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H I S T O RY 



OF THE 



Church in Burlington 



NEW JERSEY; 



COMPEISIIvG THE FACTS AIsD IXCIDE^'TS OF isEARLY 
TWO HUXDEED YEAES, FEOM OEIGINAL, 
COKTEMPOEANEOUS SOUECES. 



BY THE 

Rev, GEORGE MORGAN HILLS, D. J)., 

u 

EECTOK OF ST. MAKY'S PARISH, 
AND DEAN or THE CONVOCATION OP BURLINGTON. 



TEENTON, K. J.: 

■OTLLIAM S. SHARP, PEINTEE. 
1876. 




Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by 
GEOKGE MOEGAN HILLS, 
In the OfBce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 



THIS VOLUME 

IS INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF 

THE EEV. JOHN TALBOT, M. A., 

FOUNDER AND FIRST RECTOR OF THE CHURCH IN BURLINGTON. 

WHO, AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF MISSIONARY TOIL, 

WITH CEASELESS, BUT INEFFECTUAL, ENTREATIES 

THAT A BISHOP MIGHT BE GIVEN TO AMERICA, 

WAS INDUCED TO RECEIVE CONSECRATION 

FROM A LINE OF NONJURORS, IN ENGLAND ; 

AND RETURNED TO BURLINGTON, 
WHERE, AFTER THREE YEARS MORE OF MINISTRATION, 
FOLLOWED BY TWO OF INHIBITION, 
HE DIED, AND WAS BURIED 

WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE CHURCH WHICH HE BUILT, 
NOVEMBER, A. D. 1727. 



PREFACE. 



THIS work is a series of papers, arranged in clironological 
order, with extracts, notes, and occasional explanations. 
Headings, w^here they did not exist, have generally been given, 
as a kind of introduction to what follows. 

The first Parochial Register — a folio, bound in parchment — 
begun in 1702, by the Founder of the Parish, and continued, 
by successive rectors, for a hundred and thirty-four years, is still 
in possession. The paper is coarse and discolored, but its 
records are as legible as when they were first made. 

From 1720 — the year when Mr. Talbot left America, not 
expecting to return — there are no entries in it until after he 
ceased to officiate; which leads to the belief that his acts after 
his consecration, were recorded in a book exclusively his own; 
and which may possibly be traced among the legal representatives 
of Thomas Herbert, a son of his wife by a former marriage, in 
the AVest Indies. 

From 1733, the entries are continuous till 1836, when the rest 
of the book is left blank, and the next records are found in 
a new and modern volume, beginning with 1853 — thus leaving 
a hiatus of seventeen years. 

With the Minutes of the Vestry, the Parish has not been so 
fortunate. Three or four Churchmen of Burlington aver, that 
many years ago, they saw the first book of these ; and they 







PREFACE. 



mention two or three things which sustain their assertion; yet 
Bishop Doanc, in an appendix to his sermon, preached at the 
consecration of old St. Mary's Church, in 1834, alludes to 
" 1784," as the earliest year to which the records then in pos- 
session, extended." The present Minutes reach no further back 
than 183G — hence, two books, at least, are now wanting. 

Regret for these losses is lessened by having copies of letters 
from the early Missionaries and others, some of which have been 
taken from the " Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Histor- 
ical Society," printed in 1851 ; and others, from the Lambeth, 
Fulham, and S. P. G. MSS., procured in 1836, by the late 
Row Dr. Francis L. Haw'ks, and kindly furnished by tlieir 
authorized custodian, the Rev. Dr. AVilliam Stevens Perry. 

The extracts from Wills — except in two or three instances, 
where it is otherwise stated— were made from the originals in 
the Office of the Secretary of State, at Trenton, N. J. The orig- 
inal MS. of the sermon preached at the funeral of Mrs. Talbot, 
was received from descendants of the Rev. Colin Campbell, by 
the present rector of St. Mary's, after its absence from Burling- 
ton for more than a hundred years ! 

Xo further sources of information are named in this preface, 
because, in every other case, an acknowledgment of its author- 
ship is made with the contribution. 

Where the spelling, abbreviations, capitals, punctuation, or 
lack of it, are extraordinary, it is because the originals have 
been minutely followed. 

The reader will please keep in mind, that up to September, 
1752, tlie legal year began with the 25th of March, the Feast 
of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 

G. M. H. 



St. Mary's Rectory, Burlington, N. .J., 
Feast of the Purification, 1876. 



HISTORY. 



THE FIEST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT OF BEELIXGTOX. 



Among other purchasers of the West-Jersey lands," says 
Samuel Smith, in his History of the Colony of Nova-Csesaria, 
or Xew Jersey,'^ printed in Burlington, in 1765, ^^were two 
companies, one made up of some friends in Yorkshire, (as 
hinted in the concessions,) the other of some friends in London ; 
who each contracted for considerable shares, for which they had 
patents. In 1677, commissioners (agreeable to expectation 
given) were sent by the proprietors, with power to buy the 
lands of the natives ; to inspect the rights of such as claimed 
property, and to order the lands laid out; and in general to 
administer the government, pursuant to the concessions: These 
commissioners were Thomas Olive, Daniel Wills, John Kinsey, 
John Penford, Joseph Helmsley, Robert Stacy, Benjamin Scott, 
Richard Guy, and Thomas Foulke. They came in the Ke72t, 
Gregory Marlow, master, being the second ship from London, 
to the western parts : After a tedious passage, they arrived at 
Xew-Castle, the 16th of the 6th month, O. S. King Charles 
the second, in his barge, pleasuring on the Thames, came along 
side, seeing a great many passengers, and informed whence they 
Vv ere bound, asked if they were all quakers, and gave them his 
blessing. They landed their passengers, two hundred and thirty 
in number, about Rackcon creek, where the Swedes had some 



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PIISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



scattering habitations; but they were too numerous to be all 
provided for in houses; some were obliged to lay their beds 
and furniture in cow stalls, and appartments of that sort.'' 

>f: "Most of the passengers in this ship were of those 
called Cjuakers ; some of good estates in England. The com- 
missioners had before left them, and were by this time got to a 
})iace called Chygoes Island, f (afterwards Burlington) their 
business being to treat with the Indians about the land there, 
and to regulate the settlements, having not only the proprietors^ 
but Governor Andros's commission for that purpose. '' 

The two parties agreed to unite in settling a town. The 
commissioners employed Xoble, a surveyor, who came in the 
first ship, to divide the spot. After the main street was ascer- 
tained, he divided the land on each side into lots ; the eastern- 
most among the Yorkshire proprietors, the other among the 
Londoners : To begin a settlement, ten lots of nine acres each, 
l>:>unding on the west, were laid out; that done, some passen- 
gers from Wickaco, chiefly those concerned in the Yorkshire 
tenth, arrived the latter end of October. The London com- 
missioners also employed Xoble, to divide the part of the island 
yet unsurveyed, between the ten London proprietors, in the 
manner beforementioned : The town thus by mutual consent 



t Smith's foot-note pays: "From Chygoe, an Indian sachem, who lived 
tliere." The Eev. Wm. Allen Johnson, in a lecture delivered at Lil>rary 
Hall, Burlington, February 14tli, 1870, say^ : '•' C'hygoe is not an Indian name, 
hut it is the spelling in English, as near as may" be, of the FrencI- v 
Jegou. An assertiiin, or conjecture, or possibly an imperfectly nn-: 
tradition, embodied by that usually careful historian, Samuel Sniith, h; - c<.. 
lilindly copied by all other Avriters. In his curious suit at Upland Conn, 
against Thomas Wriglit and Godfrey Hancock, two of the earlv F':_l:-b 
settlers of Burlington, Pierre Jegou declarer 'that in 1668 he obtaint 
Gov. Carteret a grant of land called Leasy Point, Iving over _ ^ 
Matinagconi Island and_ Burlington, to settle himself there, and buikl ami 
keep a liouse of entertainment, for tlie accommodation of travellers : vrhicii 
he did, and continued there till 1670, when he was plundered and uiteiiv 
ruined by the Indians, as h v:ell hnovra to all the v:orld {.') but that ii hath 
come to pass, by tlie arrival of these nev: comers, called Quackers, out of Ena- 
hand, these defendants, Thomas Wright and Godfrey Hancock, have violennV 
entered upon your Plaintifi"'s said land, and there have, bv force, planted corn, 
mowed hay, made fences, cut timber for houses, etc., liot-withstandin- th. : 
they were forewarned by your IMaintifl''s friend, Henry Jacobs, in the pre-enct- 
of Capt. Edward Cantwcil, and afterward by ye IMaintifi' summoned before 
ye Magistrates of Burlington, avIio making no end of it, ilie ca.-e was removed 
here before your "Wor.-liips.' Justice triumphed, and Jegou gained his suit.'" 



IX BURLIXGTON. 



9 



laid out, the commissioners gave it the name first of Xew- 
Beverley, then Bridlington, but soon changed it to Burlington.'^t 

:^ >|; * >K >ii >i< >i< 

Among the latter/^ in this ship, was one Marshall, a car- 
penter, particularly serviceable in fitting up habitations for the 
new comers ; but it being late in the fall when they arrived, 
the winter was much spent before the work was begun ; in the 
interim they lived in wigwams, built after the manner of the 
Indians. Indian corn and venison, supplied by the Indians^ 
was their chief food : These people were not then much cor- 
rupted with strong liquors, but generally very friendly and help- 
ful to the English." '^Having traced this ship's company into 
winter quarters, the next in course is the Willing Mind, John 
Xewcomb commander; she arrived from London, in Xovember^ 
and dropt anchor at Elsingburgh ; brought about sixty or seventy 
passengers: Some settled at Salem, others at Burlington:'^ 
* ^ * ''In this year also arrived the Flie-Boat 
Martha, of Burlington, (Yorkshire) sailed from Hull the latter 
end of summer, with one hundred and fourteen passengers, 
designed to settle the Yorkshire tenth * * ^ 

^'In one of these ships, or about this time, arrived John Kinsey, 
then a young man ; his father one of the commissioners afore 
mentioned, dying on his arrival,! the care of his family fell 
to him: he was afterwards a man of distinguished services, in 
several public stations ; and his son after him, of the same name, 
the late chief justice of Pennsylvania, must be long remembered 
by many in both provinces." 

FEIEXDS' MONTHLY MEETINGS SETTLED. 

The first minute in the Friends' MS. Book, is this: — 
" Since by the good Providence of god many friends with 
their families have transported themselves into this Province of 

T From Bridlington, Yorkshire, England — the rapid utterance of the first 
syllable, ^\-itli a long r, making it sound as though spelled Burlington. There 
IS no town in England spelled Bu/'lington, G. 3i. H. 

i The first recorded burial in the Friends' Book, now (1876) in the keeping 
of Packard F. Mott, of Burlington, is this : " John Kinfey Allias Kelfey Latte 
of Hadnam, in Hartfortflieere being taken w*^ a violent feavor & Payne 
in his Bowles about 8 days Pafsed out of y^ Body ye ll^'a of y« 8'^^ mo^'^- 
^ was Layd in y^ ground y^ 14^^ of y® fame, 1677.'' G. M. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



^^cst Xew Jersey the said friends in those upper parts have 
found it needfull according to our practice in the place wee came 
from to Settle Monthly Meetings for the well ordering the affairs 
of y'' Church it was agreed that accordingly it should be done 
■& accordingly it was done the 15'^' of y'^ 5 mo^^' 1678." 

THE FIRST SHIP AT BUELIXGTOX. 

Tlie first ship that came so far up the Delaware, was tlie 
Shield, Captain Towels, from Hull, which arrived at Burling- 
ton in the 10th month, O. S., 1678. '^Against Coaquanock, 
(the Indian name of the place where Philadelphia now stands,) 
being a bold shore, she went so near in turning, that part of the 
tackling struck the trees; some on board then remarked it was 
a fine spot for a town : A fresh gale brought her to Burling- 
ton: She moored to a tree,t and the next morning the people 
came ashore on the Ice, so hard had the river suddenly frozen." 
— Smithes History. 

THE friends' BURYIXG-GROUXD. 

The ^^3d" record in the Friends' MS. Book of Minutes is 
this : At y^ Monthly Meeting in Burlington the 5^'^' day of 
y^ 7th j^Qth ji gjg Friends took into Consideration y*" paling in 
of the burying ground." 

At the Friends' Monthly Meeting on the 1'^ of y*" 5^^ mo"' 
1680," it was ordered, "after harvist to fence in y^ burying 
place aforementioned." 

THE FIRST FRIEXDS' MEETIXG-HOUSE. 

At the ''Men's ^Monthly Meeting held at the house of Thos. 
Gardiner y« 5"' of y*^ 12"' mo 1682," ''It is ordered y^ a 
meeting house be built according to a draft of six scjuare build- 
ing of Forty feet square from out to out for which he is to 
have 160 £ wh y'^ meeting engageth to see y^ persons paid y' 
shall disburse y'^ same unto Francis Collings." 

On the "2^^ of ye 1^^ mo 168!," among a long list of sub- 
scribers we find, "Daniel Leeds £4, William Budd £3." 



I Tradition .«ays, Tlie enormous sycamore, still standing (1876) on th.e river 
Lank, nearly in jront of the residence of C. l\o.ss Grubb, 



IN BURLINGTON. 



11 



The site of this meeting-house was just back of the present 
one (1876) in High street. The hexagonal structure had a 
roof which sloped upwards to a smaller hexagon ; and that, 
again, to a second roof, which terminated, rather abruptly, in a 
point. A painting, still extant, represents its ground enclosed ; in 
front, with a high tight fence, of planks ; at the sides, and in 
the rear, to the line of Wood street, with straight rail fences, 
dividing it into three lots, in the middle one of which, two cows 
are reposing. These grounds have been the Friends' Burial- 
PJace, from that day to this. 

AGITATIOX IN THE COLONY. 

In February, 1688-9, information was received, from Great 
Britain, of the flight and dethronement of James II, and the 
grant of the crown to AVilliam and Mary.-f The agitation 
everywhere in the colonies was intense. Some adhered tena- 
ciously to the fallen dynasty. They were mostly men of high 
standing, and great personal influence. A Jacobite party was 
thus formed. Dr. Daniel Coxe, of London, the greatest pro- 
prietor of West-Jersey,^' says Smith, was at this time Governor, 
"having appointed Edward Hunloke his deputy; some time 
afterwards a commission was sent to John Tatham, who being a 
Jacobite ; and as such by principle disqualified, him the Assem- 
bly rejected.'' 

JOHN tatham's land. 
" March 1689. Surveyed then for John Tatham a lot of land 



T Chief among the measures adopted to secure this transfer to the Prince of 
Orange, was a new Oath of Allegiance. The old oath implied hereditary 
right. It was therefore altered to read, " I, A. B., do sincerely promise and 
swear to bear true allegiance to their JVIajesties King William and Queen 
Mary." This oath was taken, in March 1688-9, by both Houses of Parlia- 
ment, with the exception of several lords spiritual and temporal, who rather 
than take it, withdrew from the house. The nonjuring prelates were Sancrofi, 
Archbishop of Canterbury, Turner, Bishop of EJy, Lake of Chichester, Ken, 
of Bath and Wells, White, of Peterborough, Lloyd, of Norwich, Thomas, of 
Worcester, and Frampton, of Gloucester. Their example, in declining the 
oath, was followed by about 400 other clergy, to say nothing of the laity, 
most, if not all, of whom were honest and peaceable, and would have gone on 
in the quiet discharge of their duties, had no fresh oath been required. On 
the first of February, 1690-1, Sancroft, Turner, Ken, White and Frampton — 
the other nonjuring bishops having died meanwhile — were, by Act of Parlia- 
ment, deprived of their Sees. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



in Burlington, ait the North East corner of the Island, hegininfj 
att the end of the Street which bounds the Waiter Lotts by the 
Side of the Street leading by the Creek Side, from the River to 
broad Street and runs from the said end of the Street by the 
Creek Street fivety seaven Perches and a halfe to broad Street, 
then by broad Street fourty five perches to a Stake, then about 
North by East Sixty one perches and a halfe to the Said Street, 
bounding the Watter Lotts. Then by the said Street, thirty four 
perches and a halfe to the first. Being surveyed for fourteen 
ackers. 

Also att the same time, a loatter lott begining att the said 
Creek Street by the River, and runs in breadth, by the river a 
hundred foot continueing the same breadth Southwards to the 
next Street. 

Both these Surveyed by Symon Charles and after Resur- 
veyed by me. 

Daniell Leeds." 

friends' marriage certificate. 

Whearas there has been an Intention of Marriage duly 
Published according to the Laws of this Province of West New 
Jersey in America, & also at two severall Monthly Meetings of 
the Pc'ople Caird Quakers held at Burlington, in the Province 
afibrs'^ Between Robert Wheeler of the Town & Province 
atfors'^ Baker, & Rebecca Kenner of y® same, Spinster, And 
upon deliberate consideration & enquiry their being nothing to 
obstruct their proceedings therein (they being found clear & 
free of any other Engagement of this Nature) and having the 
consent of their friends & Relations in these parts of the world, 
they were allowed to consumate their Intended Marriage as in y"" 
fear of God they should see meete. 

These are Therefore to Certifie all persons whome it 
may concern that for y'^- full accomplishing of their s'' Intentions 
this second day of y"^ fourth month Called June, in y^ year of 
(/ Lord one thousand six hundred ninety & two They y"" s'^ 
Robert Wheeler & Rebecca Kenner appeard in a publick Assem- 
l;ly of y*' afforesd people held in their Meeting house at Burling- 
ton affor.V' And in a solemn Manner lie the Robert Wheeler 



IN BURLIXGTOX. 



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taking the s'^ Rebecca Kenner by the hand did openly declare 
as follo\yeth, fFrieuds in the fear of the Lord & in the presence of 
you his people, I take this my fPriend Rebecca Kenner to be 
my AA'ife, promising to be unto her a faithful! & loving husband 
uutill it shall please y*" Lord to seperate us. And then & there 
in the s'^ Assembly the s'^ Rebecca Kenner did in like manner 
declare as follo^yeth, fPriends in the fear of the lord and in the 
presence of you his people I take this my friend Robert Wheeler 
to be my husband, promising to be unto him a loving and faith- 
fnll wife, untill Death shall seperate [us.] 

AxD the s'^ Robert Wheeler and Rebecca, his now Wife as a 
further confirmation thereof did then & there to these presents 
set their hands — And ^ye whose names are hereunto subscribed 
being present amongst others at the solemnizing of their s'^ mar- 
riage & subscription in manner afibrs'^ as Witnesses thereunto 
have also to these presents subscribed our names the day year 
above Written— 1692. 

Robert Wheet.ek, 
Rebecca Wheeler. 

John Budd 

Wm Budd Thos Gladwin 

Thomas Gardiner William Budd Jun"" 
Richard Guy 

Edward HrxLOKE, Justice 
Isaac Marriott 

Mary Budd 
Ann Budd 
Rebecca DeCou 
INIary Myers 
Rachell Marshalle 
Pricilla Love'^ 



Charles Reade 
Bernard Devenish 
Tho : Peachee 
Wm. Righton 
Joseph Addams 
Henrv Burcham 



Sarah Righton 
Mary Peachee 
Sibbilla Righton 
Elizabeth Gardiner Jr, 



-Friends' 3IS. Records. 



GEORGE KEITH. 



In 1691, George Keith, a very eminent Quaker preacher and 
writer, who was widely known in the colonies, as well as in 
Great Britain, proposed and urged some stricter regulations 
among the Friends. He made complaints against some of them 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



who were in the magistracy, at Philadelphia, for having execu- 
ted the penal laws against malefactors, alleging that it was 
inconsistent with their tenets; and he charged some of their 
most approved preachers with false doctrine. Such a violent 
controversy was thus awakened that, on the 20th of April, 1692, 
at a Meeting in Philadelphia, a '^Declaration^' was drawn up 
against him, wherein both he and his conduct were publicly 
disowned. This Declaration was confirmed at the General 
Yearly Meeting,^' held in Burlington, on the 7th of July fol- 
lowing. Mr. Keith drew off a large number with him,t and set 
up separate meetings in various places. His adherents called 
themselves Christian Quakers — but they were generally called 
Kcithians. — Proud'' s History, Vol. I, pp. 363-7. 

OFFICERS OF THE TOW^N. 

'' By vertue of an Act of Assembly, formed and contrived 
for the Government of this Town of Burlington at a Sessions 
held in the said Town the 3d of October 1693 the Freeholders 
and Inhabitants of the said Town being Convened and Assem- 
bled the 5th day of April 1694 in pursuance of the Powers and 
Priviledges Granted unto them in and by the said Act and in 
conformity to the same due regard being had to ye Qualification 
of the Electors as prescribed and Limitted by the said Act Did 
Choose & Elect these officers following : 

Richard Basnet, Burgesse,or Chief Magistrate for y^ town of 
Burlington. 

John Tatham, Recorder. James Marshall 

James Hill 

George Hutcheson, Treasurer. James Hill, Town Clerk. 



t "The Quakers," says Bishop Burnet, in his History of the Church, (Vol. 
Ill "have had a great breach made among them by one George Keith, a 
>ojtcliman, Avitli whom I had my education at Aberdeen; he was esteemed the 
most learned man that ever was in that sect ; he was well versed both in the 
Oriental tongues, in Philosophy, and Mathematics. After he had been above 
thirty years m liigh e.-tccm nmong them, he was sent to Pennsylvania to have 
the chief direction of their youth. In those parts, he said he first discovered 
that which had been always denied to him, or so disguised that he did not 
suspect It ; it appeared to him that they Avere Deists, and that they turned the 
whole doctrine of the Christian Religion into allegories ; chiefly those which 
relate to the death and resurrection of Christ, and the reconciliation of sinners 
to God by virtue of his Cross ; he, being a true Christian, set himself with 
great zeal against this." 



I Councellors. 



m BURLINGTOJN". 



15 



"Bernard Devonish, Serjeant Clerk of the Market Cryer of 
the Town and Officer to view the Assise of Bread & Liquors 
& to supervise and Examine Weights and Measures. 

" Then it was Ordered and Concluded by unanimous Consent 
that the Town of Burli gton should Assert and Maintain their 
Title and right to the Island in the River Delaware commonly 
called Stacy's alias Mattinecunk Island." First Entry in Town 
Minutes. 

A buryi>n'g-place for christians. 

On the 13th of July, 1695, a piece of land was bought; the 
particulars of which are given in these portions of its Deed : 

'^Whereas several persons Inhabitants in & about Burlington 
together with John Tatham Edward Hunloke & Nathaniel 
Westland have agreed together to purchase a peece or parcel 1 of 
Land in Burlington for the Conveniency of a burying place for 
themselves and also free for all other Christian People who shall 
hereafter be minded therein to bury their dead And for that 
intent & purpose have respectively disbursed or agreed to disburse 
into the hands of the said John Tatham Edward Hunloke & 
Nathaniel Westland (as ffeoffees in Trust) certaine sumes of 
money for the purchasing of said peece or parcell of Land as 
may be convenient & for the ffenceing & fitting the same Land 
Avhen purchased for a burying place now WITNESSETH this 
INDENTURE that for & in consideration of the Sume of ffive 
pounds Currant silver money Robert Wheeler hath granted 
& sold unto the said John Tatham Edward Hunloke & 
Nathaniel Westland their Heirs & Successors forever one peece 
or parcell of Land in the Island of Burlington aforesaid being 
the Towne Lott or house Lott Conteyning Two Roods and six- 
teene perches as the same is now laid forth and surveyed begin- 
ning att a stake sett up being corner to Jonathan Wests lot on 
the North by Wood street And runs southward in ffront by 
Wood street ffive perches and Three feet and soe back the same 
breadth being in Length Eighteene perches and an halfe and 
bounded by the Lott of John Stoaks to the South to have 
AND TO hold the said Lott of Land unto the said John Tatham 
Edward Hunloke & Nathaniel Westland their Heirs and Sue- 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



cessors forever wlio shall hereafter from time to time successively 
be nominated & chosen by the major part of the Persons their 
Heirs and Successors Convened <Sz successively to be convened 
in the sd granted premises upon the decease or removall of the 
<aid John Tatham, Edward Hunloke Nathaniel Westland or 
any of them as succeeding ffeoffees in Trust on the behalfe of 
the rest convened & to be convened for the sd burying place 
which is to beffree for all Christian People who shall be minded 
therein to bury their dead.'^ 

EESTEICTIOXS OF U^'LICEXSED PERSOXS. 

April 20th 169G, at a Town meeting, ^^it was put to ye vote 
whether any person not having a Lycence shall expose & sell 
any strong Liquors by the pot at fair Times and it past in the 
negative/*^ It was likewise put to the vote, whether any Mer- 
chant or other unlicenced person shall sell any quantity of Pum 
or Brandy less than a pint and it past in the Negative ; And it 
was Ordered That if any Merch^ or other unlycenced person shall 
sell a less quantity than a Pint of the said Liquors that then 
such person so offending shall forfeit Ten shillings for every 
such Lesser quantity so sold the one half to the Burgesse and 
the other half to the informer : It was also Ordered by the sd 
meeting that no person shall ride a Gallop during the fair time 
betwixt the market house and the water side.'^ Town Minutes. 

ACT AGAIXST WAXDEEIXG XEGEOES. 

At a meeting of the Burgess and Inhabitants of the Town of 
Burlington, Aug loth 1698, it was enacted, " That all and every 
Xegroe that after the Publication hereof, shall be found wandr- 
ing about within the Limits of the sayd Town on first days 
during the Time of Religious meetings and not attending upon 
any such meeting or abiding at their respective homes or quar- 
ters, Shall be put in the stocks, and there continue till the said 
meetings are over, And that all & every Negro or Negroes that 
on First Day Nights after sun set shall be found wandring abroad 
or Absenting themselves from their Respective homes or Quar- 
ters, shall be put in y^ stocks there to continue all that Night and 
■ .n the next day be whipt at their Masters Charge." Town Minutes. 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



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DESCRIPTIOX OF BUELIXGTOX. 

Gabriel Thomas^ in his quaint little History, printed in 1698, 
thus writes: — '^Burlington is now the chiefest Town in that 
Countrey, by reason that the late Governor Cox, who bought 
that Countrey of Edward BiUiiig, encouraged and promoted that 
Town chiefly, in settling his Agents and Deputy- Governors 
there, which brings their Assemblies and chief Courts to be 
kept there ; and, by that means it is become a very famous 
Town, having a delicate great Market- House, where they keep 
their Market : It hath a noble and spacious Hall over head, 
where their Sessions is kept, having the Prison adjoyning to it. 
There are many Fair and Great Brick Houses on the outside of 
the Town which the Gentry have built there for their Countrey 
Houses, besides the Great and Stately Palace of John TateJiarn 
Esq ; which is pleasantly situated on the Xorth side of the 
Toicn, having a very fine and delightful Garden and Orchard 
adjoyning to it, wherein is variety of Fruits, Herbs, and Flowers; 
as Roses, Tulips, July-Floicers, Sun Floicers, Carnations, and 
many more. There are kept also in this Famous Town several 
Fairs every Year; and as for Provisions, viz. Bread, Beer, Beef, 
Pork, Cheese, Butter and most sorts of Fruit, here is great Plenty 
and very Cheap. There are also two handsom Bridges to come in 
and out of the Town called London and York- Bridges, The Town 
stands in an Island, the Tide flowing cj^uite round about it." 

THE SOCIETY FOR PEOPAGATIXG THE GOSPEL. 

'' The increase of religion in the colonies, and the moral culture 
of the inhabitants, had been the subjects of many private 
schemes and individual exertions which resulted in little benefit ; 
and it vras found necessary, to make the endeavors effectual, to 
obtain a charter for a society calculated especially to subserve 
the purposes in view. In consequence of a representation made 
by Dr. Thomas Tenison (then Archbishop of Canterbury) to 
King William III, a charter was obtained, bearing date June 
16th, 1701, incorporating several persons distinguished for their 
stations and virtues, by the title of " The Society for Propaga- 
ting the Gospel in Foreign Parts." The proper officers of the 
Society were chosen on the 27th of June, and measures were im- 

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raediately adopted for the obtain mcnt of funds and perfecting the 
other necessary arrangements.'^ Whitehead's Earli/ History of 
Perth Amboy. 

MEMORIAL FRvOM REV. MR. KEITH. 

Shortly after the f«)andation of the S. P. G., George Keith, 
who had returned to Eiiodand in 1694, and received Orders in 
the Church of Engkmd, from the Bishop of London, in 1700, 
prepared a Memorial," from which we quote : 

To the Secretary of the Venerable Society. 

Worthy Sir : — According to your desire I send you this 
short Memorial of the State of Religion in such parts of x^orth 
America where I have travelled, and which I can give of my 
own knowledge, especially in relation to Quakerism, and some 
other things by letters from my friends there. In Pennsyl- 
vania, when I came to live there, which was in the year 1689, 
by the number of men and women that used to come to the 
yearly meetings from the several parts of that province, and 
from the West and East Jerseys, we did commonly reckon there 
might be at least fifteen hundred Quakers, two hundred of which 
might perhaps belong to the West and East Jerseys. After the 
breach that began in the year 1691, betwixt a party of Quakers 
that joined with me in opposing some of their errors, (especially 
their notion of the sufficiency of the light within every man to 
salvation without anything else) & another Party that joyned 
with Thomas Lloyd then Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania & 
a great Preaclier among the Quakers, all the Meetings in those 
Provinces above mentioned were broken, and they set up Separate 
Meetings one from another, on the account of different Principles 
of Religion (especially in relation to the notion aforesaid * 

, which I & my Friends judged a plain opposition to Chris- 
tianity & an Establishing of Deism in its place) so that when I 
came from Pennsylvania to England wdiich was in the year 
1694, I left behind me fourteen or fifteen Meetings in Pennsyl- 
vania, West & East Jerseys that met apart from the Quakers 
'''' '''' to the number of above Five hundred ]3ersons, 

" Since there hath been a Church of England Congregation set 
np at Philadelphia [1695] the Chief Town in Pennsylvania a 



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considerable number of those that did come off with me on the 
account of the Quakers Errors are joyned with the Church of 
England both Men & Women of good account, & others of them 
keep up their Separate Meetings particularly one at Philadel- 
phia & some of them have joyned themselves with the Anabap- 
tists in those Parts, as I have had particular Information by 
letters from my friends there, year after year. It would be of 
great service, as I judge, if one or two more Church of England 
Ministers were sent to Pennsylvania ; it is not to be doubted, 
but they would not only get hearers, but such as would join 
Avith them to make up Congregations. 

In West Jersey that lyes on the east side of Delaware Piver, 
I have several friends that joyned with me in the Separation 
from the Quakers, especially about Croswicks, which is about 
Fifteen or Sixteen miles from Burlington, (the chief Town in 
West Jersey lying by Delaware Hiver ;) if a Church of England 
Minister were sent thither it is not to be doubted but he would 
be received and joyned with, both by some of my friends and 
some other sober persons. The most proper place to set up a 
Church would be at Burlington, and another at Croswicks 
aboveuientioned. 

" There is not one Church of England as yet in either West 
or East Jersey, the more is the pity ; and except in Two or 
Three Towns there is no face of any public w^orship of any sort, 
but People live very mean like Indians. In New York, there 
are but few Quakers, & some that were, are come off & joyned 

with the Church there. One Mrs. , a friend of mine, 

is lately deceased, but before her death w^as baptized <fe had the 
Lord's Supper administered to her, & got her Children baptized, 
whereof I had a late Account in a letter from one of my friends 
there, now a zealous Churchman. * There 

is no Church of England in all Long Island, nor in all that 
great Continent of New York Province, except at New York 
Town." 

ANNA EEGINA. 

On the 8th of March, 1701, King William died, and was 
succeeded by Queen Anne ; who," says Hume, " ascended 



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the. throne, to the general satisfaction of all parties." Even 
the Jacobites/^ he adds, ^'seemed pleased with her elevation. 
She had been taught to cherish warm sentiments of the torie-. 
whom she considered as the friends of monarchr, and the 
true sons of the Church. She was zealously 

devoted to the Church of England."' 

SUKREN'DER OF THE GOVER^yAIEXT TO QUEEX AXXE. 

''On the 17th of April, 1702,'' says Smith's History, the 
several proprietors of East and AVest Xew- Jersey, in America, 
did in person, present a deed of surrender by them executed 
under their hands and seals, to her ^Majesty in council, and did 
acknowledge the same to be their act and deed : and humbly 
desire her Majesty to accept the same, that it might be enrolled 
in the court of chancery, whereby they did surrender their 
power of the government of those plantations : AVliieh her 
Majesty graciously accepted, and was pleased to order, as it is 
hereby ordered, that the same be enrolled in her Majesty's said 
high court of chancery; and the said instruments are to be 
delivered to Mr. Attorney General, who is to take care that the 
same be enrolled accordingly.'' 

THE FIEST MISSIOXAEY OF THE S. P. O. 

The familiarity of ?>Ir. Keith — as exhibited in his ^'^lemo- 
rial" — with the state of Religion in this country, led the Society 
for Propagating the Gospel to appoint him as their iirst 
missionary. His Jouexal of Travels from Xew-Hampshire 
to Caratuck on the Continent of Xorth-America,"" printed in 
London, ''by Joseph Doicning. fov JBrab. Ai/Imer at the Tlvrce- 
Pigcoihs, over-against the Royal-E.-cchange in Cornhill, 1706.*' 
begins thus : 

''The Twenty eighth Day of ^42^/'// 1702, I sailed from Coicts 
in the Zsle of ^Vight, in one of the Queens Ships, called the dnrh- 
rion, whereof Captain i?e/-/ie was Commander, who was very Civil 
to me, bound for Boston in Xeic -En gland ; and by the good Provi- 
dence of God we arriv'd at Boston the Eleventh day of June, our 
whole time of Passage being Six Weeks and one Day. Colonel 
Dudleii Governour of New-England^ and Colonel Povie Deputy 



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21 



Governour, and Mr. Jlorris, with all whom we sailed in tlie 
same ship, were so generous and kind both to Mr. Patrich Gor- 
don Missionary for Long-Island, and to me, that at their desire 
we did Eat at their Table all the YovaQ;e on free cost. 

^^At my Arrival the Reverend !Mr. Samuel Miles, and the 
Reverend Mr. Christopher Bridge, both Ministers of the Church 
of England Congregation at Boston, did kindly receive me and 
the tiL'o ministers in company with me, and we lodg'd, and were 
kindly entertained in their Houses, during our abode at Boston. 

June 14, 1702, being Sunday, at the request of the above- 
named Ministers of the Church of England, I Preached in the 
Queens Chappel at Boston, on Eph. 2. 20, 21, 22, where was a 
large Auditory, not .only of Church People, but of many others. 

" June 28, Sunday. The Reverend Mr. John Tcdbot, who 
had been Chaplain in the Centurion, Preached there. 

" By the advice of my good Friends at Boston, and especially 
of Colonel Joseph Dudley, Governour of Boston Colony, I chose 
the abovenamed Mr. John Talbot to be my Assistant and Asso- 
ciate in my Missionary Travels and Services, he having freely 
and kindly offered himself, and whom I freely and kindly 
received, and with the first occasion I wrote to the Society, 
praying them, to allow of him to be my Fellow-Companion 
and Associate in Travels, &c., which they accordingly did,t 
and indeed Divine Providence did well order it, for he proved 
a very loving and faithful Associate to me, and was very helpful 
to me in all respect, and was well approved and esteemed every 
where, both with respect to his Preaching and Living, in the 
several places where we Travelled.'^ 

EXLAEGIXG THE CHEISTIAX BUEIAL-GR0IJ2sD. 

On the 16th of September, 1702, Thomas Revell, Executor 
in Trust of Elizabeth Tatham late of Burlington AViddow 
deceased for "Three pounds Currant Silver money conveyed 
to " Nathaniel Westland Robert Wheeler & Hugh Huddy as 
Ifeoffees in Trust" a Lott" of land " Containing fforty foot in 



T The appointment of Mr. Talbot as a Missionary of the Society, bears date 
September 18th, 1702. 



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front and bounded on the North side by a Lott late purchased 
from Robert Wheeler for a burying ground on the South side 
by the Land of John Hollinshead on the West by the Land of 
the late William Myers deceased, & on the East by a publick 
street called Wood street, for the Enlargeing the aforesaid bury- 
ing ground." ''Several Persons (Inhabitants in & about Bur- 
lington) together with Nathaniel Westland, Robert Wheeler & 
Hugh Pluddy disbursed certaine Sumes of money for the pur- 
chasino; of the same Land & for the ifencing & Repairing of 
the whole for a Burying ground," " for all Christian People who 
shall be desirous to bury their dead therein." Original Deed. 

THE MISSI02sARIES AERIYE IN BUELINGTON. 

" October 29, 1702. We arrived at Burlington in West- Jersey . 
November 1, Sunday. Yfe preached in the Town-House at 
Burlington, (the Church not being then built,) and we had a 
great Auditory of diverse sorts, some of the Church, and some 
of the late Converts from Quakerism. Mr. Talbot preached 
before Xoon, and I in the Afternoon. My Text was, John 17. 
3. — [_Ancl this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true 
God, and Jesus Christ, lohom thou hast sent.'] Col. Hamilton, 
then Governour of West-Jersey, was present both Forenoon and 
Afternoon, and at his Invitation we dined with him. 

November 3. At Burlington I detected the Quakers Errors 
out of their great xluthors, George Fox his great Mystery, and 
Edward Burroughs Folio Book, and others, having given the 
Quakers Preachers Notice two Days before, to come and 
defend their Principles and Authors ; but. none of them would 
appear in tlie Cause." Keith^s Journal. 

A ^fEETlNG OF THE CLERGY, IN NEW YORK. 

''November 8, Sunday [1702.] I preached in the Church of. 
Philadelphia, at the Minister's Request, on 2 Pet. 3. 15, 16, in 
the Afternoon. l\Ir. Talbot preached there in the Forenoon. 
And again I preached anotlier Sermon, on the same, that Even- 
ing, after six a Clock, (it being usual once a Month to preach 
an Evening-Sermon in that Town.) We had a very great 



IN BURLINGTON. , 23 

Auditory, so that the Church could not contain them, but many 
stayed without and heard. 

" That Week a Meeting of the Clergy being appointed to meet 
together at New- York by general Consent, we accordingly did 
meet, being Seven in number ; at our Meeting we drew up an 
Account of the State of the Church in these American Parts of 
Pensilvania, West and East-Jersey and New- York V\:o\mce ;'f a 
Copy whereof we sent to the Honourable Society at London, 
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign PartsJ^ KeWis 
Journal. 

INSTEUCTIONS FEOM QUEEX ANNE. 

Instructions for our right trusty and well beloved Edward lord 
Cornbury, our captain general and governor in chief, in and 
over our province of Nova-Ca^saria, or New Jersey, in 
America. Given at our court at St. James's, the sixteenth 
day of November, 1702, in the first year of our reign. 

"1. With these our instructions you will receive our commis- 
sion under our great seal of Englauc], constituting you our cap- 
tain general and governor in chief of our province of New 
Jersey. 

"2. You are with all convenient speed to repair to our said 
province, and being there arrived, you are to take upon you the 
execution of the place and trust we have reposed in you, and 
forthwith to call together the following persons, wdiom we do .by 
these presents appoint and constitute members of our council in 
and for that province, viz. Edward Hunloke, Lewis Morris, 
Andrew Bowne, Samuel Jenings, Thomas Kevell, Francis 
Davenport, William Pinhorne, Samuel Leonard, George Dea- 
con, Samuel Walker, Daniel Leeds, William Sanford, and 
Robert Quarry, escjuires. 

''3. And you are with all due solemnity, to cause our said 
commission under our great seal of England, constituting you 
our captain general and governor in chief as aforesaid, to be read 
and published at the said meeting of our council, and to cause 
proclamation to be made in the several m®st publick places of 
our said province, of your being constituted by us our captain 
general and governor in chief as aforesaid. 



t This was signed by Geoege Keith, Evan Evans, Cler. Minister of 
Philadelphia, Alexander Innes, Presbyter, Edmond Mott, Chaplain of 
Her Majesty's Forces in Kew York, John Taleot, William Vesey, Eector 
of New York, John Baktow. 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



"4. AVhich being done, yon shall yourself take, and also 
administer to each of the members of our said council so 
appointed by us, the oaths appointed by act of parliament to be 
taken instead of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and the 
oath mentioned in an act, entitled, An ad to declare the altera- 
tion in the oath appointed to be taken by the act, entitled, An act 
for the further security of his majesty's person, and the succession 
of the crown in the j^rotestant line, and for extinguishing the hopes- 
of the pretended prince of Wales, and all other pretenders, and 
their open and secret abettors, and for declaring the association to 
be determined; as also the test mentioned in an act of parliament 
made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of king Charles the 
second, entitled, An act for preventing dangers ivhich may happen 
from popish recusants ; together with an oath for the due execu- 
tion of your and their places and trusts, as well with regard to 
the equal and impartial administration of justice in all causes 
that shall come before you, as otherwise, and likewise the oath 
required to be taken by governors of plantations, to do their 
utmost, that the laws relating to the plantations be observed. 

6. And whereas the inhabitants of our said province have of 
late years been unhappily divided, and by their enmity to each 
other, our service and their own welfare has been very much 
obstructed; you are therefore in the execution of our commis- 
sion, to avoid the engaging yourself in the parties which have 
been form'd amongst them, and to use such impartiality and 
moderation to all, as may best conduce to our service, and the 
good of the colony. 

^ ^ ^ ^ if. iif. ;!< 

'^51. You are to permit a liberty of conscience to all persons- 
(except papists) so they may be contented with a quiet and 
peaceable enjoyment of the same, not giving offence or scandal 
to the government. 

''52. And whereas we have been informed, that divers of our 
good subjects inhabiting th(.se parts, do make a religious scruple 
of swearing, and by reason of their refusing to take an oath in 
courts of justice and other places, are or may be liable to many 
inconveniences; our will and pleasure is, that in order to their 
ease in what they conceive to be matter of conscience, so far as 
may be consistent with good order and government, you take 
care, that an act be passed in the general assembly of our said 
province, to the like effect as that passed here in the seventh and 
eighth years of his majesty's reign, entitled. An act, that the 
solemn affinnation and declaration of the people called Quakers,. 



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25. 



shall be accepted^ instead of an oath in the usual form, and that 
the same be transmitted to us, and to our commissioners for 
trade and plantations as before directed. 

>i< >!< ^ >!< * 

'^69. You shall take especial care, that God Almighty be- 
devoutly and duly served throughout your government, the 
book of common prayer as by law established, read each Sunday, 
and holyday, and the blessed sacrament administered according 
to the rites of the church of England. 

"70. You shall be careful that the Churches already built 
there, be well and orderly kept, and that more be built, as the 
colony shall by God's blessing be improved ; and that besides aj 
competent maintenance to be assigned to the minister of each 
orthodox church, a convenient house be built at the common 
charge for each minister, and a competent proportion of land 
assigned to him, for a glebe and exercise of his industry. 

" 71. And you are to take care, that the parishes be so limitted 
and settled, as you shall find most convenient for the accomplish- 
ing this good work. 

"'72. You are not to prefer any minister to any ecclesiastical 
benefice in that our province, without a certificate from the 
right reverend father in God the lord bishoj) of London, of his 
being conformable to the doctrine and discipline of the church 
of England, and of a good life and conversation : And if any 
person already prefer'd to a benefice, shall appear to you to give 
scandal either by his doctrine or manners, you are to use the 
best means for the removal of him, and to supply the vacancy 
in such manner as we have directed. 

"73. You are to give order, that every orthodox minister 
within your government, be one of the vestry in his respective 
parish, and that no vestry be held without him, except in case 
of sickness, or that after the notice of a vestry summon'd, he 
omit to come. 

"74. You are to enquire whether there be any minister within 
your government, who preaches and administers the sacrament 
in any orthodox church or chapel, without being in due orders^ 
and to give account thereof to the said lord bishop of London. 

"75. And to the end the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the said 
lord bishop of London, may take place in our said province so 
far as conveniently may be, we do think fit that you give all 
countenance and encouragement to the exercise of the same, 
excepting only the collating to benefices, granting licences for 
marriages, and probate of wills, which we have reserved to you 
our governor and the commander in chief of our said province 
for the time being. 



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" 70. And you are to take especial care, that a table of mar- 
riages established by the cannons of the church of England, be 
hung up in every orthodox church, and duly observed, and you 
are to endeavor to get a law passed in the assembly of our said 
province, (if not already done) for the strict observation of the 
said table. 

^' 77. You are to take care, that drunkenness and debauchery, 
swearing and blasphemy, be discountenanced and punished : 
And for the further discountenance of vice, and encouragement 
of virtue and good living, (that by such example the infidels 
may be invited and desire to partake of the christian religion) 
you are not to admit any person to publick trusts and employ- 
ments in our said province under your government, whose ill 
fame and conversation may occasion scandal. 

;K >K 5;^ 5!< ^ 5f< 

^' 89. You shall endeavor to get a law passed for the restrain- 
ing of any inhuman severity, which by ill masters or overseers, 
may be used towards their christian servants, and their slaves, 
and that provision be made therein, that the wilful killing of 
Indians and Negroes may be punished with death, and that a 
fit penalty be imposed for the maiming of them. 

90. You are also with the assistance of the council and 
assembly, to find out the best means to facilitate and encourage 
the conversion of Xegroes and Indians, to the christian religion. 

99. Forasmuch as great inconveniencies may arise by the 
liberty of printing in our said province, you are to provide by 
all necessary orders, that no person keep any press for printing, 
nor that any book, pamphlet or other matters whatsoever be 
printed without your especial leave and license first obtained.'' 
- * * —Smith's History, pp. 230-259. 

GREAT XEED OF A BISHOP. 

3Ir. John Talbot to Mr. Richard GilUnghani. 

^^Xew York, 24 November, 1702. 

^'My Deak Friend: 

I take all opportunities to let you know that I live, and 
shall be glad to hear as much of you. Friend Keith and I 
have been above 500 miles to2:ether visitino^ the churches in 
these parts of America, viz., New England, New Hampshire, N. 
Bristol, N. London, N. York, and the Jerseys as fiir as Phila- 
delphia. ^ye preached in all churches where we came, and in 
several Dissenters' meetings such as owned the Church of 



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27 



England to be their mother church, and were willing to com- 
municate with her and to submit to her Bishops if they had 
opportunity ; I have baptized severall persons, whom Mr. Keith 
has brought over from Quakerism, and indeed in all places 
where we come, we find a great ripeness and inclination amongst 
all sorts of people to embrace the Gospel. Even the Indians 
themselves have promised obedience to the Faith, as appears by 
a conference that my Lord Corn bury the Governor here has had 
with them at Albany : five of their sachems or kings told him 
they were glad to hear that the sun shiued in England again 
since King William's Death ; they did admire at first what was 
come to us, that we should have a squaw sachem, viz.: a 
woman-king, but they hoped she would be a good mother and 
send them some to teach them religion, and establish Traffick 
among them that they might be able to purchase a coat, and not 
go to church in Bear Skins, and so they send our Queen a 
present, ten Bear Skins to make her fine, and one for a muff to 
keep her warm ; after many Presents and Compliments they 
signed the treaty and made the Covenant so sure that they said 
Thunder and Lightning should not break it on their part, if we 
did not do as the Lord Bellamont did, throw it into the sea. 
The papists have been zealous and diligent to send priests and 
Jesuits to convert these Indians to their superstitions ; 'tis 
wonderfully acted, ventured and suffered upon that design ; 
they have indeed become all things, and even turned Indians as 
it were to gain them, which I hope will provoke some of us to 
do our part for our holy faith and mother the Church of Eng- 
land. One of their Priests lived half a year in their wigwams 
(i, e. houses) without a shirt, and when he petitioned my Lord 
Bellamont for. a couple, he was not only denyed but banished; 
whereas one of ours, in Discourse with my Lord of London, 
said, ^ who did his Lordship think would come hither that had 
a dozen shirts.' If I had their language or wherewith to main- 
tain an Interpreter, it should be the first thing I should do, to 
go amongst the thickest of 'em. Mr. Keith says if he were 
younger he would learn their language and then I'm sure he 
might convert them sooner than the Heathen called Quakers- 
Indeed he is the fittest man that ever came over for this province, 



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he is a well study'd divine, a good philosopher and Preacher^ 
but above all an excellent Disputant, especially against the 
Quakers, who use to challenge all mankind formerly. Now all 
the Friends (or enemies rather) are not able to answer one 
George Keith ; he knows the Depths of Satan within them and 
all the Doublin2:s and AVindings of the Snahe in the Grass. In 
short he has become the best champion against all Dissenters, 
that the Church ever had, and he's sett up such a Light in their 
Dark places, that by God's blessing will not be putt out. The 
Clergy here have had a sort of Convocation at the Instance and 
Charge of his Excellency Col. Nicholson Governor of Virginia; 
we were but seven in all ; and a w^eek together, we sat consider- 
ing of ways and means to propagate the Gospel, and to that 
End we have drawn up a scheme of the present state of the 
Church in these provinces which you shall see when I have 
time to transcribe it, and I shall desire you to send it afterwards 
to my good brother Kemble. We have great need of a Bishop 
here to visit all the churches to ordain some, to confirm others, 
and bless all. We pray for my good Lord of London, we can- 
not have better than he whilst he lives, therefore in the mean 
time we shall be very well content with a suffragan. Mr. 
Keith's mission will be out about a year hence ; by that time I 
hope to get some tokens for my good friends and Benefactors, 
But as for myself I am so well satisfied with a prospect of doing 
good that I have no inclination to return for England; hovrever 
be so kind as to let me know how you doe, which will be a 
comfort to me in the wilderness. You know all my friends, 
pray let them, especially my mother and my sister Hannah, 
know that I am well, God be praised, and shall be glad to hear 
so much of them. I cannot write many letters, much less one 
two or three times over as when I had nothing else to do. I 
pray God bless you and all my Friends, I desire the Benefit of 
their prayers, though I cannot have that of their good Com- 
pany. I know you'll take all in good part that comes from 

" Your old Friend, 

" Joim Talbot. 
P. S. — I have many places offered me but I know not 
where I shall settle, in mean time you may direct your letters 



IN BURLIXGTOX. 29 

for me to be left with Mr. Bridge of Boston N. E. Mr. Yesey 
at X. York, Mr. Evans at Philadelphia and Mr. Y^allace in 
Yirginia." 

EGBERT WHEELER AXD FAMILY. 

" February 21, Sunday, 1702. I preached at Burlington in 
West Jersey, on Rom. 10. 1, 8, 9. — [Or, Who shall descend into 
the deep f {that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.) Bu^ 
ichat saith it:^ The loord is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and 
in thy heart: that is, the icord of faith, which ive preach; That 
if thou shcdt confess luith thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shcdt 
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, 
thou shalt be saved.']— and Feb. 22. I baptized the AVife of Mr. 
Icob. Wheeler and his three Children,! and five others : in all 
9 Persons. He and his Y^ife had been Quakers, but are come 
over to the Church. He did most kindly and hospitallv enter- 
tain us at his house, groiis, the several times that we travelled 
to and fro in those Parts : And the like kind and free Enter- 
tainment he gives to all Ministers of the Church that travel 
that way.'^ — Keith^s Journal. 

TAVO HU2sDRED POUXDS TOWARDS A CHURCH. 

Mr. Keith to the Bishop of London. Extracts. 

Philadelphia, 26th February, 1702-3. 

iji ' >rc :^ ;|< >f< % 

^' The Congregation here has been considerably enlarged in 
number by those called Keithian Quakers, coming into the 
Church, whose good examples many others have followed both 
in town and country, and since my arrival in this Country 
there has been some increase in Divers places both of those 
formerly called Iveithians and others wdio are well affected to 
the Church. In E. Jersey the Keithians are generally zealous 
for the Church and divers others whom they have an influence 
upon. Mr. Talbot, my Companion, and I have laboured among 
them, in preaching from place to place, and had much con- 
fin the first Parisli Eegister — mentioned in the Preface — in the hand- 
•\vriting of Mr. Talbot, is this: ''Eebekah Wheeler & her Children, John 
Kebekah, Eobert & Mary Baptized by Mr. G. Keith on Sunday ffeb : 22, ITOf 



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ference with ilieni in private froiu House to House, for the 
space of two months, and we baptized two and twenty persons, 
young and okl of those called Keithians. In AV. Jersey also 
tliose formerly called Keithians are well alFected and came from 
divers parts to visit me, and heard me, and showed me Love 
and Affection. I have been here not much above a month, and 
have preached nine times in the Church here, having had large 
auditories, sometimes about a thousand persons in the Church, 
but not all of tlie Church, many of them Presbyterians, some 
Anabaj^tists, and some Quakers, but the Quakers of late have 
made an Act that none of their way shall come, which has at 
present put a stop to their coming. I have also had much 
private discourse with some who yet remain Keithians, and use 
to meet together ; of divers of them, I have good hope, they 
have frequently come to Church to hear me, and last Sunday I 
went and preached in their meeting, with which some of them 
were well pleased though others not. 

^'The people well affected to the Church have gathered two 
hundred pounds towards building a Church at Burlington, in 
AV. Jersey, they are to begin to build as they have told me this 
Spring ; also at Amboy, in E. Jersey, they intend to do the 
like. Colonel Morris is a very good friend to the Church and 
a promoter of it, and was very kind and assistant to us, and i- 
very regular in his family, and his Lady is a very pious and 
good Woman, his family is a little Church : he useth the Com- 
mon Prayer in his family daily, and on Sundays his neighbours 
come to his house, as to a Church, and at times Mr. Junesse 
preacheth in his house. I suppose your Lordship remembereth 
Mr. Junesse, a good man, but a nonjuror. 

" My Lord, if but 3 or 4 pious and able ministers were sent 
over to supply the present necessity in these provinces of E. and 
AV. Jersey and Pensylvania, it would be of exceeding great 
service to promote and increase the Church. At Chester, in 
Pensylvania, 16 miles Southward from Philadelphia, by the 
River Delaware, some well affected persons have built a brave 
Church. Mr. Yates, who lives at Chester, has been the main 
promoter of it; they are to write to your Lordship earnestly to 
request your Lordship to send them an able and pious Minister. 



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31 



The Quakers are very many and rich, in and aboat that place^ 
but some of o:ood note of them called Keithians are well affected 
to the Church in that County who would certainly join with, 
the Church, if they had a Minister. I have lately preached at 
Chester and had an auditory of above 200 persons, and also at 
the Houses of 2 Keithians, my former friends and acquaint- 
ances, who received me with much affection. I am forced to 
use this term of distinction to distinguish them called Keithians 
from the other sort of Quakers who generally are most refractory 
and pertinacious in their Errors, but yet there is hope of many 
of the Youth among them. 

" There is here at Philadelphia a brave vestry of men, both 
pious and very discreet and in good unity and harmony one 
with another, and kind to their Ministers, and they have been 
very civil and Kespectfull to us. We have lodged all the time 
of our stay here at Philadelphia, with an ancient Grentlewoman, 
a widow called Mistress Welch, formerly a Keithian but now a 
zealous Churchwoman and so is her daughter. 

" IMy Lord, having thus far given you an account in general 
of things hereaway, I shall not enlarge upon this subject; what 
further shall occur in my Travels, I think to acquaint your 
Lordship from time to time. His Excellency Governor Xich- 
olson is a very great patron and benefactor to all the ZSew- 
Erected Chuyches in these Xorthern parts of America. 
" I remain your Lordship's most humble 

"And most obliged servant, 

" Geoege Keith." 

laxd for erectixg a chuech. 
"Whereas severall well disposed Persons with others (luliab- 
itants in & about Burlington) together with Xathaiiiell W^est- 
land Robert Wheeler & Hugh. Huddy have agreed together 
to purchase a Lott or parcell of Land as well for the Enlargeing 
of that or those parcells of Land ffenced in for Christian bury- 
ing ground as also for the Erecting a Church & other buildings- 
as occasion may serve for Charitable uses and for the same- 
intent & purpose have respectively disbursed or agreed to dis- 
burse into the hands of the said Xathaniell Westland Robert- 



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AVheclei* & Hugh Huddy (as ifeoffees in Trust) certaine Sumes of 
money,'^ therefore, on the Cth of March, '^In the Yeare of our 
Lord according to English accoV' 1702, the said Xathaniell 
Westhmd Robert AVheeler & Hugh Huddy, as well for them- 
selves as also in trust,^' for the Sume of Twenty pounds of Cur- 
rant Silver money within the Province,'^ bought of AVilliam 
Hollinshead & John Hollinshead, Yeomen," all that Lott 
of Land in Burlington " bounded Easterly by a street commonly 
called "Wood street & adjoyning to & Rangeing with the Easterly 
end of that Land purchased lately & ffenced in for Christian 
burvino- around & runs thence in a direct Line bounded bv 
said Wood street unto the street called Broad street & soe runs 
Westerly bounded by the said Broad street untill it Range 
in a direct Line with the Westerly end of the said Burying 
ground & is the same in Length with the said Burying ground," 
'^to have & to hold the said Lott '^for the Publick uses afore- 
said.'^ Extracts from Original Deed. 

COEXER-STOXE OF THE CHUECH LAID. 

3Tr. Talbot to 3Ir. Gillingham. 

^'Xew Castle, 10th April, 1703. 

>n ^ >;« >K 

'•'I have gone with Mr. Keith and without him, about East 
and West Jersey Preaching and baptising several scores of men, 
women and children, encouraging them to build Churches by 
promising them in time ministers from England, and that the 
Honorable Society would take care to send none but sober, good 
men well qualified in all respects for the work of the ministry. 
I look upon it that the sending Mr. Keith in quality of a mis- 
sionary, to travel for the good of the Churches, has been the 
best service that has been done yet for the Church of England 
in these parts of the world ; for he is a general scholar, an able 
disputant and a perfectly honest man. He is in a word Hereti- 
corurn malleus, and so he had need ; having to deal with some 
of the worst that ever troubled the Church or the World. Here 
is little or no Government, and people in many places take the 
liberty to say there be three Gods, or no God, and nothing is 
done to them. Certainly 'tis better to live wheie nothing is 



IN BURLINGTON. 33 

lawful than where all things are. Since I came to be more 
acquainted with the Quakers I have much worse opinion of 
them than ever I had. It appears by William Penn's book, 
that he is a greater Antichrist than Julian the apostate. He 
has said that Christ is a finite, impotent creature ; and Faith in 
the History of Christ's outward manifestation is a deadly poyson 
these latter ages have been infected withal, to the destruction of 
holy Living. Who w^as defender of the Faith when the lewd 
Heretick was made Governor and Proprietor of a province? 
Certainly God gave this Land into the hands of the English, 
that they might Publish the Gospell and give knowledge of 
Salvation to these people ; and I am sure the King gave this to 
AVilliam Penn, with Injunction expressly in his patent, that he 
should endeavor to convert the Indians to the Faith ; but 
instead of that he labours to make Christians Heathens ; and 
proclaims Liberty and Priviledge to all that believe in one God, 
and yet when they come here they say there are three or none, 
and yet be borne out by the Quakers against the Christians. 
They pretend they ought not to fight, yet I have seen several 
commissions, under several of their Governor's hands to kill, 
&c. God bless Queen Anne, and defend her that she may 
defend the Faith ; and her Faithful Councellours if they have 
any piety or policy I'm sure will take some course with these 
Heathens and Hereticks, for if they be let alone to take the 
sword (which they certainly will when they think they are 
strong enough) we shall perish w^ith it, for not opposing them 
in due time. Notwithstanding the Toleration they are subject 
to all the penal laws, as you'll find if you read the Act, and 
were I in England, and had as much knowledge in Law as you, 
I would bring Statutes and Judgments against them. I have 
done so att New York where there is a good^ Governor, my 
Lord Cornbury. 

Last Lord's day I was at Burlington, the chief Towm in 
West Jersey, where I have preached many times in a house 
hard by the Quakers' meeting ; we shall have one too, I hope, 
when we return here again from Virginia, where we think to 
stay but two or three months ; after sermon I went out with the 
rest of the people, and laid the corner stone of Saint Mary's 

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34 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 

Cliurcli. Go J gmut it may rise to be the house of God, and the 
Gate of Heaven to them. 

It seems the Honorable Gentlemen of the Corporation have 
considered mv Travels for the Service of the Church, and have 
<^iven me a handsome allowance to bear my charges with Mr« 
Keith. Pray give them my hearty service and thanks to let 
them know that, by the grace of God, I shall make it my busi- 
ness to fulfil my mission. Pray remember my duty and Love 
to my Good Mother; I hope she is alive and well, let her not 
want £10 per annum, as long as I have £60 coming to me, 
which will be due the 12th of June next ensuing. It grieves 
me much to see so many People here without the benefit of 
serving God in the wiklerness. I believe I have been solicited 
to tarry at twenty Places where they want much, and are able 
to maintain a minister, so that he should want nothing; they 
send to New England and call any sorry young man, purely for 
want of some good honest clergyman of the Church of England. 
Many go to the heathen meetings of the People called Quakers? 
because there are no houses of God in their provinces, till at last 
they come to be bewitched and forced out of their Faith and 
senses too. The country is a good land in all parts of it, bating 
the sudden change of Heat and Cold, which, if people be not 
careful, they are many times the worse for. The air is generally 
clear and pure. Nobody complains here of the spleen, unless 
he has also an evil conscience attending. I saw Mr. Burley, 
Mr. Scott's friend, at Philadelphia. I was at his house, he 
lives very well and entertained me very civilly, and was glad 
to hear of his old Friends. I am but poor at present, being 
robbed by a negro of all my money out of my Portmanteau; the 
young slut did not leave me one Token for myself, only I got 
the bao; ao;ain. But blessed be God I never wanted meat 
nor drink, nor deaths neither as yet; but if you don't send 
me some cloaths next shipping, instead of going as they 
do in "White Hall, I shall go as the Indians do. I shall be 
content, let it be as it will. I might have had money enough 
liere if I would have taken what People have offered me, but 
lest the Quakers should say truly, as they do falsely, that v/e 



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35 



come for money and preach for hire, I preach the Gospel as 
freely as the Apostles did to the first Churches. 

Virginia, 8th June. 
" When I wrote this, I missed the opportunity to send it so 
I brought it hither with me so you must take it rough as it 
runs. We have been now at our journey's end in N. Carolina 
as far as we could goe, now we tack about and stand another 
way to Philadelphia again, thus George Keith's home and mine 
is every lohere. Governor Nicholson has been very kind and 
generous to me. I pray God prosper him long in his Govern- 
ment ; he has some enemies as well as other men, but none of 
them can deny but he is a just magistrate in his place. I have 
sent the scheme of our Church alFairs by one Mr. Beverly, 
an honest Gentleman of this Country, who is bound for Eng- 
land very speedily : you'll hear of him at Mr. Parry's, the 
Virginia Merchant. George Keith comes home next year ; 
then if I can get anything worthy sending, I shall have a care- 
full hand to deliver it. There is one Mr. Keyes, my Lord of 
London's taylor ; you may deal with him to send me a chest of 
cloathes, new or old, once a year. Direct them or anything else 
for me to be left with George Walker at Kecoughtan in Vir- 
ginia. I am 

Semper Idem, 

^'J. T." 

THE CHUECH CALLED ST. MARY's. 

J/r. Talbot to Mr. Gillingham. 

^'Virginia, 3d May, 1703. 

" Dear Feiexd : 

"Now at last (God be praised) we are arrived at the Haven 
where we would be. Mr. Keith is got to his Daughter's house, 
and I am got amongst my old Friends and acquaintance in 
these parts, who are very glad to see me ; especially those of the 
ministry, who came over along with me. Here has been great 
alterations in these ten years. Since I was here many of my 
old Friends are dead, but I have found some new in their stead; 
amongst which is the bearer, Mr. Robert Beverly, who has one 



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of the best houses and plantations in this country, where I 
reckon myself as it were, at home, he has been so courteous and 
civil. But there is some dispute in Law concerning the Title, 
and he is come over to see about it; wherein I hope you will 
and can be serviceable to him, and I shall take it as done to 
myself I have sent you several Letters, but have none yet 
from nobody. I hear the Honorable Gentlemen of the Society 
at Bow have ordered £60 per annum for travelling charges ; 
£30 I have received upon Bill. I desire you to receive the 
other £30 to buy Books for a friend of mine here, who will 
repay me. I desire you to lay out £10 more in cloathes and 
shirts which I desire neighbour Leviton to buy for me, and 
send them in some ship to Kew York directed to me, to be left 
at Mr. Yesey's, minister there. I shall be glad to hear how all 
our Friends do, especially my good mother. Pray let me know 
where she is, and how she does, let her have decern minas upon 
my account as long as she lives. I have sent the present state 
of the Church, apud Americanos as far as we have gone; the first 
year from Dover, eighty miles eastward from Boston in New 
England, to Philadelphia in Pensylvania ; since that scheme 
was finished, I have gone up and down in E. and "W. Jersey 
preaching and baptizing and preparing the way for several 
Churches there. At Amboy they are going to build one, at 
Hopewell another, and at Shrewsbury, Coll. Morris is going to 
build one at his own cost and charge, and he will endow it as 
he savs, which I don't doubt, for he is an honest Gentleman, 
and a member of the Honorable Society for Propagating the 
Gospel in Foreign parts. I was at Burlington last Lady day, 
and after prayers we went to the Ground where they were going 
to build a Church, and I laid the first stone, which I hope will 
be none other than the House of God and Gate of Heaven to 
the People. Coll. Nicholson, Governor here, was the chief 
founder of this as well as many more ; and indeed he has been 
the benefactor to all the Churches on this land of North America. 
God bless this Church and let them prosper that love it. We 
called this Church St. Mary's, it being upon her day. January 
last I was at the opening of a church at Chester ; I preached 
the first sermon that ever was there, on Sunday the day before 



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37 



the Conversion of St. Paul, and after much debate what to call 
it, I named it St. PaLiFs. This is one of the best Churches in 
these American Parts, and a very pleasant place ; but they have 
no minister as yet, but Mr. Evans of Philadelphia officiated 
there once in three weeks. The Governor of Virginia is build- 
ing several more churches : Two at North Carolina, where we 
are going next week, and one at New Castle, where in all 
appearance we shall have a considerable Congregation of Chris- 
tian People. The place is very well planted for trade both by 
sea and Land. It being allmost in the midway between Phila- 
delphia and Maryland upon Delaware River ; where, God wil- 
ling, I intend to spend some labour and pains ; though I can't 
find in my heart to settle in any place for my own, but to travel, 
as I told you, for the good of the Church in general. I should 
be glad to hear how you did about the Centurion, and how mat- 
ters of account stand between us. Tis good to reckon some 
time if we never intend to pay, though I hope to be out of debt 
to the world. Yet I shall always count myself obliged to my 
friend. I have been with George Keith a year next June 12th, 
then my £60 becomes due. This has been a sickly year ajmd 
AmericanoSj but God be praised I have had good health all this 
time. And I believe I have done the Church more service 
since I came hither than I would in seven years in England. 
Perhaps when I have been here six or seven years, I may make 
a Trip home to see some Friends (for they won't come to me) 
but then it will be Animo Bevertendi, for I have given myself 
up to the service of God and his Church cqmd Americanos ; and 
I had rather dye in the service than desert it. Pray give my 
service and thanks to the Honorable Society for their Generous 
Allowance to bear my charges. I shall take care to fulfill my 
mission, and goe as far with it as any body that they shall send 
forth. We came hither in a sloop from Pensylvania, when 
we were out of Delaware River, a North west wind took us and 
carried us out to sea and lost us ten or twelve hours so as I w^as 
never lost in my life ; 'tis true sometimes, as the sailor sayes, 
the last storm was the worst. The sea never got any thing 
before by my sickness, but then I was so sick that I had much 
adoe to keep my bowels within my body ; we arrived safe at 



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last, God be praised ; but I shall be hardly catched on board so 
small a vessel again in a good while. We are going now by 
land to Pamplico in North Carolina, a place where there never 
was any minister but only one Dan. Brett, a scandalous Fellow, 
that has done more harm than good every wdiere. He was the 
worst I think that ever came over. 

" We want a great many good ministers here in America, 
especially in those parts mentioned in the scheme ; but we had 
better have none at all than such scandalous beasts as some 
make themselves ; not only the worst of ministers but of men. 
If you know none so good as to come, I hope you will find them 
that are willing to send. Some good books would do very w^ell 
in the mean wdiile. I am sure there is no w^ant of them in 
England, they have enough and to spare. Indeed we have had 
many of Dr. Bray's books and I could wish we had more. But 
his w^ay and method is not the best for this people that we have 
to do wdthal, Quakers and Quakers' friends ; to most of them, 
nothing but controversy will serve their turn, 'tis a hard matter 
to persuade to the Baptismal Covenant, on which the Doctor 
has AYvit three or four Books to the folio, that they may be ever 
learning and yet never be able to come to the knowledge of the 
Creed, the Lord's Prayer, nor the Ten Commandments. 

Those that we have to deal with are a sharp and inquisitive 
people : they are not satisfied wdth one Doctor's opinion but 
must have something that is authentick if we hope to prevail 
with them. 

We should have some Common Prayer Books new or old, 
of all sorts and sizes with the thirty-nine articles, and some 
books of Homily's, to set up the worship and service of God till 
we have ministers; some of Dr. Comber's Books would be of 
right good use here to give those that ask a Reason of all things 
contained in our English Liturgies ; which has still stood the 
Best Test of all adversaries that were not blind and deaf. 
Above all, Mr. Lesly, the Author of the ^ Snake in the Grass,' 
has given Quakerism a deadly wound, I hope never to be healed: 
and his five Discourses about Baptism and Episcopacy have 
brought many to the Church. We want a 1000 of them to dis- 
pose of in the w\ay that we goe. I use to take a wallet full of 



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39 



Books and cany them 100 miles about, and disperse them 
abroad, and give them to all that desired them; which in due 
time will be of good service to the Church ; 'tis a comfort to the 
people in the Wilderness to see that some body takes care of 
them. There is a time to sow and a time to reap, which last I 
don't desire in this world. I might have money enough of the 
people in many places, but I would never take any of those that 
we goe to proselyte, especially amongst the Quakers; I resolved 
to Avork with my hands rather than they should say I was a 
hireling, and come for money, which they are very apt to do. 
The Governour of Virginia, my old Friend, has been very 
generous to us, and has taken care that nothing be wanting to 
us wliile we are in his Territories ; if there were such another 
Governour in America, it would be much cheaper travelling for 
the missionaries. But alas! I am afraid we shall lose him 
before we get such another. There are a parcel of men in the 
world, that are given to change, and don't know when they are 
well themselves, nor can't let others alone that do. But more 
of this another time, I have writ enough to tire you and myself 
too: you must take it as it is. I have something else to do now 
than write letters twice over; rough as it runs I hope you'll 
take it in good part. With my Love and Service to all Friends, 
I desire your Prayers, and rest 

"Your real Friend, 

" And servant, 

"J. T." 

THE FIEST SEEMOX IIS^ THE CHUECH. 

" August 22, Sunday, 1703. I preached at the New Church at 
Burlington, on 2 Sam, 23. 3, 4. — \_The God of Israel said, the Roch 
of Israel spahe to me, He that rideth over men must be just, riding 
in the fear of God. And he shall he as the light of the morning, 
when the suninseth, even a morning ivithout clouds; as the tender 
grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.^ — My 
Lord Cornbury was present and many Gentleuien who accom- 
panied him, both from Neiv York, and the two Jerseys, having 
.had his 'Commission to be Governour of West and JEast- Jersey, 



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Read at the Town House there, some Days before. It was the 
first Sermon that was Preached in that Church. 

"August 2d, Sunday. I preached again at the Church in Bur- 
lington, on James 1. 22. — \^Bat be ye doers of the word, and not 
hearers only, deceiving your oivn selves.'} 

"Sept. 5, Sunday. I preached at Philadelphia, on Acts 2. 41, 
42. — l^Then they that gladly received his ivord ivere baptized: and 
the same day there vjere added unto them about three thousand 
soids. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and 
felloioship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.} — being 
Sacrament Day. 

"Sept. 12, Sunday. I preached at the Church in Burlington, 
a Second Sermon, on James 1. 22. Mr. Talbot preached that 
Day at Chester in Fensilvania.'^ KeitNs Journal. 

THE CHURCH ALMOST FINISHED. 

Mr, Talbot to the Secretary. — Extract. 

''Philadelphia, 1st September, 1703. 

''Sir: 

"Mr. Keith and I have preached the Gospel to all sorts and 
conditions of men, we have baptized several scores of men? 
w^omen and children, chiefly those of his old Friends (the rest 
are hardened just like the Jews who please not God and are 
contrary to all men), we have gathered several hundreds 
together for the Church of England, and wdjat is more, to build 
houses for her service. There are four or five going forward 
now in this province and the next. That at Burlington is 
allmost finished. Mr. Keith preached the first sermon in it 
before my Lord Cornbury, whom the Queen has made Gover- 
nour of Jersey to the satisfaction of all Christian people. 
Churches are going up amain where there were never any 
before. They are going to build three at N. Carolina to keep the 
people together, lest they should fall into Heathenism, Quaker- 
ism &c. &c., and three more in these lower counties about 
New Castle, besides that at Chester, Burlington and Amboy. 

"And I must be so just to a member of your Society, his 
Excellency Francis Nicholson, Governour of Virginia, as to 



IN BURLINGTON. 



acknowledge him to be the Prime Benefactor and Founder, in 
chief of them all ; so generous has he been to the church ; so 
just to the State, so far from taking of bribes, that he will no^ 
receive a present from any, great or small. Therefore we have 
hopes that it will please God and the Queen to give him time 
to perfect the good w^orks that he has begun ; that he may see 
the Church prosper and prevail against all her enemies, which 
I dare say is all that he desires ; being zealous for the honour 
of the Church of England which is the mother of us all. Upon 
her account it was that I was willing to travel with Mr. Keith, 
indeed I was loath he should go alone, now he was for us, who 
I'm sure would have had followers enough had he come against 
us. Besides, I had another end in it, that by his free Conversa-^ 
tion and Learned Disputes both with his Friends and Enemies, 
I have Learnt better in a year to deal with the Quakers, than I 
could by several years' study in the schools. We want more of 
his narratives which would be of good use here where we often 
meet with the Quakers and their Books. More of his answers 
to Robert Barklay would come well to the clergy of Maryland 
and Virginia, &c. Barklay's book has done most mischief, 
therefore Mr. Keith's answer is more requisite and necessary. 
Mr. Keith has done great service to the Church where ever he 
has been, by Preaching and disputing, publicly and from house 
to house ; he has confuted many (especially the Anabaptists) ; 
by Labor and Travel night and day, by writing and printing of 
books mostly at his own charge and costs and giving them out 
freely, which has been very expensive to hira. By these means 
People are much awakened, and their Eyes opened to see the 
good old way, and they are very well pleased to find the Church 
at last take such care of her children. For it is a sad thing to- 
consider the years that are past, how some that were born of the 
English, never heard of the name of Christ, how many others- 
were baptized in his name and follow away to Heathenism,, 
Quakerism, and Atheism for want of confirmation. 

" It seems the strangest thing in the world and 'tis thought 
History can not parallel it, that any place has received the Word 
of God so many years, so many hundred Churches built, so 
many thousand proselytes made, and still remain altogether in 



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the Aviklerness as sheep without a shepherd. The poor church of 
America is worse off iu this respect than any of her adversaries. 

The Presbyterians here come a great way to lay hands one 
on another ; but after all I think they had as good stay at home, 
for the good they do. The Independents are called by their 
Sovereign Lord the People. The Anabaptists and Quakers 
pretend to the spirit. But the poor Church has no body upon 
the spot to comfort or confirm her children. 'No body to ordain 
severall that are willing to serve, were they authorized for the 
work of the ministry. Therefore they fall back again into the 
Herd of the Dissenters, rather than they will be at the Hazard 
and Charge to go as far as England for orders ; so that we have 
seen severall Counties^ Islands and Provinces, which have hardly 
an Orthodox minister amongst them, wdiich might have been 
supplied had we been so happy as to see a Bishop or Sufiragan 
apud Americanos. 

" We count ourselves happy, and indeed so we are, under the 
protection and Fatherly Care of the Right Rev. Father in God, 
Henry Lord Bishop of London, and we are all satisfied that we 
can't have a greater Friend and Patron than himself. But alas ! 
there is such a great Gulph fixt between us, that we can't pass 
to him nor he to us ; but may he not send a Suffragan ? I 
believe I am sure there are a great many learned and Good men 
in England, and I believe also did our Gracious Qneen Anne 
but know the necessities of her many good subjects in these 
parts of the world, she would allow £1000 per annum, rather 
than so many souls should suffer ; and then it would be a hard 
case if there should not be found one amongst so many pastors 
and Doctors [de tot millibus, units qui transiens, adjuvet nos) ; 
meanwhile I don't doubt but some learned and good man would 
go further, and do the Church more service with £100 per 
annum than with a coach and six, 100 years hence. 

^'The Reverend author of the ^ Snake in the Grass' has done 
great service here by his Excellent Book ; no body that I know 
since the Apostles' dayes has managed controversie better against 
all Jews, Heathens and Heretics; many here have desired to 
see the author, however I hope we shall not want his works, 



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43 



especially against the Quakers, and the five discourses which 
have convinced many, and are much desiderated. 

''Those boxes of books that were sent over last year, Mr. 
Keith has disposed of in their several Places as directed. I 
have carried of the small sort, in a wallet, some hundred miles, f 
and distributed them to the people as I saw need. They have 
been long upon the search for truth in these parts, they see 
through the vanity and pretences of all Dissenters, and generally 
tend directly to the Church. Now is the time of harvest, we 
want a hundred hands for the work, meanwhile two or three, 
that are well chosen, will do more good there than all the rest ; 
for we find by sad experience that people are better where they 
have none, than where they have an ill minister. Next unto 
God, our eyes are upon the Corporation for help in this heavy 
case. I dare say nothing has obtained more reputation to the 
Church and nation of England abroad than the honorable society 
for Reformation of manners and the Reverend and honorable 
corporation for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts. 

The Quakers compass sea and land to make proselytes ; 
they send out yearly a parcel of vagabond Fellows that ought 
to be taken up and put in Bedlam rather than suffer to go about 
raving and railing against the Laws and Orders of Christ and 
his Church ; and for Avhy ? Their preaching is of cursing and 
Lyes, poysoning the souls of the people with damnable errors 
and heresies, and not content with this in their own Territories 
of Pensylvania, but they travel with mischief over all parts as 
far as they can goe, over Virginia and Maryland, and again 
through Jersey and New York as far as New England ; but 
there they stop, for they have prevented them by good Laws 
and due Execution ; Fas est ab hoste doceri. Sir 
'' Your most humble and obedient servant, 

''JoHx Talbot." 



t At the head of the fourth page of the Parish Register, Mr. Talbot has 
inscribed, in bold and beautilul letters, ''Laus Deo apud Americaxos." 
Immediately following this, are recorded, baptisms administered by him, in 
"Long Island, Oyster Bay;" "Freehold;" "Amboy;" and " Eaway, East 
Jersey." 



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THE FIKST CHURCHWAKDEXS APPEAL FOR AID. 

The Church Wardens &g of Burlington to the Lord Bishop of 

London. 

^^BuELiXGTOX in AVest Jersey 4 Sept"" 1703 

" Jlost Reverend Father, 
We few members of the church of England in this Collony 
of West new Jersey in America by the advice of our worthy 
Patron ColL Nicholson Governor of Virginia did in November 
last penn our humble addresse to our majesty our Gracious Queen 
and also a petition to your Lordship wherein we demonstrated 
our Designe to erect a church for the worship of God according 
to Law as established in England. 

" But the Quakers being numerous amongst us, & we a very 
few concerned are not able without the assistance of well dis- 
posed christians to accomplish this our religious undertaking, 
yet tho^ it was not quite covered and flored nor plastered, nor 
glazed the 22*^ of Aug. last Keith & W Talbot preached 
before my Lord Cornbury therein, who was here then to pro- 
claime her majesty's commission for Governour of the Jerseys. 

With our petition to your Lordship we presumed to inclose 
a little memorial : That when our Infant church by divine 
providence mett with benefactors in England some things might 
be sent us as Common Prayer Books Catechisms necessaries for 
the Communion Table & Pulpitt, Glass, nayles. Linseed Oyle; 
& a Bell these are things not to be had here for money, so we 
are in hopes God Almighty will move the hearts of well dis- 
posed christians to help us. 

"By a Letter from your Lordship to Coll Morris of East 
Jersey we are informed your Lordship designed sending us a 
minister for w"^^ we have cause to adore the goodness of God who 
is pleased to move your Lordships heart to take pity upon our 
poor souls, we most humbly begg your Lordships prayers for us, 
that the Almighty's Blessing may be upon us that Schisms & 
Heresies may vanish, that many souls amongst us may be 
brought into the true orthodox faith : then shall our congrega- 
tion encrease we & our Posterity for so great a blessing will 
have ever cause to praise and magnify God Almightie's goodness 



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for his Instruments in Promoting so religious and glorious a 
T\'ork. 

We having but even now notice of M'' Thomas the Minister 
att Philadelphia his departing from thence in a day or two^ we 
could not get more hands, many of our bretheren being att some 
considerable distance.^ on our own and their behalfs presumed to 
subscribe our selves 

" Eight reverend Father in God, your Lordships 
" ever obliged humble & obedient Servants, 

r Nath^ Westlaxd 
" Church wardens \ Egbert Wheelee 
JoHx Jewell.'^ 

EVERY PLACE W\1XTS MR. TALBOT. 

Mr. Keith to the Secretary. 

Philadelphli, 4^'' September 1703. 
v< >K u Xotwithstanding the averseness of those called 
Foxonian Quakers, everywhere generally (some few excepted) 
those formerly called Keithian Quakers both in E. & W. Jersey 
and Pensylvania and at New York did kindly receive us and 
most are come over to the Church wath good zeal, so that in E. 
& W. Jersey and some other places above a hundred have been 
baptized by Talbot and me and M"" Evans very lately ; most 
of them Keith ians formerly so called, and their children : and 
they greatly desire that good and able ministers may be sent 
among them, particularly at Burlington in W. Jersey, at Shrews- 
bury in E. Jersey, where Coll. Morris lives, and who has been 
very Instrumental to them, & very kind to us and hospitable ; 
also at Chester in Pensylvania they greatly desire a minister, and 
at New Castle by the Eiver Delaware. In Burlington, the 
people assisted by the county and some others, especially by the 
beneficence of Governour Nicholson, have built a church of 
Brick where I preached two wrecks ago before Lord Cornbury, 
w'ho was come thither to publish his Commission to be Gover- 
nour of these two provinces of E. & W. Jersey now put into 
one. The Church was very full of People, and the next Sunday 
after that, I preached there again and had a considerable audi- 
tory. ^ ^ \ had your kind letter wherein you give me notice 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



— that . the Hororable Corporation hath allowed Mr. John 
Talbot to be my associate in my travels, and that they give £60 
per annum to bear his charge, for which I humbly thank them : 
he hath been very comfortable to me and serviceable throughout,, 
and is universally so w^ell beloved that in every place where they 
want a Minister they have desired to have him, and especially 
at Burlington and in E. Jersey. He designs to stay in these 
American parts, and in my opinion I think the Corporation will 
hardly find any one fitter to send to be their missionary, (and 
to give him the best post either on Long Island or E. or W, 
Jersey,) than he is, being so well known & beloved both for his 
preaching and good Conversation, and civil and obliging be- 
haviour. But I leave it wholly to the discretion of the Honor- 
able Corporation where to fix him after his time is expired with 
me, which will be about eight months hence, when my two years 
which I design to travel in these American parts will be out ; 
and, God willing, I design to come to England in the Fleet that is 
to sail from Virginia to London next Spring or Summer, if God 
please to spare my life and give me health and Preservation. 

;jc ^ >1< 

As you advised me I keep a Journal of all observable 
occurrences which I hope to produce at my return. 
^' I remain, 

" Your obliged and affectionate friend, 

George Keith." 

the keithian quakers well affected. 
3Ir. Keith to Dr. JBray. 

"Philadelphia, 24th Feb. 1703-4. 

"Dr. Bray— 

"Reverend and Worthy Sir: 

"My very humble and kind respects 
remembered to you, and all our friends with you ; having this 
occasion I was glad to accept of it (as of all occasions that occur) to 
write unto you. I writ unto you from New York, in Novem- 
ber last, together with our scheme of the State of the Church in 
these Northern parts of America, and therewith I sent a long 



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letter to the Honourable Corporation for Propagating the 
Gospell in Foreign Parts, and a letter to my Lord of London^ 
all which I enclosed in my letter to you, which I hope you have 
received. I have had no letter from you as yet, nor from any 
of your honourable Corporation, but one from my worthy friend, 
Mr. Chamberlayue,t wherein he signified to me that your Cor- 
poration had not met, betwixt his receiving my Letters and the 
time of his writing to me, so that he could not say any thing, 
what the Corporation would do, concerning allowing Mr. Tal- 
bot his charge in travelling with me, but he thought that they 
would be well satisfied that he was my companion, and would 
allow him what they thought was convenient. I have heard^ 
Mr. Talbot say that if they allow him £50 English monev per 
annum, it will do, and indeed that is little enough, and would 
not near do, but that we are often upon free quarters, more 
especially among our friends. Mr. Talbot, I hear, has a good 
character given of him, to my Lord of Canterbury, and indeed 
he deserves it, he has been mightly serviceable and comfortable 
to me in all respects, as a Son to his Father, and is well beloved 
by all where we have travelled, who are well affected to the 
Church : and has been much desired by the People in severa 
Places, to be their Minister (after he has finished his travels 
with me, which are like to be done, somewhat above a year 
hereafter) particularly at Chester, about 16 miles Southward 
from Philadelphia, by the river Delaware, where he has once 
preached, and hath brought over the same time there also, in 
the said Town of Chester, INIr. Yeates who lives there, and who 
has been the principal person, to cause build a Church, very 
decent and convenient of Brick, that will hold a thoasand 
people, it is Avell glazed, but not as yet wainscotted nor plais- 
tered, but it is fit for use, and we have preached in it twice : the 
the 14th of this instant I preached in it, and there were above 
two hundred hearers, all generally well affected to the Church ; 
but they greatly desire a Minister, and if the Corporation please 
to give an yearly supply of £50 per annum, the people there,, 
and thereabouts, would contribute to make up the rest. This,. 



T He was Secretary of the Society. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Mr. Yeates desired me to write to you to lay before my Lord of 
London and the Honourable Corporation. 

" Betwixt Xew Y^ork and Pensylvania we continued about a 
month, viz. from 14th of December to 11th of January travel- 
ling among the Friends, call'd formerly the Keithian Quakers 
especially for East Jersey, having been about a whole month 
travelling among them before that, which was in the month 
October; and by God's blessing our labour has had good suc- 
cess among them, so that generally very few excepted, all the 
Iveithians in East Jersey are well affected to the Church, and 
we baptized twenty two persons in East Jersey, all either Keith- 
ians or Keithian children. I am forced to use this name of 
distinction to distinguish them from the other Quakers who are 
generally very stiif and averse from the Church, and all princi- 
ples of true Christianity everywhere, and who decline all dis- 
course or converse with us. Colonel Morris did very kindly 
entertain us at his house in East Jersey, and both he and his 
Lady went with us from meeting to meeting in divers places. 
At Amboy in East Jersey they have contributed about £200 
towards building a Church and greatly desire a Minister. The 
Contributors are some Keithians and some other persons well 
affected to the Church. At Burlington also several persons 
(among whom some are Keithians) well affected to the Church 
have contributed about two hundred pounds towards building 
of a Church and they are to begin the Building this Spring. In 
all these new erectings of Churches in these Northern parts, 
Governor Nicholson has largely contributed, and is a mighty 
promoter and encourager of them by his Letters and Advice as 
well as his purse ; as not only at Boston and Rhode Island, but 
at Burlington, in West Jersey, Chester, in Pensylvania, and here 
at Philadelphia. In all places where I have yet travelled, at 
Boston, Rhode Island, N. York and Philadelphia, the Ministers 
live very regularly and are in good esteem, and the Churches in 
good order, and the people generally devout, and well affected 
to the Word and the publick worship of God ; at Concord, in 
Pensilvania, and thereabouts, especially at Thomas Powell's, 
formerly a Keithian, several people formerly Keithians, are well 
affected to the Church and entertained us kindly. Mr. Evans, 



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49 



Minister of Philadelphia, was with me and I preached at two 
severall places among them and they were well affected ; also I 
had a publick dispute with one Killingsworth, an Anabaptist 
preacher at the house of Thomas Powell. This Killingsworth 
was sent for by some Anabaptists forty miles off to dispute with 
me. The dispute continued four hours, it has had good effect 
and it's hoped will have more ; they belong to the new Church 
at Chester above mentioned. I have preached here at Phila- 
delphia nine several times, and had great auditories, in some of 
them a thousand people were thought to be present, many 
besides the Church People, Quakers, Presbyterians and Ana- 
baptists. But of late the Quakers have made an act in their 
meeting that none of them may come to Church, which has of 
late deterred them from coming. The ministers here are in 
very good esteem among the People and they have a brave 
vestry of good and wise men, and good concord, love and 
unanimity among them, so that the Church here is in a Flour- 
ishing Condition. And at Newcastle, 40 miles from Philadel- 
phia, there is at present no minister, they had a Presbyterian 
minister called Willson, but he has been gone about half a year. 
Could a Minister of the Church of England be sent among them, 
it's thought they would gladly receive him, and it would be oi 
mighty service for advancing the Church in this province, it 
being, as it were, the Frontier. Also in other parts below New 
Castle, they want a Minister. 

There is a mighty cry and desire, almost in all places where 
we have travelled, to have Ministers of the Church of England 
sent to them in these Northern parts of America; so that it may 
be said the Harvest is great but the labourers few, and some 
well affected to the Church have desired me to write to my 
Lord of London and to you that if a Minister be not sent with 
the first Conveniency, Presbyterian Ministers from N. England 
would swarm into those countries and prevent the increase of 
the Church. They have here a Presbyterian meeting and 
minister, one called Andrews; but they are not like to increase 
here. I have had severall meetings with the Keithian Quakers 
here at ray lodgings, and friendly conferences with them and 
their Preachers, and last Sunday I preached at a Keithian meet- 

D 



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HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



iiig house, and was kindly iuvited to dinner after the meeting 
by a man and his wife of that meeting, and that evening I 
preached at the Church. Divers of them (God be praised for 
the success) are like to be gained to the Church who have heard 
us frequently at the Church and are well affected. Their chief 
speaker, John Hart, has vented a most absurd notion in hi^ 
Discourses and vindicates it in his preaching, (viz.) That true 
Believers ought not to fear Hell and Damnation, . so much as 
conditionally, and they ought to serve God only from love to 
him, without all regard to punishment or Scripture threaten- 
ings, so much as conditionally. I have in two severall meet- 
ings at my Lodgings, in the hearing of his followers, detected 
his errors, and last Sunday I preached a long sermon against it, 
in the Keithian .^Meeting, upon that Text, 1 Pet. 1-17, where I 
opened many other Texts of Scripture, to prove that a Condi- 
tioned fear is necessary to the best of Men : such as Heb. 4:1: 
Rom. 14: 10, etc. Most of his hearers and followers are dissatis- 
fied with the strange doctrine, and are like to forsake him. I 
have told them ^tis vile Antinomianism and the Root of Ranter- 
ism and Libertinism ; and son^e of his female hearers are offended 
at him for his telling them, they need not fear to commit the s;n 
of whoredom, being chaste women. He openly denied before 
many judicious persons to me at my lodgings last Monday, 22d 
of this Instant, that publick punishment of death was inflicted 
upon a murtherer for a terror to others, if innocent, which I 
told him was contrary to Deut. 13 : 10, 11. 

The six boxes you sent are all come safe; that to Boston, 
that to Xew York, that to the two Jerseys, and that to Pensyl- 
vania, are disposed of already according to. your orders, and are 
very acceptable to the people. The great Bibles in folio I have 
given one of them to the Church in Philadelphia, at the Minis- 
ter's request, another to the new Church at Chester above men- 
tioned, another I think to give to the Church at Burlington, 
and another to that of Amboy, and the rest to other Churches 
when erected. There is a great need of Common Prayer Books 
in 8vo for the use of the people, many would gladly buy them 
and some might be given to the Poorer Sort. I wish 2 or 300 
were sent over to these parts, direct them to Mr. Evans, the 



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51 



minister, if you send them ; also the new Psalms, being only- 
used here in this Church, the people want them greatly; if you 
would send over 100 of them at least, I believe the people 
would gladly buy them. They sing very well in the Church 
here, and the youth have learned to sing and delight much in it. 
I have disposed of many of your lectures in folio which are very 
acceptable to the people, and as you ordered, have desired them 
to read them to their families and neighbours on Sundays. 

"Dear Sir I I long to have a letter from you to know of your 
welfare, and other good news you have to impart to n:ie, and 
what hopes you can give us, of having good ministers sent over 
to these parts, which are so greatly wanted and desired ; and if 
they come not timely, the whole country will be overrun with 
Presbyterians, Anabaptists, and Quakerism ; the Quaker Mis- 
sionaries do mightily swarm out of old England into these parts, 
and have proseiited many ; many in Long Island are Quakers 
or Quakerly aflPected. 

" You see. Dear Sir, what a long letter I have writ to you, I 
question not your acceptance of it. It^s but a summarv of 
affairs here, but I keep a punctual Journal of all things worthy 
my notice in my Travells. 

" I have written the more at length to you, hoping, Dear Sir, 
and desiring that you would be pleased to impart either the 
whole or what part of it you think recjuisite to mv Lord of 
London, and my Lord of Worcester, and to your Honourable 
Corporation. AVe intend about two weeks hence to set forward 
to Maryland and Virginia. I have had a very kind letter 
from his Excellency, Governor Xicholson, inviting us to Vir- 
ginia, but before we go hence, I purpose to have a Poblick 
meeting in this place to detect the Quakers errors out of their 
own Books, after the method I used at Turner's Hall, in Lon- 
don. All course of Justice against Criminals is at a stop here, 
so that the Criminal Court can do nothing against murtherers ; 
the Quakers throw the whole Burden of Jurymen upon the 
Churchmen, so that a great List of Churchmen have been sum- 
moned , such as have appeared (some formerly Keithians) men 
of good sense and repute have refused to swear, not that they 
think it unlawfull, but that there is no law in the Province, that 



52 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



enjoins swearing in any case, and severall persons have lain long 
here in Prison, some on suspected murther, and can have no 
trial, and are said to be in great want of Bread. Colonel 
Quarry I suppose will give my Lord of London or yourself, 
some more full information. This is one instance of many of 
the great Deficiency of Quaker Government. I send you here- 
with a small specimen of my printed Labors here away. My 
sermon I preached at Boston soon after my arrival, was sent to 
you soon after it was printed, but ii hath not come to your 
Hands. I send you this one ; the single sheet called a Refuta- 
tion, etc., I lately printed at Xew York. Mr. Increase Mather 
has printed against the six rules in my Sermon, and I have my 
answer in the press at Xew York, in vindication of them ; when 
it is done, I shall order some copies to be sent to you, all which 
I hope will be acceptable to you and the clergy. 
^^I remain your affectionate, 

Humble servant, 

^^Geoege Keith.*' 

PETITION FEOM CHUECHMEX OF BUELIXGTOX, THAT ME. TAL- 
BOT MAT SETTLE WITH THEM. 

Blelixgtox in AY. X. Jersey 2 Ap^ 1704 
''Right Honomhle, 
Wee think it our duty by this opportunity of our worthy 
friend the Reverend M- George Keith to acquaint your Lordships 
with our concerns here. And first we desire to adore the good- 
ness of God for moving the hearts of the Lords Spirituall nobles 
& gentry to enter into a society for propagating the Gospell in 
Foreign parts, the benefit of which we have already experienced 
& hope further to enjoy. The Reverend M"". Keith on his first 
arrivall appointed a time place to read out of the Quakers 
authors their grosse errors but they refused to hear him & con- 
tinue to revile & reproach him for exposing them, but we of the 
church of England members have a great value for him for his 
good instructions & great Pains amongst us to confirm us in the 
true orthodox doctrine, & hath also brought over sundry of his 
former friends Quakers who are now joined with us. These 
encouragements caused us sometime since to joyn in a subscrip- 



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53 



tion to build a church here, which tho' not as yett near finished 
have heard many good sermons in it from the Reverend 
Keith & the Rev'^ Jn^ Talbot whom next to Keith we 
have a very great esteem for, & do in all humility beseech your 
Lordships he may receive orders from you to settle with usf & 
indeed he is generally so respected by us that we should esteem 
it a great happiness to enjoy him, and we have great hopes God 
Almighty will make him very Instrumentall not only to confirm 
and build ns up in the true orthodox doctrine, but also to bring 
many over from the Quakers, he being so very well cjualifyed as 
w^e presume thereto. Our circumstances att present are so that 
we cannot w^ithout the assistance of your Lordships maintain a 
minister, tho' we are jn hopes as Quakerism decreases our church 
members will encrease so that in time Ave may be enabled to 
allow a Reverend Minister such a competency as to have a com- 
fortable subsistence amongst us : we conclude with our prayers 
to the Almighty that he will please to shower down his blessings 
upon your Lordships as a reward for your great charity & care 
for the good of souls, which will ever oblige Right Hon°^® 
''your Lordships most humble 
"& dutifuU servants 
*' Nath : Westland Hugh Huddy Robert Wheeler 
W BuDD W Fisher Johx Ward 

W'' BusTiLL John Lamell Edm^ Sheart 

Abraham Heavlings W'' Martineau E'* Berry 
Jacob Perkins George Willis John Rogers 
Tho : Peachee John Jeayell.'' 

a door open to the gospel. 

Jlr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

" Philadelphia, 7th April, 1704, 

" Worthy Sir : 

" Mr. Keith has fought the good fight, finished his race, 
bravely defended the Faith, done the Church of Christ true and 
laudable service, Avhich I trust Avill be regarded here and 
rcAA^arded hereafter. I may say he has done more for the "Church 

fMr. Keith, the bearer of tliis Petition, thus speaks of its answer, "Some 
time ago, the Right Reverend Henry, Lord Bishop of London, has Avrit to him 
[Mr. Talbot] to fix at Burlington, to be Minister of the Church there, where 
there is now a large Congregation." 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



than any, yea than all that have been before him. He came 
out worthy of his mission and of tlie Gospell of Christ. Taking 
nothing of the Heathen that he came to proselyte ; besides his 
ordinary or rather extraordinary travels, his preaching excellent 
sermons upon all occasions, his disputes with all sorts of 
Heathens and Hereticks, (who superabound in these parts ; — 
Africa has not more monsters than America.) He has written 
or printed ten or a dozen Books and Sermons, much at his own 
charge, and distributed them freely ; which are all excellent in 
their kind, and have done good service all along shore. Now^ 
since friends must part, T pray God, shew some token upon him 
for good, that he may arrive safe in England where he would 
be, that all his adversaries may see it, and be ashamed of their 
impious omens, &c. I have one prayer more to God for the 
sake of his Church in the deserts, viz : That the Reverend and 
Honorable Corporation may find one amongst the thousands of 
the Reverend and Learned Clergy of England, worthy, honest, 
and willing to succeed, that the People of the Lord may not 
be scattered abroad in the wilderness like sheep without a Shep- 
hard. Xova Cesarea or New Jersey has been 

most unhappy ; there is not, nor ever was, an orthodox minister 
settled amongst them. But there is one Mr. Alexander Innes 
a man of great Piety and Probity, who has by his Life and 
Doctrine preached the Gospell, and rightly and duly adminis- 
tered the Holy Sacraments. We hope he will find favour wath 
the Noble Corporation because he is worthy, and has need of it ; 
as the people have need of him and are not so able or willing 
as we could wish to support the ministry ; — ^tis pity those hands 
should be put to dig that are fitt to cultivate the vineyard. 

If I had an Estate I could not have laid it out better than 
in the service of God, apud Americanos along with Mr. Keith, 
who is a true son of the Church of England, sound in Faith & 
holy in Life whom I love & reverence as my Father & Master, 
& shall J3e as Loath to part wdth him as if he were so indeed. 
Therefore I am the more obliged to the Reverend and Honor- 
able Society for their generous allowance to me, that I might 
not be burdensome to him nor to others, but beneficial to all as 



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far as we could goe. God be praised a Door is opened to the 
Gospel and the true light shines to them in the AVildernesSj but 
there are many adversaries ; and now our Champion is gone, we 
must make a running fight out by God's blessing and his books. 
I shall do my best. I mean to gather up the arrows that he has 
shot so well at the mark, and throw them again where there is 
most need. 

" Your most bumble 

" And obedient servant, 

" JoHX Talbot." 

THE PAETIXG OF KEITH AXD TALBOT. 

" April 23, Sunday, 1704. I preached at Annapolis in Mary- 
land, Col. Searaour Governour of Maryland, being present, who 
very kindly entertained us at his House both then and at other 
times, during our Abode there, as we waited for Passage down 
JTaryland-Bay to Jaraes- River in Virginia. Mr. Talbot accom- 
panied me from Philadelphia to Annapolis in Maryland, where 
with true Love and Affection, we did take our Farewell of one 
another, and he returned to serve God and his Church, as formerly, 
especially in Fensilvania, West and East-Jersey, where he was 
like to have the greatest Service and Success.'' Keith's Journcd. 

" TOUCH AXD GO, FEOM PLACE TO PLACE." 

3Ir. Tcdbot to Mr. Keith. 

York, October 20th, 1705. 

"Reyeeexd Sir : 

'•^Ve received advice from Barbadoes that your Fleet was 
arrived,! a confirmation of which we shall be glad to have from 
yourself. We the clergy in these Provinces, Pensilvania, X. 
Jersey, and N. York, being convened here by the directions of 
my Lord Cornbury and his Excellency Governour ^sicholson, 
to make a representation of the present state of affairs of the 
Church, which we have drawn up, in a scheme, and transmitted 

t "The 14lh August, I came to mv Family in London, safe and well, not- 
withstanding of the false Prophecy of some of the Quakers, That I should 
never see England any more, after my Departure out of it, in Aprd, 1(02.'' 
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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



to your venerable Society signed by the twelve apostles,! I mean 
to do in this Letter as I do in my Travels, touch and go from 
place to place, and tell you such things as I thought not so 
proper for the Public view. I got some hundreds of Fr. Buggs 
Books printed, which I had endorsed with a challenge and so 
was bound to answer it ; but I could not provoke the friends to 
it by no means. Xo they say, as they used to do, that they will 
answer in print. Then I offered to take the two Almanacks by 
Dan. Leeds and Caleb Pusey and prove them by Friends Books. 
I challenged y® latter at y^ head of his Regiment to come forth 
and see himself proved a Lyar, in y^ very same book and page 
where he most impudently charges G. K. D. L. and y® eight 
ministers of your Church of England. But all I could get of 
them at present was this sorry paper, False Xews from Gath,'' 
which I intend to answer with true news to Gath,^' Ashdod 
and the rest of the uncircumcised, unbaptized Philistines ; at 
length I appointed a meeting at Church, whether they would 
come or no, and there I exposed their errors before all men,, 
women and children that were there ; but none answered a 
word, though several Quakers were there, whilst I, Mr. Sharpe 
and Mr. Nichols examined y"^ '^Bomb,'' and D. L, Almanack 
by their books, and proved y® quotations true. I have hired a 
chamber at Burlington, where I keep the present collection of 
friends books; several of them came to me there and were satis- 
fied, but some desired me to set down my quotations book and 
page, which I promised to do at my leisure, particularly to one 
of their friends of y® ministry whom I believe will come off. I 
have forgot his name, he lives near Peter Chamberlain's in 
Pensilvania. Mr. Sharpe was very jealous to bring y® Quakers 
to stand a tryal ; he carried one of y^ Bombs into their meeting, 
and read a new challenge which I sent them, to answer what 
they had printed; but all in vain. Sam. Jennings stood up 
and said, ^Friends let's call upon God;' then they went to 
Prayer and so their meeting broke up. ' Since, I have read 



T There are now Thirteen Ministers in the Northern Parts of America, all 
phiced Avithin these two Years last past, and generally Supported and Main- 
tained by the Honourable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 
Farts. Keith's Journal. 



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57 



several scandalous Letters from several Quakers, whereby I see 
they are preparing War against me ; one was from AY. Bake- 
shaw, the same villain that pulled paper out of your hand 
last yearly meeting at Philadelphia. He said there was not a 
word of truth in the Bomb, and he would answer it but none 
appeared. Mr. Nichol, Mr. Sharp and I preached in our turns, 
proper sermons to warn y^ people of their errors, and heresies ; 
so we kept up y® Christian yearly meeting so happily begun by 
you at Philadelphia. Mr. Nichols gives his service to you, he 
is indeed an ingenious man, and will prove in all appearance an 
able hand against Quakerism. I have promised to set him up 
with friends, goods, &c. ; we mean to go down to Chester and 
give him a broad side there if the Governour will give us leave. 
They are all out at Philadelphia as much about Government as 
ever they were about religion. There is Charter against Com- 
mission and Major against Grovernour. They have 2 sheriffs, 
Captain Fenny appointed by Governor Evans, and yDung John 
Budd by y^ Major. Now the Governour proclaimed their pro- 
ceedings null and void, but G. Jones told him it was not he nor 
his, neither that should take away their Charter; so much for 
State affairs, you may hear all perhaps one of these days in 
"Westminster Hall, meanwhile here^s a Government divided 
against itself; God preserve his Church and let them that have 
the watch look out. There is a new meeting house built for 
Andrews, and almost finished since you came away, which I am 
afraid will draw avray great part of the Church, if there be not 
y^ greatest care taken of it ;, Mr. Rudman serves there some 
times, but chiefly at the Country Church (in Oxford near Frank- 
fort) with good success ; but he has met with some disturbance 
from Edward Eaton, who has been very pevish and scandalous 
in words and writings, for which he was presented to y^ Grand 
Jury, but it was hard to persuade them to find the Bill ; but 
wha£ will come of it I know not. 

" Mr. Sharp and I have gone the rounds several times from 
Burlington to Amboy, to Hopwell, to Elizabeth Town, to Staten 
Island in our turns, with good success, God be blessed, in all 
places. He has gathered a Church himself at Cheesquaks, 
where he preached several times; and baptized about forty per- 



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sons. Now I am alone, for my Lord Cornburj has preferred 
liim to be Chaplain of Her Majesty's Fort and Forces at X. 
York. I saw his Commission signed this day in y*" room of 
Mr. Mott who dyed about 3 months ago. I was loth to part 
with my good friend and companion in travel, but considering 
how he had been disappointed at home, I would not hinder his 
preferment abroad, hoping that the good providence of God and 
y^ venerable Society will supply his place. 

*'The Assembly sat at Burlington in September, but did 
nothing that my Lord desired them, so he dissolved them and 
called another there in October. Now I hear that Mr. Wheeler 
our good friend is chosen instead of Thomas Gardener. It 
seems their interest goes down thereabouts. Sam. Jennings 
complains that a man can't turn friend of truth now but he is 
ridiculed out of it. I hope the venerable Society will take Mr. 
Bradford's case into their consideration. It has cost me Ten 
pounds and more out of my Pocket to print some small books 
to give away, where I could not stay that the Church might be 
served and the Printer employed, without setting forth those 
that are erroneous. I know you will not forget y® Reverend 
Mr. James, who has been so zealous for y® service of y® Church, 
since you put him upon it. I count him as my father now you 
are gone, and indeed our Convocation had been at a Loss for a 
Foreman had not he supplied the place by his gravity and 
wisdom. I have drawn another Bill upon Mr. Hodges, not 
knowing when I should have so good opportunity ; besides I 
have been at more than ordinary charge for horses and cloaths, 
for I never received any from England since I came out of it. 
As for that parcel that my Friend Mr. Gillingham sent by 
Capt. Innifer, I can't hear what is become of it. My horse you 
know dyed at Burlington and y® Quakers recorded it as a judg- 
ment upon me. Ben. Wheat set it down in his Almanack, such 
a day of y 1st month, John Talbot's horse dyed, and Barnet 
Lane haled him into the river. But I was more sorry for the 
mare that you were so kind to give me, for she dyed before I 
came over the Bay in Maryland. I hope y^ venerable Society 
will see good to take you into their number, for it may be of use 
to them to have one there that has been here. I hope the 



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Letter will come safe to yoar hand by Mr. Eobert Owen minis- 
ter of a church in Maryland who is a very honest Gentleman. 
And indeed so are all the Missionarys in general^ especially the 
English one Mr. More, the only countryman we have amongst 
us, a man according to my own heart, I'm sorry he's to go so 
far oif as y® Mohocks, God knows whether we shall see him 
again. I had y® same call and had gone to the same place, but 
when I saw so many people of my own nation and tongue, I 
soon resolved by God's grace to seek them in y^ first place, and 
if we could not recover those that were fallen, yet by God's 
help w^e may keep them out of y^ pit of Quakers and Hereticks 
w^ho have denyed y"" Faith and are worse than Indians and 
Heathens who never knew it. 

" As for a Suffragan we are all sensible of y*" want we have of 
one, and pray God send us a man of peace, for otherwise he will 
do more harm than good, as proud, ambitious, covetous men 
used to do, troubling the State and perplexing the Church, and 
then they run away, and leave all in the lurch. I saw our 
honored friend. Coll. Nicholson, last month at Burlington, 
where he staid a week or ten days. I was obliged to him every 
way, particularly for his friendly advice in a case that was diffi- 
cult to me at that time, but I shall not mention names because 
I am resolved, by God's grace, to take heed what I say of any 
man, whether good or bad. 

" Coll. ^^''icholson took Bills of Mr. Bass for the money in 
hand, £70, Pensylvania money, and gave it all to the Churches 
in these Provinces, with Bills of Exchange to make it up £100 
sterling, besides what he subscribed to the Churches to be 
erected at Hopewell, Elizabeth Town, Amboy and Salem. We 
have made it appear that he has exhibited to the Churches in 
these Provinces about £1000 ; besides, what he has given to 
particular persons and the poor would amount to some hundreds 
more, which we did not think fit to mention. He is a man of 
as much prudence, tem})erance, justice, and fortitude as any 
Governor in America, without disparagement to any, and of 
much more zeal for the house and service of God. I have seen 
four of them together at Church in Burlington, but in the after- 
noon their place had been empty had it not been for the Honor- 



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able Governor Nicholson ; so that I can't but observe the 
example of his piety in the Church, is as rare as his bounty 
towards it; no wonder then that all that love the Church of 
England are fond of Governor Nicholson, who is a true son, or 
rather a nursing father, of her in America. I hope you will do 
him all the service you can at home whereby you will oblige all 
the Churches abroad. 

" Mr. Urquhart is well chosen for the people of Jamaica, and 
indeed I think none fitter than the Scotch Episcopal to deal with 
Whigs and Fanaticks of all sorts. Had not Stuttart been 
allowed to preach he had brought them all to the Church almost 
by this time ; but now^ they resort most to a barn that is hard 
by, and will not pay Mr. Urquhart what is allowed by Law^ 
though my Lord Cornbury has given his orders for it. Mr. John 
Lillingston designs, it seems, to go for England next year; he 
seems to be the fittest person that America affords for the office 
of a suffragan, and several persons, both of the Laity and Clergy, 
have wished he were the man ; and if my Lord of London 
thought fit to authorize him, several of the Clergy both of this 
Province and of Maryland have said they would pay their 
tenths unto him, as my Lord of London's Vicegerent, w^iereby 
the Bishop of America might have as honorable provision as 
some in Europe. Ah, Mr. Keith, I have wanted you but once, 
that is ever since you went. I pray God supply your place 
with such another, who will pass through all Governments 
serving the Church, without giving offence unto the State. I 
hope, good Sir, you will excuse this long Letter. I had not 
time to write a short one ; therefore, amicitia nostra, I desire 
that you Avould take all in good part that comes from 
Your most faithful friend 

''And humble servant, 

^' John Talbot." 

william budd and others. 
" At Burlwgton in West-Jersey, there is now a settled Con- 
gregation, with a fixed Minister, to wit, the Reverend Mr. John 
Talbot, my Fellow^ Labourer, where there is a large Congrega- 
tion, and a considerable Number of Communicants, many of 
them having been formerly Quakers, and Quakerly aifected, or 



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61 



such as were of no particular denomination. And such of them 
as had not been Baptized in Infancy, have received Baptism, 
partly by Mr. Evans, & partly by Mr. Talhot, & some of 
them by me. Mr. Talbot has Baptized most of them who have 
been Baptized, since our Arrival among them, and particularly 
all the Children, both Males and Females, of William Budd, 
who formerly was a Quaker-Preacher, but is come over from 
Quakerism, to the Church, w^ith diverse others of the Neigh- 
bourhood, in the Country about the Town of Burlington, who 
come usually to the Church at Burlington on the Lord's-Day ; 
some of them, Six, Eight, and some of them Ten, or Twelve 
Miles, and some of them more." Keith's Journal. 

THE CLEEGY MEET AT BURLINGTOX. 

The Clergy of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 
met in Burlington, Nov. 2d, 1705, when the following Address 
was drawn up, signed, and sent under cover to the Lord Bishop 
of London : 

To the Most Reverend Fathers in God the Lord Abps., the 
Right Reverend the Bishops, and others Right Honourable 
Members of the Society Erected for Propagation of the Gospel 
in Foreign Parts. 

" Your Missionaries being convened at Burlington esteem 
themselves in duty bound to lay before the Most Reverend, the 
Right Reverend & Right Honorable Members of the Society, 
what we conceive to be necessary, with God's blessing on our 
Labours, to promote the ends of our Mission. The presence 
and assistance of a Suffragan Bishop is most needful to ordain 
such persons as are fit to be called to serve in the sacred Minis- 
try of the Church. AYe have been deprived of the advantages 
that might have been received of some Presbyterian & Indepen- 
dent Ministers that formerly were, and of others that are still 
willing to conform & receive the Holy Character, for want of a 
Bishop to give. The Baptized want to be confirmed. Their 
presence is necessary in the Councils of these Provinces to pre- 
vent the inconveniences which the Church labors under by the 
Influences which Seditious Men's Counsels have upon the public 
administration & the oppositions which they make to the good 
inclinations of well affected people. He is wanted not only to 



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govern and direct us, but to Cover us from tlie Malignant 
Effects of those misrepresentations that have been made by some 
persons impower'd to admonish and inform against us, who 
indeed want admonition themselves. It is our humble desire that 
the Custom of the Romans of not Condemnino^ Men before they 
be heard may be of Force with the Most Reverend, the Right 
Reverend & Right Hon'ble Members of the Society, for we find to 
our Grief that those Characters given of us by those persons have 
made sad impressions on your minds, as have in some measure 
lessened our reputation, w^hich is dearer to us than all Your En- 
couragements which we have received by Your Bounty. And it 
is our humble prayer that no Credit hereafter be given by the 
Society to any Complaints against us but such as are under the 
hands of three of the Clergy, The Provinces of X ew York, the 
Jerseys and Pennsylvania consist of People of several ISations, 
& have Preachers among them that speak to them in their own 
Tongues. The Dutch and the French being of the Presbiterian 
Perswasion And the former generally tainted with Republican 
Principles, it is humbly proposed that there be no preacher per- 
mitted to preach among them but in the English Tongue, or at 
least of Episcopal Ordination, that can preach both in English 
& in their own Tongues, jSTor any schoolmasters to Teach any 
Vulgar Language, but the English, without a particular license 
from the Governor, till God bless us with a Bishop. This last 
Expedient is thought by the Governor to be a likely means of 
uniting the Country both in their religious and Civil interests 
^ ^ — and humbly beg Your Benediction & 

Prayers, and crave leave to subscribe ourselves, as we are, 
" Most Reverend, Right Reverend 

" & Right Honorable, Your most 

^' Obedient & humble Serv'ts, 
" BuelixCtTOX, Xov'r 2, 1705. 

" John Talbot, Andrew Rudman, 

Ericus Biorck, Hen. Nicols, 

Evan Evans, Geo. Ross, 

Sam. Myles, Tho. Crawford, 

Tho Moore, Jno. Sharpe, 

^Eneas Mackenzie,. John Brooke, 

Geo. Muirson,, John Clubb.'^ 



IX BUKLIXGTOX. 



63- 



THE LETTER COMMENDATORY. 

" To the Lord Bishop of London, 
" May it please Your Lordship : 

"We being convened at Burlington have drawn up an 
Account of the State of the Church in those parts which we 
think necessary to add to our last years Scheme. We have 
enclosed a letter to the Society which we humbly offer to your 
Lordships view. We have likewise drawn and signed a peti- 
tion to the Queen for a Suffragan Bishop, but have sent it to 
Your Lordship not so much to present as to determine whether 
it be Convenient to be presented to her Majesty. Our inex- 
pressible wants of one to represent your Lordship here make us 
nse all the means we can think of towards the obtaining that 
blessing. Indeed our case upon that Account is very lamentable 
and no words are sufficient to express it. We shall have the 
less need to lay before your Lordship the further want of Min- 
isters for West Jersey, Long Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania 
&c., in regard our Reve"^ Brother M'" Talbot who has been 
an Itinerant Missionary is very capable of giving your Lordship 
a particular account of all our church alfairs. We shall only 
desire Your Lordship to have a particular regard to what he 
shall say concerning the case of M"" Rudman, M"" Boudet, M"" 
Eburn and M"" Biorck whose circumstances are very pressing, 
and their labours have been very great and successful. We 
humbly beg Your Lordships blessing, and beg leave to subscribe 
ourselves,t 

" My Lord 

" Your Lordships most obedient Sons & Serv^^ 
" JoHX Brooke. Etax Eya^sS. Geo : Ross. 

JoKX CLrBB. ■ HexiXicols. And: Rudmax. 

JoHX Sharpe. JExeas Mackexzie. Alex : Ixxes. 
Geo : MuiRSox. Tho : Crawford. Thor : Moore. 
Ericus Biorck. Sam. Myles.^' 
Burlington Xw. 2^ 1705. 



f Some of the signers of these papers were clergy of the Church of Sweden 
— a beautiful instance of the Catholic intercommunion of those clays. 



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THE REV. THOEOWGOOD MOORE. 

Mr. Moore to Mr. Hodges. 

N. York, Nov. 14, 1705. 

''Dear Sir: 

* ^'I have now left Albany and the Indians 
without any thought of returning. >k * * j j^fj- 
Albany 12th the last and have since been in the Jerseys seeing 
where I may be most servicable and how I may regain the time 
I have lost. I find there great want of ministers and therefore 
shall spend my time chiefly there till I hear from the Society 
and particularly at Burlington the chief town there during the 
Rev'd Mr. Talbots absence I have proposed to the society my 
being Missionary ad Libitum and that they would allow another 
for some time till there are Missionarys sent to supply all places. 
Mr. Talbot is now going for England chiefly for the good of the 
Church and therefore I hope he will hav^e your particular friend- 
ship and all the favour the society can give him. I can't say I 
ever saw^ a man of greater zeal and industry for the glory of 
God, and the good of his Church. I am &c &c 

"Tho^-: Moore." 

mr. talbot in exgland. 
3Ir. Tcdbot to the Society for Propagating the Gospel. 

" London, March 14, 1706. 
3Iay it 'please the Reverend and 

Right Honorable Society for Propagating the Gospel: 
^' After I had travelled with Mr. G. Keith through nine or 
ten Provinces between New England and. North Carolina, I 
took my leave of him in Maryland. The Assembly then sitting 
offered me £100 sterling to go and Proselite their Indians ; but 
my call was to begin at home, and to teach our own People first, 
whose Language we did understand ; so I returned to Burling- 
ton to finish the Church which was happily begun there. Mr. 
Sharpe came to my assistance Avhere I left him to supply that 
hopeful and infant Church, whilst I went to East Jersey for 
Amboy, Elizabeth Town, AYoodbridge and Staten-Island. This 
we did by turns about half a year till Mr. Mott dyed who was 



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65 



Chaplain of the Queen's Fort and Forces at New York. I was 
offered this place also, where I should have Board and Lodging 
and £130 per annum, paid weekly ; but nothing could tempt 
me from the service of the Society who were pleased to adopt 
me into their service, before I had the honour to know them. 
Mr. Sharpe was glad to embrace this offer ; so I travelled alone, 
doing what good I could, till last Summer, I met with Mr. John 
Brook who brought me a letter from my Lord of London and 
orders to fix at Burlington, as I did till November last. There 
was a general meeting of the Missionarys who resolved to 
address the Queen for a suffragan Bishop, that I should travel 
with it, and make known the requests of some of the Brethren 
abroad, w^hose case we had recommended formerly by Letter to 
the Venerable Society, but without success. It will be four 
years next June since I associated with Mr. Keith. I was 
allowed £60 per annum for three years, but for the last I had 
nothing neither here nor there. I have no Business here but to 
solicit for a Suffragan, Books and Ministers for the propagating 
the Gospel. God has so blessed my Labors and Travels abroad 
that I am fully resolved by his Grace to return, the sooner the 
better, having done the Business that I came about; meanwhile 
my Living in Gloucestershire is given away, but I have no 
reason to doubt of any Encouragement from this famous Society 
who have done more in four years for America than ever was 
done before ; and your Petitioner will ever pray. God bless 
all our Benefactors in Heaven and Earth, and reward them for 
ever, for all the Good they have done to the Church in general 
and in particular to 

Your most humble servant and 

Obedient Missionary, 

" John Talbot." 

mr. talbot eager to return. 
Mr. Talbot to the Seci-etary. 

London, April 16th, 1707. 

" Honored Sir : 

I have received several letters from my friends in America 
who long for my return, which I was forward to do once and 

e 



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again, but Satan hindered me by raising lies and slanders in my 
way. But I have cleared myself to all that have heard me, 
and I hope you will satisfy the Honorable Society that I am 
not the man to whom that dark character did belong. Mr. 
Keith has known my doctrine and manner of life some years, 
what I have ventured, suffered and acted for the Gospel of 
Christ abroad and at home. I desire his letter may be read to 
the Honorable Board, and that they will be pleased to dispatch 
me, the sooner the better, for the season is far spent, and the 
ships are going out, and if I go at all, I would go quickly. I 
know the wants of the poor people in America. They have 
need of me or else I should not venture my life to do that 
abroad which I could do more to my own advantage at home. 
I should be glad to see somebody sent to Xorth Carolina. I 
hope the Planters' letters are not quite forgotten. 'Tis a sad 
thino; to live in the wilderness like the wild Indians without 
God in the world. 

Your humble Servant, 

" JoHX Talbot." 

A PRISOXER I]S" FOET AN^'E. 

Mr. Moore to the Secretary. 

" Fort Anne, Aug^* 27''^ 1707. 

Sir, 

" This comes to inform you of what at first without doubt 
will be no small surprise to you and that is that one of the 
Society's Missionaries is no other than a prisoner and his mission 
confined within the walls of a Fort. The missionary is myself, 
who am now a prisoner in Fort Anne in the city of New York ; 
but how I came into this province and what is my crime you 
can't I believe but be impatient to know : be pleased then to 
take the following acc^ and to communicate it to the Society. 

" As to the first I was brought hither by force which was 
after this manner, (viz) about a month ago his Excellency my 
Lord Cornbury Gov"" in chief of the Province of N. Jersey, 
York, &c, being then at York sent a summons for me to appear 
before him at I*^. York to answer to such things as should be 
alleged against me. 



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67 



" I was not long considering what to clo^ being only to consult 
the legality of the summons and whether the law commanded 
mv obedience, which, if it did not, I knew of no other obligation, 
but had many reasons to the contrary ; as the leaving my charge 
without any to supply my place, and the uncertainty indeed of 
mv return (I being well satisfied that my Lord had often 
declared that he would remove me out of the province for 
reasons scarce worth while troubling the Society with) &c, so 
that I say I had only to consider whether my Lord had that 
power to summon me out of the province, and a little considera- 
tion was sufficient to satisfy me he had not ; X. Jersey being 
certainly a distinct province from this of Xew York, as Virginia 
is ; and the power of Government (I am well informed and it 
necessarily must be so) upon the death or absence of my Lord 
Cornbury to be lodged in the Lieutenant Governor and upon 
the death or absence of the Lieutenant Governor, in the council. 
But upon my not obeying this summons, His Excellency, the 
Lord Cornbury sends a warrant dated from N. York, to the 
Sheriff of Burlington, to bring me safe to his Lordship's house, 
at Amboy, about 50 miles from Burlington, in the same prov^ince, 
which accordingly he executed. He took me into his custody 
the 15th and brought me to Amboy the 16th inst., being Satur- 
day, where we found his excellency arrived from N. York. His 
excellency told the Sheriff he had done very well in bringing me 
thither and ordered him (by word of mouth) to secure me and 
bring me before him on Monday morning, which accordingly he 
did, but his Excellency, it is to be supposed, being otherv/ays 
busy'd that morning, ordered I should be brought in the after- 
noon and then the next morning when he was pleased to send 
for me into a private room where were only the Lieutenant Gov- 
ernor and himself. His excellency, after some w^ords of auger, 
not worth mentioning, and which if I did, would oblige me to 
say a great deal more in the order to explaining them, began to 
condemn my behaviour to him ever since my first arrival into 
America, siding with his and the Government's enemies ; and 
that I was a preacher of Eebellion (which I think he seemed to 
intimate I did by my conversation and not by my sermons, 
though I think he might have said the one as well as the other) 



6S HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



and that I had shown my rebellious temper particularly in not 
obeying the Lieutenant Governor's suspension of me. But thi- 
now obliges me to say something of that matter whicli in short 
shall be this : Upon my not obeying my Lord's summons to 
York (which I told you I received about a month &ince) the 
Lieutenant Governor, Coll : Ingoldsby told me before two or 
three persons that for that reason he suspended me from preach- 
ing or performing any divine service in Burlington ; but I tcld 
him I did not think he had that power and so I left him. But 
he I suppose, thinking that that was not sufficient, was resolved 
to publish it by writing and so ordered the secretary of the 
province to draw up a form which accordingly he did and the 
Lieutenant Governor signed it and commanded him to take care 
that it was set up at the churches doors ; but the Secretary con- 
sidering that he had no sufficient warrant for so unaccountable 
proceedings went to him the next day and told him that he did 
not think he could safely do it ; but that if it was to be set up it 
was, he thought, the church wardens business, accordingly he 
ordered the paper to be directed to the church wardens and 
delivered to them. The secretary himself was one and went 
with the paper to the other church warden to know his mind, 
but he being more than ordinary averse to it, they agreed not to 
set it up, so that I believe I can obtain the original paper signed 
by the Lieutenant Governor, but however I can get a copy of it 
attested by the church wardens. But to return ; His Excel- 
lency, my Lord Cornbury told me the Lieutenant Governor 
had done very well in suspending me — that he confirmed his 
suspension and discharged me from preaching any more in that 
or the neighboring province. I told his Excellency that I was 
very sorry to hear that and beg'd his Excellency would judge 
favorably of me if I did not obey him in that particular, and 
believe that it proceeded from a sense of duty that I ought not 
and not out of obstinacy, but however I would take the best 
advice I could get about this and act according to my conscience. 
He told me that he would be obeyed, that my conscience should 
not rule him. I told him I could not expect that, but begged 
I might be excused if it did me. He told me that he would be 
obeyed and that if I did not he would use me like other Rebels. 



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69 



He asked me farther who I thought myself to bee. I told him 
a minister of the church placed at Burlington, both by the laws 
of God and man as being placed there by my Lord of London. 
He told me my Lord of London did not place me there. I 
told him I humbly conceived he did by a letter I had from the 
Secretary of the Society of which my Lord of London was a 
member, and so I read him part of the letter relating to that 
matter. He told me my Lord of London (and I am pretty well 
satisfied he said the Society too) had no power to place me there 
nor anywhere else in his Government, neither ever did he place 
any, and that the Queen had invested him with that sole power 
and that he was ordinary. 

I told him if he was ordinary, I would not make any oppo- 
sition, but that I was not sensible of, &c. Bat to conclude, his 
excellency told me that since my obedience was so uncertain, he 
would secure me from disobeying, and so ordered the Sheriff 
(which came into the room a little before) to continue me in his 
custody, so he took away his prisoner and so- I continued till 
Saturday when I was commanded to attend his Excellency 
vrhom I found gone from his house in order to go aboard of his 
barge for N. York. I found him at a house about a Bows shot 
from the water side. The Sheriff having spoken to my Lord, 
told me he was commanded to attend me into the barge. I told 
him I could not understand that, however that I Avould not go 
unless I was forced, but the Sheriff going again to my Lord 
into the house (for I was at the door) and returning with fresh 
commands, I went a little way with him to the other side of the 
house, where I found my Lord. I told his Excellency what I 
told the Sheriff'. His Excellency asked me then whether I 
wanted to be carryed. I answered him something like it. He 
then commanded the Sheriff again to do his office, but he being 
unwilling to do that which his Lordship called so, his Lordship 
commanded the Amboy Sheriff who stood by to take me and 
force me to go (upon which the Lieutenant Governor command- 
ing him likewise) he took me by the sleeve so we went with 
the rest of the company towards the water side, but as we were 
walking I told the Sheriff the danger of what he was doing and 



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bade him have a care how he forced me. "When I was come 
pretty near the barge I told his Excellency that I wished him a 
good voyage and tliat I designed to go not farther unless I was 
forced to it (for the Sheriff had not then hold of me) my Lord 
in great anger bid the Sheriff again do his office, and the Lieu- 
tenant Governor commanding the same, but the Sheriff refasing^ 
to obey them, my Lord comes himself to me and takes me by 
my gown and sleeve and leads me about ten paces, but being 
perswaded by the Lieutenant Governor, or rather more probably 
by other reasons he leaves me again to the Sheriff, who, encour- 
aged by my Lord's example and the earnestness of the Lieuten- 
ant Governor to him to take me, did so, and took hold of my 
gown and went before me into my Lord's barge in which my 
Lord brought me to York, being about 40 miles from Amboy. 
When I came ashoare I w'ent with my Lord and the rest of the 
company to the Fort, thinking it in vain to make any farther 
opposition then and likewise being disswaded from that by one 
that I know wished me well. When we came into the Forfc 
my Lord desired his Chaplain to take me into his room and told 
the officer of the guard that I was a prisoner and ordered him 
to give directions to the under officers to prevent my escape, aud 
here I have been ever since. 

The day after I came in being Sunday, Mr. Sharpe, my 
Lord's Chaplain, asked my Lord whether I might not go to 
church ; he told him no, and moreover said that F should not 
go without the wails till I was sent to England. I thank God 
I fare very well here, liis Lordship haviug given orders that I 
should want for nothing. 

"And thus I have told you as near as I could how I came 
hither with almost every particular circumstance ; and withall 
my crime. This can't but seem to the Society very strange 
and wou'd so to everybody here, w^ere they not by unhappy ex- 
perience but too well acquainted with his Ldship's conduct. 
I know not how long his Exc'y will keep me here, I am apt to 
think a good while and therefore hope the Society will apply to 
the Queen as soon as may be that I may be released and that no 
Governour may attempt the like for the future, but I refuse not 



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to be tryed before proper Judges in the most pnblick manner if 
her Majesty thinks fit, being conscious to myself that I have 
done nothing that deserves the usage I have met with ; but if 
I have offended I hope I shall very willingly suffer the deserved 
punishment. 

" I hope my present and late sufferings will be no disadvan- 
tage to the Church. I am well satisfy ed in my mind of the con- 
trary and that I shall have reason to bless God for enabling me 
to act as I have done in relation to my Lord Cornbury and the 
Lieutenant Gov'' by which and other means I hope her Majesty 
will in time be well acquainted with those Gentlemen. I think 
'tis time now to think of concluding. I will therefore only add 
that I know not the least shadow of a reason that my Lord 
Cornbury can produce to the world for the usage he has showed 
me and therefore hope the Society will be as speedy as may be 
in applying to the Queen for my relief and for prevention of 
anything of the like for the future. 
" I am Sir, 

Your very humble Servant, 

Tho : MOOEE." 

CAUSES OF COEXEUEY's DISPLEASUEE. 

31}'. Jlcore to the Secretarial. 

''Fort Anne, Aug' 1707 

" SlE 

" It is but just now almost that I finished a long Letter to 
you which goes by the way of Barbadoes ; if that came safe to 
your hands, I suppose it did not a little surprise the Society by 
acquainting them with the imprisonment of one of their Mis- 
sioners which is myself now confined in Fort Anne in the city 
of Xew York brought hither in the most arbitrary and illegal 
manner that I believe they ever heard, the particulars I will not 
now^ mention because a Copy of that whole Letter (if you have 
not already received it) will be sent or delivered you with this, 
for the Rev*^ M"" John Brooke (to whom I deliver this unsealed) 
has a Copy of it which with this he will send (though he is 



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coming himself) by all occasions. He is going towards Boston 
in Order for England if he be not confined before he leave this 
place which I am something fearful of and am well satisfied he 
would be if his Excellency My Lord Cornbiiry knew of his 
design of going home. 

5^ >!< ^; ^ >|< ;«{ 

I am thinking the Society will be inquisitive to know the 
reason of my Lord's displeasure against me, but when they are 
acquainted with his Lordship's Character I am sure they will 
cease inquiring and be satisfied 1 could not faithfully discharge 
ray duty, and shew my respect and value for men of piety and 
real worth and have his Friendship ; and indeed I know noth- 
ing has more contributed to my displeasing his Lordship than 
my acquaintance and intimacy with those I thought good men 
and promoters of the public Good some of which have been my 
acquaintance and intimate friends from my frst arrival in 
America and which is the worst of it, I know none of them 
either in New York or New Jersey that are his ; but in short 
the chief nay only cause of his Lordship's pulling me out of New 
Jersey and transporting me to York I do verily believe is his 
persuasion that I have been and still am a block in the way of 
some of his designs (though I thank God I don't know I ever 
troubled myself with state matters) which w^ith some others must 
necessarily be removed. What his Lordship designs to do with 
me now I know not ; I am apt to think I shall continue here 
a good while, for the same reason that induced his Lordship to 
confine me, will probably prevail with him to continue me where 
I am ; I am apt to think till I have the Queen's Commands 
for my release nay longer, if his Lordship (which God forbid) 
continues in the Government, I say God forbid he knows, not for 
my own sake but the good of others ; for I bless God through 
his assistance I am very easy being well convinced that there is 
nothing of this that has happened to me but what is ordained 
by the wise hand of providence ; and I can truly say I am scarce 
sensible of the difference between Liberty and confinement. 

" I am tempted to say something of the illegality of his Lord- 
ship's proceedings, I think I could show a Gradation of v^ery 
many unlawful steps he has taken from his first summons of me 



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73 



to York to his coDfiniiig me there but you will easily see them 
in the Account I have given (and which M"" Brooke will con- 
firm) of the matters of fact ; I need only add, what I remember 
I omitted in my last, that there is a County (I think it is called 
Middlesex) between Burlington and Amboy through which my 
Lord by his Warrant which M?" Brooke will show you, com- 
manded the Burlington Sheriff to bring me. 

"As to the irregularities his Lordship seems to intimate I 
am chargeable with in his summons and warrant (both which 
Brooke has) they may easily be imagined to be only preten- 
ces for sending them. I bless God I know of none that I am 
accountable to him for. His Lordship indeed has told me of 
some things in his anger which either he did or would have me 
think were so, but I think them not worth mentioning, only 
one I will and that was that I had the Sacrament too often 
(which I had when I well could once a fortnight) which fre- 
quently he was pleased to forbid but I minded that as little as I 
the Lieutenant Governor and afterwards his suspension, thinking 
his power in both much the same and this puts me in mind of 
the several times his Lordship commanded me to appear before 
him, and that the last from York was but the 4*'' command. I 
had to attend him twice before he called me from Burlington to 
Amboy which are 50 miles distant. 

" Sir, though I would not be tedious yet I can't forbear making 
a humble proposal to the Society which is that they would be 
pleased to use their Interest with her Majesty in order to their 
obtaining leave for the recommending proper persons to be Gov- 
ernors of these parts, men of good morals if not of true religion, 
but alas ! why not the latter, every one knows the powerful 
influence of the example of the King or Governor and indeed 
the Society will find themselves extremely deceived and the 
success not answerable to their pious care if there be not very 
different men sent over for these parts than what are now and 
have been heretofore. But, I must think of concluding which 
shall be with my best wishes and hearty prayers for the truly 
Venerable Society that God would give them true wisdom fer- 
vent zeal and indefatigable Industry in the prosecution of that 
great and glorious work they have undertaken ; their minutes 



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now are very precious for they are now laying the foundation 
of a Church in a flourishing part of the World which must be 
well and speedily laid. I am 
" Sir 

Your very humble Serv^ 

"Thor: Moore/' 

mr. talbot arrives from england. 
Mr. Talbot, having reached America, was in Boston, in 
November, 1707; where he was ^'much surprised to meet'' Mr. 
Moore and Mr. Brooke. They gave him a detailed account of 
the treatment they had received, and how they had escaped ; and 
told him of their determination to embark for home. He 
remonstrated against their taking a Winter passage ; "but," says 
Talbot — writing about it nine months afterwards — "poor Tho- 
rowgood said, if they were sunk in the sea, they did not doubt but 
God would receive them, since they were persecuted for doing 
their duty to the best of their knowledge." 

THE WILL OF , REV. MR. MOORE. 

" Being now ab* to Leave America & not knowing whether 
it shall please y*^ Allm: God y*' I ever shall live to return; I 
do by these presents declare y*, if I do not, I do freely give all 
my Books now at y^ House of Rob^ Wheeler Esq"" w"' a large 
Chest to put them in, to y^ use of y® Minister for y® time being 
of y® Church of England in Burlington in I^ew Jersey & to his 
successors for ever, Reserving ten pounds worth sterling of 
them w*^^ belong of Right to y® Venerable Society for propaga- 
ting y^ Gospel in Foreign parts & Hamond on y*" New Testam', 
w^^^ I leave to my Faithfull Friend M^ Rob^ Wheeler of s^^ 
Town of Burlington. 

" In Witness whereof I have set my hand & seal this 

day of Novemb'' one thousand seven hundred & seven. 

" Tho^ Moore, [l. s.] " 

" Sign'd, sealed & delivered 
In y® presence of us 
Samuel Myles 
Tho: Barclay 
John Brooke 
John Talbot" 



IN BURLIXGTOX. 



WILL OF THE EEV; JOHX BEOOKE. 

I John Brooke Clerk one of Missionarys of y® Rev'^ and 
Hon^^^ Society for propagating y^ Gospel in Foreign parts being 
now about to leave America and to undertake a long and dan- 
gerous voyage to England and not knowing whether it shall 
please the Almighty y* I ever live to arrive there, I do by these 
presents certify y* if T dye in y* my intended voyage I do freely 
give my Dear Brothers Richard Brooke and William Brooke of 
Clark-Heaton near Bradford in Yorkshire y® half years Salary 
due to my executor after my decease by y® Bounty of y^ said 
Society, and whatever else my Sister Agnes Hull in Basing hall 
street in London has of mine in her hands. In witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twentieth 
day of November in y® yeare of our Lord one thousand seven 
hundred and seven. 

^^JoHX Beooke, [l. S.1 

Signed Sealed and delivered 
in y® presence of us 
John Talbot 
Rob: Owen 
John Brocas 
Hugh Tenables" 

COEXBUEY's ACCOEXT of MOOEE and BEOOKE. 

Lord Cornhury to the Secretary. 

New York 29th Nov 1707. 

"Sie: 

"Yours of the 18th of April 1706 came to my hands on the 
13th instant for Avhich I return you thanks. I intreat you to 
assure the Honorable Society that nothing shall be wanting on. 
my part to promote their good and pious designs to the utmost 
of my power and understanding. I could wash all those Gentle- 
men whom the Honorable Society have sent over had by a care- 
full performance of their duty answered the intent of their 
mission and it is with a great deal of grief that I am obliged to 
say that Mr. Thorowgood Moore and Mr. Brookes have not 
only not answered the intent of their mission but have done the 
church more harm than I am afraid they will ever do it good. 
I did in my letter of the 23d of August give you an account of 
the behaviour of Mr. Moore to the Lieutenant Gov"" Colonel 
Ingoldsby at Burlington on Easter day 1706. I hope that 
letter came safe to your hands. I am sorry to find that Mr, 



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]\foores behaviour in that case Jias very near ruined that church 
but having Avrit to you fully upon that unpleasant subject before, 
I shall forbear saying anything of it now but shall proceed to 
give you an account of Mr. Brooke's last method of proceeding 
here in these parts : Mr. Brookes hearing that I had brought Mr. 
Moore to this place with me came to visit him frequently here, 
tho' at the same time he neglected his Churches in East Jersey. 

^^On the 12th day of September I left this place to go to 
Albany leaving directions with my family to take care that Mr. 
Moore should want for nothing in my absence; about ten days 
after I had left I^ew York I had letters to acquaint me that Mr. 
Moore had made his escape out of the Fort and that Mr. Brookes 
& he were gone oif together, I took no notice of it till I 
returned to New York which was on the 12th of Oct^, then I 
enquired of the OfBcer of the guard what was become of Mr. 
Moore, who told me that the day he made his escape Mr. 
iBrookes & Mr. Morris had dined with him, that after dinner 
Mr. Brookes went away and returned about 4 of the clock and 
coming through the gate asked the Century if he had orders to 
stop any body, who told him no. Mr. Brookes went up to Mr. 
Moore's room & in a few minutes Mr. Moore came down & 
went out of the Fort and a little afterwards Mr. Brookes, upon 
which the Century finding his error called his officer who 
immediately ran out of the Fort but could not find Mr. Moore. 

'^On the 16th of Oct-, I left this place to go to Amboy to 
meet the Assembly of New Jersey, when I arrived there I 
enquired for Mr. Brookes. I was told he was gone to New 
England with Mr. Moore. I could not believe it at first for 
tho' I knew him to be very indiscreet in many things yet did 
not think him mad enough to leave his Churches but upon 
farther enquiry I found that after having travelled from place 
to place to get the ministers of the provinces of New York, New 
Jersey & Pensilvania to sign a petition to the Queen against 
me he was gone to join Mr. Moore in New England in order 
to go for old England together.; now if the ministers which 
the Hon^'^® Society think fit to send -over and maintain here are 
to be independent of the Govern meaat under no controul & at 
J! liberty to do what they .please to go where they please it is but 



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77- 



reasonable that those who have the honour to serve the Queen 
as Governors of Provinces ought to have it signified to them, 
that they may not intermeddle with them, how it will be for 
the service of the Church to have it so I submit to better Judg- 
ment but sure I am that Mr. Moore's asserting as he did in all 
companies at Burlington that the Gov"" had no authority over 
him, that he was accountable to nobody but to my Lord Bishop 
of London & that he would order the affairs of the Church as 
he thought proper has done the Church no service no more than 
his affronting the Lieu* Gov^ as is before mentioned. * * 
''I aui Sir 

" Your very humble Servant 

" CORNBUEY.'^ 



A GOVEEXOE NEEDED IX CHURCH AND STATE. 

3L\ Talbot to the Secretary. 

"N. York Jan. 10th 170J 

" HoxoRED Sir : 

" I got safe here, blessed be God, at Christmas, but I can't pro- 
ceed, no boat can cross the Sound for Ice. >^ ^ 
1 saw the Hon^^^ Col. Heatheote who is the finest gentleman I 
have seen in America. I wish the report were true that he were 
appointed Gov^, it would be the best news next to that of the 
Gospell that ever came over. Methinks 'tis an easy matter for 
some of the Hon^^"" Society to prevail with the Queen that one 
of your Hon^^® members might be a Gov'' she having promised 
to be all ways ready to do her part towards the carrying on so 
good a work, wdiich cannot be carryed on without a good Gov'' in 
Church and State. Now Bishop Heatheote would serve for 
Both the best of any I know, if he had but his commission. 
We live in hopes and the wicked in fears that their days will be 
shortened. I pray God for his elects sake they may, and mode- 
ration in getting of money may take place; the want of that is 
the root of all evil. I am to send Colonel Heatheote my travel- 
ling library that he may try his hand with the Stiflfnecked 
Quakers; he if anybody will persuade them to see; he has the 
best temper of all, if a man cou'd hit it to be gentle towards all. 



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HISTOEY OF THE CHUECH 



men and zealons of all good works. Some courses must be taken 
with these Anti Christians who are worse than the Turks and if 
they be let alone will encrease to an abominable desolation. I 
shall sav no more but betake myself to my prayers. Arise, O 
Lord Jesu Christ, help us, and deliver us for tliine honour. 
Since Mr. Brooke Mr. Moore and Mr. Evans went away there's 
an Independancy set up again at Elizabeth Town, Auabaptism 
at Burlington and the Popish Mass at Philadelphia. I thought 
that the Quakers would be the first to let it in, particularly Mr. 
Penn, for if he has any religion ^tis that, but thus to tollerate all 
without controul is the way to have none at all. My duty and 
service to the members of the Honorable Society; if they can do 
anything now is the time. I hope they will consider of them 
in time; so God prosper their good endeavors, and these of, 
Sir, yours &c 

JoHX Talbot.^' 
" I hope Mr. Bix)oke and Mr. Moore are safe arrived. There 
was the wisdom of the Serpent and the innocency of the 
Dove in those men, but neither will protect them from evil 
speaking &c.'' 

AXOTHEE ACCOr^'T OF THE TROUBLE. 

Col. Quciry to the Bishop of London. Extract. 

Philadelphia 20th Jan^ ITOf 
'^^ ^^I am obliged to give your Lordship some account 

of another gentleman of the clergy one Mr. Moore who goes for 
England with Mr. Brooke, or rather Mr. Brooke goes with him ; 
this gentleman I have always had a great value for, the first 
time I saw him was at Albany when I attended my Lord hither 
his Lordship paid him all imaginable kindness and respect the 
design of his mission was to live among the Indians but that not 
answerino; his Excellencv consented to his o-oino; to Burlino^ton 
in order to supply the Eev Mr. Talbot on his going for Eng- 
land ; he had not been settled long in that place before an 
unhappy difference fell out between the Queen's Lieutenant 
Governor Colonel Ingoldsby and Mr. Moore * the 

Lieutenant Governor had a very great kindness for him and in 



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79 



riding out with him to pay a visit or take the air amongst 
variety of subjects they discoursed of Mr. Moore asked Colonel 
Ingoldsby if he had so much patience and christian temper as 
to take a Box on the ear without resentment or returning the 
injury to which he answered with some warmth that he neither 
would nor could take such an affront from any man without a 
due resentment whether this may be called a proper question or 
an ensnaring one considering the Lieut. Governors circum- 
stances being a soldier and got his living by his sword I will 
leave your Lordship to judge * some short time 

after Mr. Moore had appointed a sacrament at Burlington 
church the Colonel and his Family resolved to be partakers and 
in order to it w^as constantly all the week before at the Morning 
and Evening prayers in the church. Mr. Moore very well 
knew that it was his design to be a communicant. The Sunday 
came Colonel Ingoldsby with his Lady and Daughter were at 
church ; after the Sermon was ended and all things in a readi- 
ness for approaching to the Holy Ordinance Mr. Moore came 
to the Colonel's seat I think as he was going out of it and asked 
him if he was of the same opinion that he had formerly declared, 
the question surprised the Colonel who had forgot the discourse 
so that he told him that he did not know what he meant but 
Mr. Moore having put him in mind of the time place and cir- 
cumstances the Lieutenant Governor told him he was of the 
same mind still when Mr. Moore forbid him to approach the 
Holy Table, for he would not give him the sacrament, to which 
the Lieutenant Governor very prudently told him that he would 
withdraw and give no disturbance to the congregation and 
accordingly he went out of the church his Lady and Daughter 
following him. I need not tell your Lordship that this usage 
w^as resented by the Colonel as an affront and injustice done 
him this action made a very great noise in the Country and 
most gave their opinion very freely both Clergy and Laity. 
The members of the church w^ere divided some condemning Mr. 
Moore others excusing him but the generality of all sorts 
thought it a very rash and unadvised action of Mr. Moore and 
thought that he ought to have gone to the Lieut. Governors 
house and discoursed him and followed the primitive method 



80 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



and discipline. >h ^ j have reason to believe that Mr, 
Moore was prevailed with by some friends to endeavor a recon- 
ciliation and to make some steps towards it. * I 
went immediately to Colonel Ingoldsby and said all that I 
could or was proper for me I found him very positive not to 
hearken to any accommodation unless Mr. Moore would own 
his own mistake before the whole congregation w^here he had 
affronted him. * * I told him I thought he carried 
his resentments too high and that in my opinion Mr. Moore 
ought not to do what he expected and gave him my reason and 
at parting I told his honor that I would advise Mr. Moore not 
to comply with what his honor expected from him 
thus matters * * grew worse and worse every day 
till at last the Lieut. Governor resolved that my Lord should 
either remove Mr. Moore or him out of that government." * 

''the greatest obstacle." 
Col. Morris to the Secretary. Extracts. 

^ 170f 

* ''I believe you will be surprised wdien I mention 
my Lord Cornbury as the greatest obstacle that either has or is 
likely to prevent the growth of the Church in these parts, the 
pernicious effects of his Arbitrary conduct if not prevented by 
the Society will render it (humanly speaking) impossible to pro- 
pagate the Church in this part if not in any part of America and 
make the best designs of the Society ineffectual. 

" I cannot say I am very much surprised to find so large a 
character of him in the account of the proceedings of the Society 
because the best and greatest of men may be imposed upon by 
mercenary or mistaken pens ; but I am sorry they have been so 
much, abused by the accounts they have had of him ; for he is a 
man certainly the reverse of all that's good and a great reproach 
to the Church. In the first place he is a notorious breaker of 
his word, he has subscribed to several churches but can't be 
prevailed upon to pay a farthing, says he did it to encourage 
others and who ever asks for it is sure to feel the effects of 
his displeasure. 



IN BURLINGTOX. 



81 



u 9 Idly jjg -g avowedly and openly unjust in everybody's debt 
that would trust him and in the little Town of l^ew York he 
is said not to owe less than £8000 much of this to Shopkeepers 
Bakers Butchers &c who cannot get a farthing from him though 
under the greatest necessity for ^vant of it and it's' hardly 
credible what a damp to the Trade of that little Town the deten- 
tion of that Sum is. The scandal of his life is such that were he 
in a civilized Heathen Country he would by the public Justice 
be made an example to deter others from his practices, he rarely 
fails of being drest in Womens Cloaths every day and almost 
half his time is spent that way and seldom misses it on a Sacra- 
ment day was in that Garb when his dead Lady was carried out 
of the fort and this not privately but in face of the Sun and in 
sight of the Town ; But I'll not enter into his privacies, his 
public vices are scandalous enough ; were there nothing in it 
but his ill example it must needs be a great hindrance to the 
growth of the church there being nothing more common in the 
mouths of the enemies of our religion than the instancing of my 
Lord Cornbury as a Churchman and an esteemed great patron 
of it, "were there nothing else I say but his Scandalous life which 
makes our Holy profession be had in Contempt and evil spoken 
of it it were enough in so public a person as my Lord to put a 
great stop to the growth of it, but such is so far from being a 
patron of it that he has done more to ruin it than all its enemies 
put together. * "-^ 

In New Jersey the inhabitants have reason to grieve that 
ever such a person as my Lord Cornbury was bornf whose con- 



T In a long remonstrance of the Assembly of ISTevf Jersey, in 1707, against 
Cornbury's tyranny, we find this paragraph : 

Are not her Majesty's loyal subjects liaul'd to goals, and there lie without 
being admitted to bail ? and those that are the conditions of their recogni- 
zances are, that if your Excellency approves not of their being bailed, they 
shall return to their prisons ; several of her Majesty's good subjects forced to 
abscond, and leave their habitations, being threatened with imprisonment, and 
no hopes of receiving the benefit of the law ; when your Excellency's absolute 
Avill is the sole measure of it : One minister of the Church of England, 
dragg'd by a sherifi" from Burlington to Amboy, and there kept in custody, 
without assigning any reason for it, and at last haul'd by force into a boat by 
your Excellency, and transported like a malefactor, into another government, 
and there kept in a garrison a prisoner; and no reason assigned for these vio- 
lent procedures, but your Excellency's pleasure: Another minister of the 
Church of England, laid under a necessity of leaving the province, from the 

F 



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duct as it was imprudently violent to the Dissenters in his 
government of New York so on the contrary it was unaccount- 
ably severe to the Churchmen in New Jersey as if he had studied 
to take measures diametrically opposite to the true interest of 
the Church : a great part of that people had their religion to 
choose and of those that had made a choice many of them were 
so indifferent that it was no very difficult matter to perswade 
them not to be over tenacious of their principles they had as it 
were by chance taken up. The Government being out of the 
hands of the Proprietors and the fame of a Society being 
erected for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts reaching 
here many of those who were indiflPerent and those who had 
their religion to choose were fond of being of the Church 

when behold a sudden change blasted all our growing 
hopes and has at last entirely ruined the church in New Jersey 
and in my humble opinion except the Country engages very 
powerfully in an affair of this consequence the example of the 
proceedings in New Jersey will prove fatal to all the churches 
in English America. To accuse so great a man 

as the Governor of a province may arraign me of want of that 
respect and due regard which is owing to my superiors and 
which in an especial manner ought to be paid but Sir I have a 
greater regard to God than man to truth and the trust the 
Society reposes in every Member of their Body than to my Lord 
Cornbury and tho' some men have been sur- 

prised into a good opinion of his Lordship I am well assured a 
longer accjuaintance and better information will give them 
different sentiments." 



reasonable apprehensions of meeting with the same treatment; no orders of 
men either sacred or civil, secure in their lives, their liberties or estates ; and 
Avhere these procedures will end, God only knows." Smithes History, j^- 333, 

'•Her Majesty graciously listened to the cries of her injur d subjects, and 
divested him of his power, declaring, that she would not countenance her 
nearest relations in oppressing her people. 

" As soon as my Lord was superceded, his creditors threw liim into the 
custody of the sheriff of New York ; and he remained there till the death of his 
father, Avhen succeeding to tlie earldom of Clarendon, he returned to England. 

"We never had a governor so universally detested, nor any who so richly 
deserved the publick abhorrence." History of New York, p. 116. 



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83 



XO XEWS FEOM MESSES. BEOOKE AXD MOOEE. 

Jlr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

Philadelphia, 20th August, 170S. 

" HOXOEABLE SlE : 

^' I have written several letters to you from Boston and Xew 
York by Brothers Brookes and Moore ; but I am afraid thev 
are all lost together ; they have been nine months gone, and we 
saw them not since, nor any news of them. I met them at 
Boston and would persuade them to return, but all in vain ; 
thev had been so drao^ooned that thev had rather be taken into 
France than into the Fort at Xew York. I have carried on t 
ever since at Burlington as well as I could, and I thank God 
with success wherever I am : but I cannot stav long^ at anv 
place, because there are so many that want, certainly the present 
state of that province is worse than the first ; we have lost our 
labour and the Society their cost, their being several Churches 
and no ministers in all East Jersey to supply them, so that thev 
fall away apace to Heathenism, Quakerism and Atheism, purely 
for lack of looking after. Mr. Brooks and Mr. Moore are much 
lamented, being the most pious and industrious Missionaries 
that ever the Honorable Society sent over ; let the adversaries 
say what they will they can prove no evil thing against these 
men. I have heard all sides and parties, what can be said pro 
or con. Mr. Honeyman is outed, Mr. Xicholls scouted into 
Maryland ; he had come home had I not dissuaded him, and I 
could have hindered all the rest of these scandals and disorders 
but that we had no Bishop nor hopes of any ; you would not 
hear of it, therefore I said you must hear worse and worse still, 
if aught can be worse than that the bodies and souls of men are 
ruined and undone, and the Bounty of the Society lost, for lack 
of an overseer of the poor Church in America ; without which 
the Gospel cannot be planted, nor any good work propagated 
in the AVorld. The Bible you sent to Hopewell I was willing 
to take to Burlington till more came over, because ours is worn 
out ; they that come I hope will bring Books with them. I shall 



t This expression, -with reference to officiating, was common for nearly a 
century. It has a yery different meaning now ! 



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write more particularly by the next opportunity. God bless all 
our friends of the Honorable Society, remaining theirs and 
Your humble servant, 

'^Joiix Talbot." 

SOMEBODY MUST ANSWER." 

Mr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

Burlington, 24th August, 1708. 

"Honorable Sir : 

" It is now nine months ago since I parted with Mr. Brooks 
and Mr. Moore at Boston; I sent letters by them, but we are 
much afraid all are miscarried. I was always glad to see them 
but much surprised to meet them both there ; they told me what 
hardship they met with from the Governors of Xew York and. 
Jersey, and how they escaped out of their hands ; I was for 
converting them back again, telling them the dangers of the sea 
and the enemy, but poor Thorowgood said he had rather be taken 
into France than into the Fort at New York ; and if they were 
sunk in the sea, they did not doubt but God Avould receive them, 
since they were persecuted for righteousness, that is for Christ's 
sake and his Gospel, and doing their duty to the best of their 
knowledge. Truly as it was in the beginning so I find it in 
the end ; all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer 
persecution ; but somehody must answer for these things at home 
or abroad. If I could have given them any hopes of a Bishop 
or Suffragan to direct or protect them, I believe they would not 
have gone ; nay, I would have hindered them ; but, alas I I 
had no such hopes myself : I came over to be as good as my 
word rather than on any encouragement to do any good; mean- 
while, I am pure from the Blood of all men ; ye are my "Wit- 
nesses that I pleaded with all my soul to send an overseer of 
this poor Church, but you would, not hear ; therefore is this evil 
come upon us. I don't doubt but by God's mercy their souls 
are not miscarried, they are in peace wheree'r they be I 
don't doubt ; but we Christians in Jersey are most miserable ; 
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if the gate of Heaven be shut, the gates of Hell will soon 
prevail against us. 

" This comes to you in the bosom of Mr. Moore's which he 
gave me at Boston, which wias the last that I had of him ; he is 
much lamented, as indeed they are both ; as for Thorowgood, I 
never knew his fellow of his age, nor ever shall again I fear ; 
nothing can make this country amends for their loss but a good 
Bishop ; but alas ! that is vara avis in terriSy &e. 1 preached 
the Gospel at Marble-Head, where the people offered to sub- 
scribe some hundreds of pounds to build a Church ; but I have 
resolved to build no more Churches till there are more ministers 
to serve the Churches that are built. I preached at Stratford as 
I came along in Connecticut Colony, where was a numerous 
auditory, and Mr. Muirson had forty Communicants there the 
first time ever the Holy Sacrament was rightly administered; 
and upon the Islands, Ehode Island, Long Island, and Staten 
Island, I preached till the AYinter broke up, when I got to 
Amboy and Elizabeth Town, w^here had been nobody since Mr. 
Brook left them, w^ho was an able and diligent Missioner as ever 
came over; I got home about our Lady day, where I was very 
welcome to all Christian people, but alas I I could not stay, I 
am forced to turn Itinerant again, for the care of all the 
Churches from East to West Jersey is upon me ; what is the 
worst is that I can't confirm any nor have not a Deacon to help 
me. My Clerk is put in prison, and w^as taken from the Church 
on the Lord's day upon a civil action of meum and tauin. I 
don't know how soon I may be seized so myself, but I bless God I 
fear no evil so long as I do none; Exurgat deus dissipentur inimic, 
etc. I hear there is another Governor coming for these provinces ; 
people are sorry it is another Lord, for they say there never 
came a good one into these parts. I may say of them as the 
Quakers did of me, ^Theecomest for money,' but I proved them 
Liars, for I have taken no money of them nor yet of others 
since I came. I shall say no more on this point but refer all 
to Mr. Moore's letter, which I hope will have some weight with 
the Honorable Society, because they are the last words of their 
best Missioner when he was in prison for the Gospel of Christ 
and for a good conscience. His humble proposal is that the 



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Honorable Society would use their interest with the Queen that 
we might have men of morals for Governors, if not of Religion ; 
I say the same, and pray God direct them all for the best; so 
I desire your prayers for, 
'•'Sir, 

"Your most humble servant, 

'' John Talbot." 

lord lovelace succeeds corxbuey. 

'' John, Lord Lovelace, baron of Hurley, being appointed to 
succeed lord Cornbury ; he summoned the council to meet him 
at Bergen, December 20, 1708, published his commission, and 
met a new assembly in the spring, at Perth-Amboy, and in- 
formed them : That he was very sensible of great difficulties 
attending the honourable employment in which her majesty hacj 
placed him, and he hoped they would never fail to assist him to 
serve the queen and her people ; that her majesty had shewn, in 
the whole course of her reign (a reign glorious beyond example) 
how much she aim'd at the good and prosperity of her people ; 
having with indefatigable pains united her two kingdoms of 
England and Scotland, and continued the same application to 
unite the minds of all her subjects : that this w^as her great 
care, and ought to be the care of those whom she deputed to 
govern the distant provinces ; that as he could not set before 
him a better pattern, he should endeavour to recommend him- 
self to them, by following as far as he was able, her example; 
that he should always be ready to give his assent to whatever 
laws they found necessary, for promoting religion and virtue ; 
lor the encouragement of trade and industry, and discourage- 
ment of vice and prophaneness, and for any other matter or 
thing relating to the good of the province. 

''The assembly, in their turn, told the governor by address; 
that they esteemed it their great happiness, that her majesty had 
placed a person of so much temper and moderation over them, 
and made no question he would surmount every difficulty with 
honour and safety. 

" That her majesty's reign would make a bright leaf in his- 
tory ; that it was the advantage of the present, and would be 
the admiration of future ages, not more for her success abroad, 
than prudence at home; that tho' their distance had and might 
sometimes be disadvantageous to them, yet they experienced the 
effect of her princely care, in putting an end to the worst admin- 
istration New Jersey ever knew, by sending him, whose govern- 



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ment would always be easy to her majesty's subjects here, and 
satisfactory to himself, whilst he followed so great and good an 
example/'t Smith's History, pjj. 355-357. 

" BOLDLY eOXDEMXIXG VICE." 

Monsr. Ncau to the Secretary. Extract. 

New York, 27^^^ Feby 170^ 

" Most Hoxoeed Sie : 

Now Sir I must answer you to what you ask 

me in relation to Messieurs Moore and Brooke— those Gentle- 
men were assuredly an honor to the Mission and laboured with 
much vigour for the enlargement of the Kingdom of our glorious 
Redeemer, and one , may say without prejudice to the rest that 
they were the Glory of all the Missionaries the Illustrious 
Society has sent over hither. The purity and candour of their 
manners preached as efficaciously as their mouths, insomuch 
that we cannot sufficiently lament the loss of these two good 
servants of God, the occasion of whose disgrace was as follows; 
My|Lord Cornbury has and does still make use of an unfortu- 
nate Custom of dressing himself in womens Clothes and of 
exposing himself in that Garb upon the Ramparts to the view 
of the public ; in that dress he draws a world of spectators about 
him and consequently as many censures especially for exposing 
himself in such a manner all the great Holidays and even in an 
hour or two after going to the Communion, this turns the heart 
of such as fear God against him ; M"" Moore knew all this 
though he was at Burlington, and this made him censure the 
Ministers of those parts, who according to him were guilty of a 
neglect of their duty in taking no notice thereof, and he made 
no scruple to say publicly that his Lordship deserved to be ex- 
communicated whereupon My Lord Cornbury, who knew all 
that was said of him (and who had been informed that M"" 
Moore had suspended from or at least refused to give the Com- 

f Lord Lovelace died May 6th, 1709, less than six months after his arrival, 
and having never been so far in this province as Burlington. He Avas suc- 
ceeded in the summer of 1710, by Brigadier Hunter, Among the twelve 
members of Council, in his instructions, were Lewis Morris, Daniel Coxe, 
Hngh Huddy and Kobert Quarry. Among the members of the new Assem- 
I'lv, those for the town of Burlington, Avere Lsaac DeCou and Eobert Wheeler. 



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munion to the Lieut^ Governor upon the account of some 
Debauch and abominable swearing to which that Gentleman is 
unfortunately addicted) writ to ]\P Moore to come hither, to the 
end that he might send him to Albany but he refused to come 
saying that the Gentlemen of the Society had allowed him to 
reside at Burlington till the arrival of M"" Talbot ; this refusal 
exasperated my Lord, who went to Burlington where the Lieut" 
Governor heartily joined with him to take a public revenge upon 
M- Moore ; My Lord who intended to receive the Sacrament at 
Burlington, was surprised to find nobodv the Sunday following, 
but his own Chaplain to give it him for M'' Moore was gone 
about 12 miles from thence to administer the same to some poor 
people and this action of his finished the design they had to ruin 
him, but because they would not discover the motives of oppress- 
ing this good man they accused him of intermeddling with the 
affairs of the Assembly, because he was seen often in the com- 
pany of Colonel Lewis Morris, but they could never produce 
against him any evidence worthy of Credit. M^ Brooke was 
looked upon to be no less criminal because he said Amen to all 
that M"" Moore did, in fine Sir (for I observe that I grow tedious, 
but it would require a volume to relate every particular of this 
unfortunate story ) My Lord brought hither with him M"" Moore 
and without any form of Trial imprisoned him in his Fort to 
the end that his friends might not see him, however I was there 
every day ; afterwards My Lord went to Albany leaving him 
under a Guard of Soldiers who let him go out, since which time 
we have never seen him more. He was not treated so favorably 
as the presbyterian Ministers, who having given security were 
suffered to go where they would. M^ Brooke was here the day 
that M"" Moore made his escape from the Fort and was diligently 
sought for by the Officers who intended to have imprisoned him 
in the stead of M"" Moore; all that night I had two Centinels 
before my door, but M"" Brooke was not in my house, I caused 
him to be hid by one of my friends, since which time I have not 
seen him neither for which I am very sorry, I protest I had no 
share in the escape of M"" Moore, though I was accused of it as 
M"" Vesey. Orders were given to stop M"" Brooke at Amboy in 
case he were found there, of which he having had notice was of 



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the opinion (and so were his friends there too) that it were better 
to take a Journey to London than to expose himself to the fury 
of a powerful enemy. This in substance was the Cause of the 
disgrace and ruin of those two Illustrious servants of God, whose 
Crime was for opposing and condemning boldly vice and im- 
morality but the friends of Debauchery and corruption of man- 
ners affirm that these ministers exceeded their power, and that 
it did belong only to the Diocesan to suspend or exclude from 
the Communion pei^ns in authority ; so that, since we have no 
Bishop any body may metamorphize themselves into Devils with- 
out fear of punishment. You see Sir what a Condition we are re- 
duced to. Judge therefore Sir whether we can labour effectually 
in the reformation of manners, whilst those who Govern us are 
our chiefest opposers ; I make no doubt that you will have 
heard that my Lord Cornbury is under arrest for debts he has 
contracted here, he is selling his household goods but there are 
several Warrants against him ; I have been to see him once since 
he was arrested, but I did not find him like M"" Moore ; I am 
assured that he continues to dress himself in Women's Cloths^ 
but now 'tis after the Dutch manner. I beg you to excuse this 
long Letter and take leave to salute you with a profound 
respect as being 

" Most Honored Sir, 

Your most humble and most 
" obedient Servant 

Elias Neau." t 

NOT THE queen's FAULT. 

Col. Morris to the Secretary. Extract. 

^^New York, May 30th, 1709. 
^ ^ a My Lord Cornbury Colonel Nicholson Colonel 
Quary and Colonel lugoldsby who now succeeds in the govern- 
ment as Lieut. Governor^ have all hopes to be governors either 

t Mr. IS'eau was the Society's Catecliist in ISTew York. Honest Elias 
Neau," Col. Morris calls him. 

jlTpon the death of Lord Lovelace, the goyernment devolved npon Lieut. 
Gov. Ingoldsby, who was almost as odious, to the people of New Jersey, as 
Lord Cornbury had been. Field's Provincial Courts of Xew Jersey, p. 78. 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



of York or Jerseys ; but pray Sir use your best endeavors that 
we fail not a prey to the Monsters of such arbitrary principles 
and so ungovernable tempers. Ingoldsby was the cause of the 
loss of Moore & Brooke triumphs in it quarrels with the whole 
order says they are all a pack of rascals and knaves never a 
Barrel of them the better herring and affronts as many of them 
as comes in his way and I hope the clergy will convince him 
that they are not to be the scorn of every reptile if they do not 
his example will be transcribed, and the Clergy become the Con- 
tempt of America. Tis not the best return for 
the charge and pains I was at in surrendering the government 
of the Jerseys to the Queen but it is not her fault she has suffered 
more than I by committing the powers of government to persons 
■unable to govern themselves and which I hope will not always 
^beso." * =^ 

THE BEST HOUSE IX AMEEICA FOR A BISHOP. 

3Ir. Talbot to the Secretary. 

"Burlington, 30th June, 1709. 

"Sir: 

" I received your long letter and find Certamen est de lana 
Caprina. For your moderation, which is nothing in the world 
but a name which St. Paul never used in all his Epistles nor 
anything like it, but one where ^tis wrong translated ; it should 
be let your gentleness be known to all men, which I am for as 
much as anybody, towards man and Beast too ; but if you mean 
moderation in Religion, as one said here, ' I don't care whether I 
go to Heaven or Hell.' Good sir pardon your servant in this 
thing, but let us not differ about words, but follow the things 
that are for peace, and things whereby we may plant the Gospel 
and edify the Church of God. I am very glad to find by the 
President's letter, that the members of the Honourable Society 
are convinced, that a head is necessary to the body, but if he 
don't make haste he will come too late, for here is nothing 
established, but such a moderation to all that is good, and such 
a toleration of all that is evil, yea of the most damnable Heresies, 
which by the way is a damnable Toleration, and worse than the 
worst persecution that ever was in the world ; for that only 



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destroyed men^s bodies, but these destroy body and soul in Hel] 
for ever, which is damnable with a vengeance and will make the 
last State of poor America worse than the first, if not timely 
prevented. Is it not strange, that so many islands should be 
inhabited with Protestants, so many provinces planted by them 
— so many hundred thousand souls born and bred up here in 
America; but of all the Kings, Princes and Governours, all the 
Bishops and Archbishops which have been since the Reforma- 
tion, they never sent out anybody here to propagate the Gospel ? 
I say to propagate it by imparting some spiritual gift by ordi- 
nation or confirmation. I thought the Society had set up to 
supply these wants, and to take olf this horrible scandal from 
the Protestant Churches, but truly they would not hear of it till 
they had lost their best missionaries (may lose all the rest for 
ought I know before it be legally obtained.) What ! is there a 
law against the Gospel? Let it be taken out of the way as 
Popish and Antichristian ; we can't Baptize anybody hardly 
now for want of God fathers and God mothers, for who will be 
bound where they are not like to be discharged ? I can't get 
children here to be catechised, for they are ashamed of anything 
that is good, for want of school masters to teach them better. 
There is one Mr. Humphreys come ever with my Lord Love- 
lace, I suppose not unknown to you by Mr. Congreve ; he is a 
pretty sober young man and graduate of Dublin college ; I have 
got him £"20 subscribed, but that is not enough for one that has 
fi family. If the Society please to add so much to it as they 
think fit, it will be as good a work as they can do. Mr. Evans 
liked him so well that he would have had him for a free school 
^t Philadelphia, but that wanderer Mr. Ross, has got in there I 
believe by this time, for they would not be quiet till they got 
poor Mr. Club to resign. I pity Mr. Jenkin's case, and I hope 
the society will restore him, for he is young enough to move 
pity and to amend ; or if he cannot live there, let him be Itine- 
rant in this province and I will help him wdiat I can ; the 
churches in east Jersey are falling to the ground for lack of 
looking after, I can't go there above once or twice a year to 
administer the Holy Sacrament that they be not quite starved. 
It had been better not to have put these poor people to the 



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charge of buildiog churches, than have nobodj to supply them, 
I can't get so much as a Reader here for any of them, and it 
were to save their souls. You that live at home in ease and 
plenty, little do you know what they and we do bear and suffer 
here, and how many thousand souls are legally lost whilst they 
at home are legally supplying them. "Who will answer it to 
Jesus Christ who will require an account of us all, and that very 
speedily too, meanwhile He has charged all to take care of his 
flock not by constraint but willingly, not for filthy Lucre but of a 
ready mind ; then they who don't care whether they go to Heaven 
or Hell will have no reward for that moderation. I find in your 
books that one Mr. Sergt. Hooke is willing to give the tenth of 
his Land to the Church at Hopewell ] pray let him send me a 
power and I will take care of it, and get him a purchaser for 
the rest. I have got possession of the best house in America 
for a Bishop's seat ; the Archbishop told me he would con- 
tribute towards it and so I hope will others ; pray let me know 
your mind in this matter, as soon as may be, for if they slip 
this opportunity, there is not such another to be had. Our 
church here does flourish, God be praised, and the town too i& 
much more populous than it was ; I hope we shall soon be, out 
of Debt, meanwhile I take nothing of them, there is my mode- 
ration ; besides I bless God, I have kept the peace where no- 
body else did or could, and that is no sign of immoderation ; 
now I have shown you my moderationt by my works, pray 
show me yours that I may learn more how to approve myself 
as I ought. 

" Yours etc 

" JoHx Talbot." 
'•'Pray for God's sake send us some books of all sorts,, 
especially Common Prayer books. 

f J. Bass, in a letter to the Secretary written about this time, says: I 
must not omit here to assure you, that that good man, the Reverend Mr. Tal- 
bot, deserves as mucli the care and regards of the Society as any minister 
amongst us, and hath been in my opinion as universally useful. Notwithstand- 
ing so'rne things that you in your Letter desire he might be more moderate 
in, his conversation "is unblameable, and his care and concern more for the 
interest of the Church and the glory of God than for any thing that can 
concern himself." 



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A CLOUD OF MELANCHOLY THOUGHTS." 

Mr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

"Burlington, 27th September, 1709. 

" Though I have sent you several letters of late, yet I can't 
omit so good an opportunity as this by Mr. Hamilton of giving 
my duty and service to the Honorable Society ; my comfort is I 
have always told them the truth both at home and abroad, 
though I was not believed till it was too late. When I reflect 
on the progress of the Gospel (I will not say the Church for we 
never had it here, nor never shall till there comes over a propa- 
gator to plant and to build it up) a cloud of melancholy thoughts 
throngs upon me; for when the Shepherds are smitten the sheep 
of the flock must need be scattered abroad. Mr. Moore, Mr. 
Brooks, Mr. Muirson, Mr. Rudman, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Urqu- 
hart, all worthy men, dead in less than two years, and almost 
all the rest run away, as Black, Crawford, Nichols ; Ross is a 
wandering star, we do not know where he will fix; meanwhile 
he does not well to supplant and undermine, let him be confined 
to some place where there is need, and not stay altogether in the 
town to do more hurt than good ; there's Mr. Evans, Mr. Ross, 
and Mr. Club all at Philadelphia, and none else in that 
Province, where the Society have sent most ; at Chester there's 
none, at New Castle none, at Appoquimony none, at Dover 
hundred none, at the whorekills none, and the people in all 
these places so abated of their zeal, that I'm sure it had been 
much better to have sent none at all, than none to supply the 
death and absence of these men. Here is not one come to sup- 
ply the loss of these 10 missionaries, and if there does come any 
what will they do but find great discouragements, and the last 
state of their several places worse than the first ; wherefore my 
advice is, with humble submission to my superiors, to keep 
their money and give us leave to come home, and send no more 
till they think fit to send a propagator of the Gospel ; for other- 
wise their planting the Gospel is like the Indians planting gun- 
powder, which can never take root, but is blown away by every 
wind. Poor brother Jenkins was baited to death with musqui- 



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toes^ and blood thirsty Gal-Knippers, which would not let him 
rest night nor day, ^till he got a fever at Appoquimony, came to 
Philadelphia, and died immediately of a Calenture ; my brother 
Evans and I buried him as well as we could, it cost us above 
£20 for, poor man I he had nothing, being out of Quantum with 
the Society, and his bills protested. If you please to call to 
mind, I told the Society when I was there, that those places 
must be served by Itinerants, and that it is hardly possible for 
anvbodv to abide there, that is not born there, ^till he is mus- 
Cjuito proof; those little things are a great plague in some parts, 
and when a man is persecuted in one place he should have leave 
to go to another, or else, he has very hard measure, especially 
in these parts where our life is a kind of Penance both winter 
and summer, and nobody can tell, which is the worst, the 
extreme heat or cold. I hear Mr. Yaughan is arrived at Bos- 
ton, but is not yet come into this province, he will have enough 
to do to supply Mr. Brook's charge at Elizabeth Town, Amboy, 
Piscataway, who have had none since he left them ; but I have 
done for them, may be once in a quarter or so ; somebody occa- 
sionally passing by that way, but poor Hopewell has built a 
Church and have had no minister yet ; and he had need be a 
good one that comes after Mr. Moore ; there be many more in 
England but none so good as to come over and help us, that I 
can see or hear of. As for the account of what Indians we have 
converted, truly I never saw nor knew any that were Christians 
indeed ; but I know there are hundreds, yea thousands of our 
white folks, that are turned Infidels for want of looking after. 
Let them that have the watch look oat and see what they will 
answer ; for he that is higher than the highest regards. I have 
received nothing from the people in this province, nor will not 
till they be out of debt for building the church. I leave honest 
Mr. Hamilton to give you a farther account of our affairs, and 
how we do ; he has been one of our benefactors and given us 
£10. I hope when he returns, the Society will be so kind as to 
send us some Common Prayer books which we very much want 
here and at Hopewell, Maidenhead, and everywhere. I pray 
God direct and prosper the designs of the sacred Society, that 



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Religion and learning, piety and virtne, may be established 
among ns for all generations : so I rest sir, 

^^Your's &G. JoHX Talbot. 

" I hope you will put the Society in mind of what we have 
often desired, a school master, for there is none in Town nor in 
all the province that is good ; and without, we can't instruct the 
children as they ought to be in the Catechism, for they will not 
be brought to say it in the Church till they have been taught 
at school." 

THE WILLS PEOVED. 

Xearly a year had elapsed since Messrs. Moore and; Brooke 
set sail for England, and no tidings of the ship, or of any one 
on board, had been received. 

"With this in mind, the followins^ have a sad and. touchino- 
interest. 

" Burlington the 18^^ Octo. 1709. 
" Then appeared before me, Jeremiah Bass Esq, commis- 
sioned and appointed by the honorable Coll Eichard Ingoldsby 
Lt Governor cfc Com'^ in Chief of the Province of Xew Jersey, 
John Talbott, Clerke, one of the AVitnesses to the within written 
Will and made oath on the holv Evano;elists of Almighty God 
that he was present and saw the Testator Thorowgood Moore 
signe scale & publish the within writing to be his last Will and 
Testament and that at the time of the signeing thereof he was of 
sound and disposing memory to the best of his knowledge & 
beliefe and that at the same time he saw Samuell Miles Thomas 
Barclay and John Brooke sign the same as Witnesses thereto in 
presence of the testator. 

Jurat. Coram Me 

" J. Bass.'' 

" Burlington the 18^^ Octo^ 1709. 
" Then appeared before me Jeremiah Bass Esq^ Commission- 
ated and appointed by the honorable Coll Richard Ingoldsby 
Lieut Gover'' & Commander in Chief of the Province of Xew 
Jersey &c, John Talbot, Clerke, and made oath on the holy 
Evangelists of Almighty God that he was present and saw the 
within named John Brooke signe scale publish and declare the- 
within written Instrument to be his last Will and Testament 
and that at the time of the signeing; thereof he was of sound &: 



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disposing mind and Memory to the best of his knowledge and 
beliefe and that at the same time he saw Robert Owen John 
Brocass and Hugh Venables signe the same as witnesses thereto 
in presence of the testator. 

" Jurat. Coram me 

"J. Bass." 

THE WILL OF THOMAS LECITER. 

" Ix THE NAME OF GoD, Amex. I, Thomas Leciter, of the 
Towne of Piscattaway, in the Easterne Division of this her 
Majestys Province of Xew Jersey, being \Yell in health, and of 
Sound understanding and Judgement, praised be God for the 
Same, I Sett considering the uncertainety of humane life and the 
Certainety of Rendring up my Soule to God that Gave it at 
Such time as it Shall please him to Require it that I may Settle 
that estate that it hath pleased God to give me far above my 
desert I make and ordaine this my last will and Testament in 
Manner and forme following. First I give my Soule to 
Almighty God who gave it to me firmely believeing that I shall 
Attaine to life Eternall in heaven above through the merits and 
mediation of my Blessed Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and my 
body to be decently interred and as to Such worldly Good as I 
am possest of after my Just debts are paid and Satisfied I Give 
bequeath and dispose of the Same in manner following: I Give 
v.t bequeath unto the Church of St. Anne in Burlington in her 
Majestys Province of Xew Jersey that Is to Say the ministry of 
the Said Church, two hundred and Six ackers of Land lyeing 
and being upon Stoney Brooke in the Easterne division of this 
Province wdiich I bought of Richard Stockton for the use of the 
Said Church and Xoe other: I also Will and bequeath all the 
Rest of my Estate nov\" in the possession of Joseph Worth to the 
onely use benefitt and behough of him the said Joseph Worth 
his heirs or Executors. I doe nominate and Appoint Mr. 
Robert Wheeler, of Burlington Merchant my Sole and onelv 
Executor of this my Last Will and Testament Revoakeincr 
hereby and disanulling all and all manner of other, or former 
Will or Wills Testament or Testaments and doe desire and 
Request that this onely may be deemed and Esteemed, and 



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taken as my true and oiiely Last Will and Testament. In wit- 
ness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and affixed my 
Seale this tenth Day of July in the eighth year of the Eeigne 
of our Sovereigne Lady Anne over England &c Queen Annoq 
Dom 1709." 

" Thomas Leciter. [ l. s.] " 
[Proved before Jeremiah Bass, Nov. 14th, 1709.] 

"letters pattent" for ST. Mary's church. 

" Axne, by the Grace of God of Great Brittain France and 
Ireland Queen Defender of the faith &c To all Christian 
People to whome these presents shall come Greeting. Wee 
being very well Assured that nothing can tend more to the pros- 
perity and Welfare of any people, than the Establishment of the 
true Religion, and promoting of Piety and Virtue, which wee 
have always thought it our Duty as much as in us lies to 
incourage in all those places that are under our Care and Gov- 
ernment, That God may be Glorified, and the Inhabitants Duly 
Instructed in the principles of the Christian Religion ; and 
knowing that it will be highly Condusive to the Attaineing of 
those Ends, that all Possible Encouragement be given for the 
Erecting and Building of convenient places for the preaching of 
the word of God, and Administring of the holy Sacraments, ac- 
cording to the Doctrine and Liturgy of the Church of England ; 
and also that a sufficient maintenance be Provided for an Otho- 
dox Clergyman to live and Reside amongst them. And whereas 
the Reverend Mr. John Talbot, minister of the Church of St. 
Mary in our Towne of Burlington, Daniel Coxe and Hugh 
Huddy, Esqrs,, two of our Councill for the sd Province, 
Jeremiah Bass, Esq our Secretary, Alexander Griffith, Esq our 
Attorney Generall of our Province of New Jersey with Divers 
others have by their petition to our Trusty and Well-beloved 
Coll Richard Ingoldesby, our Lieutenant Gov and Commander- 
in-Chief of our sd Province Desired that they might have our 
Royall Grant and Charter, Enabling them to Act as a Body 
Corporate by the Name of the Minister, Church wardens and 
Vestrymen of the Church of St. Mary in Burlington and that 
they might have power to Receive Gifts, to Purchase Lands and 
Houses, to make Leases, and to make such Rules and Orders 
for the Disposall of their Church Affairs as shall be Agreeable 
to the Laws and Constitutions of our Kingdome of Great 
Brittain Kxow yee therefore that we have for the Considera- 
tions Aforesd of our Special Grace Certain Knowledge and 

G 



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Mere Motion Willed Ordained Constituted and Appointed and 
by these presents for us our heirs and successors, Doe Will 
Ordain Constitute Appoint and Grant That the Reverend Mr. 
John Talbot, master of Arts and the Minister of our Towne of 
Burlington for the time being Robert Wheeler and George 
Willis Church Wardens of our sd Church and the two Church 
Wardens for the time being Coll: Daniel Coxe Lieut. Coll: 
Hugh Huddy two of our Councill for our said Province Jere- 
miah Bass Esq our Secretary of our sd Province, Alexander 
Griffeth, Esq., our Attorney General 1 Thomas Re veil Daniel 
Leeds William Bustill William Budd Nathaniel Westland John 
Roberts Abraham Hewlings, and their Successors to be Elected 
in Manner as is hereafter Directed be, and forever hereafter 
shall be one body Politick and Corporate in Deed and in Name 
by the Name of the Minister, Church Wardens and Vestrymen 
of the Church of Saint Mary in Burlington and them and their 
successors by the same Name W^e doe by these presents for u-^ 
Our heirs and successors Really and fully make Ordain Consti- 
tute and Declare one Body Politick Corporate in Deed and in 
Name to have Community and succession perpetuall and that 
they and their Successors by that Name shall and may forever 
hereafter be persons Able and Capable in the Law to purchase, 
have, take, receive and Enjoy to them and their Successors, Mes- 
suages Lands Tenements Rents Liberties Priviledges, Jurisdic- 
tions, Franchises and Other Heriditaments Whatsoever of 
Whatsoever Nature, kind and Quality they be, in fee and per- 
petuity not Exceeding the yearly Value of three hundred 
Pounds Sterlling per Annum and also Estates for Lives or 
Years, and all Goods Chattels and things Whatsoever of What 
Name Nature Quality or Vallue soever they be, for the better 
Support and Maintainance of an Orthodox Minister in the sd 
Church and the promotion of Piety and Religion, and likewise 
the Maintaining and keeping in good Repaire the Fabrick of 
the sd Church and providing Decent Ornaments for the Same 
As Also full Power to Give Grant Bargain Sell and Dispose of 
any of the sd Lands either for Terme of years or in Fee : Pro- 
vided always that Such and so many Lands of the full Vallue 
of such as are sold shall be Bona Fide purchased and Settled 
for the Uses Aforesd And by the name aforesaid they shall and 
may be Able to Plead and be Impleaded Answer and be An- 
swered and to Defend and be Defended in All Courts and Places 
Whatsoever and before whatsoever Judges, Justices or Other 
Officers or Other Courts Whatsoever of us, our heirs and Suc- 
cessors in all and Singular Actions Plaints Pleas Matters and 
Demands of What kind Nature or Quality soever they be and to 



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Act and Doe all other matters and things in as Ample mtmner 
and form as any Other our Leidge subjects in our Realm of 
Great Brittain being Persons Able and Capable in the Law 
within our Realm of Great Brittain can or may have, purchase 
Receive, Possess take Enjoy sett Lett Demize Plead and be Im- 
pleaded Answer and be Answered unto Defend and be Defended 
Doe permitt and Execute And that the sd Corporation forever 
hereafter shall and may have A Common Scale for the Causes 
and Businesses of them and their Successors and may Change 
and Alter the Same at their will and Pleasure And : for the 
better Execution of the purposes Aforesd, We doe Give and 
Grant to the sd John Talbot Robert AVheeler George AVillis 
Coll: Daniel Coxe Lieut. Coll: Hugh Huddy, Jeremiah Bass 
Alexander Griffeth, Thomas Revell Daniel Leeds William 
Bustill William Budd Xathaniel Westland John Roberts and 
Abraham Hewlings and their successors forever that on Monday 
in Easter Week Yearly at Some Convenient place to be by them 
Appointed of which Xotice shall be Given by the Minister on 
Easter Day between the hours of Eight and Twelve in the Morn- 
ing to Elect and Chuse by Majority of Voices, two Church 
Wardens & so many Vestrymen as shall be wanting to Com- 
pleat the Xumber of twelve Vestrymen besides the two Church 
Vrardens out of the most Substantial Communicants of and in 
the said Church, And we doe further will, and by these presents 
for us, our heirs and successors. Ordain and Grant unto the sd 
Minister, Church wardens and Vestrymen, and their Successors 
that they and their Successors or the Major part of them shall' 
have power to meet and Assemble at such times and places, and 
soe Often as they shall think Convenient Publick Xotice being 
Given thereof in the Church the preceding Sunday and shall 
and may Consult Determine Constitute Ordaine and make any 
Constitutions Laws Ordinances and Statutes whatsoever pro- 
vided they be not Contrary to our Laws of our Kingdome of 
Great Brittain and the present Constitutions of our sd Church 
of England as also to Execute Leases for three Lives or Twenty- 
one Years And Also Bargains Sales or Grants in fee upon the 
proviso Aforesd Which to them or the Major part of them there 
present shall Seem reasonable Profittable or Requisite for Touch- 
ing or Concerning the Good Estate Rule Order and Govern- 
ment of the sd Corporation and for the more Efiectuall promoteing 
the Aforesd Designs Axd Whereas it may soe happen that some 
person or persons that are now, or may hereafter be Chosen to 
be Church Wardens or of our Vestry of our sd Church may 
Either Change the place of their Aboad, and Reside out of our 
County of Burlington or may become Scandalous in his Life & 



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Conversation, that then and in Such Cases it Shall and may be 
Lawfull for the said Minister, Church Wardens and Vestrymen 
provided there be not less than the Xumber of Eight that doe 
Agree to the Same to Suspend or Remove the sd Person or per- 
sons from being Voteing or Acting as Church Warden or 
Vestryman, and forthwith to proceed to a Xew Election of Some 
Other fitt person in his Roome as they shall see meet and Con- 
venient AxD Lastly our Pleasure is that these our Letters 
Pattents, or the Involment thereof shall be Good Firm Vailed 
and Effectuall in the Law According to our Royall Intentions 
herein before Declared Ix Witness whereof : we have caused 
these our Letters to be made Pattents and Our Seale of our 
Province of New Jersey to be hereunto Affixed. 

Witness our Trusty and Well beloved Richard Ingoldesby , 
Esc[ our Lieut. Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over 
our Provinces of Xew Jersey, Xew York and all the Territories 
and Tracts of Land Depending thereon in America and Vice 
Admiral of the Same, Arc. At Burlingtori. in Our Said Prov- 
ince of Xew Jersey, the Twenty fifth day of January, in the 
Eighth Yeare of our Reign Annoq Dom : 1709. 

'M. Bass, &cr£/ari/." 

BrRLINGrTOX, THE EIEST AMEEICAX SEE. 

The Report of the S= P. G.,for 1710, says: ''It having been 
frecjuently represented to the Society, that there is a very great 
want of a Bishop to govern those missionaries whom the Society 
has, or shall, from time to time, send over to Xew England, 
Xew A^ork, Pennsylvania, and other parts of the continent of 
Xorth America, as well as the rest of the clergy in those and the 
adjacent colonies; and to ordain others, and to confirm the 
children of the clergy and the laity : this matter has been most 
seriously considered of, and is yet depending -before the Society : 
and in the meautimej;^and till they can bring it to bear, they are 
looking out for the best and most commodious place, as near the 
centre as possible of the above-mentioned colonies, to fix the See 
for the said Bishop ; and having been informed, that at Bue- 
LIXGTOX in Xew Jersey there is a spacious and very convenient 
house, with some land belonging to it, (fit for the purpose, ) to 
be disposed of upon good terms, they have empowered the hon- 
ourable Colonel Hunter, her majesty's governor of Xew York 
and the Jerseys, [there having been originally two provinces, 



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East and \Yest Jersey, the whole when united, was often called 
^the Jerseys/] to treat with the 'owner for the purchase thereof/* 

"honest and ixdefatigable." 

t 

Gov. Hunter to the Secretary. Extract. 

"Xew York 7th May 1711. 
>K ^ "We are happy iu these provinces in a good set 
ul Missionaries, who generally labor hard in their Functions 
and are men of good lives and ability. Mr. Talbot I have 
found a perfect honest man, and an indefatigable Laborer : If 
he had less warmth he might have more success but that's the 
effect of constitution." * 

"XOT MUCH PROGRESS.'^ 

Mr. Bass to Secretary. Extract. 

"Burlington 17th Dec^ 1711. 

"Sir: 

"The state of the Church here you will have a just and full 
account of from the Bearer I wish he were able to give you a 
good account of the purchase of the house at the point. I think 
there is not much more progress made in it than was when the 
Honble Coll Xicholson left these parts but hope it will be con- 
cluded in the Spring when his Excellency comes to Burlington. 
I should be very glad to be serviceable either to the Church or 
the Society in this or any other affair that lies in my power. I 
beg the favor of your good offices to the bearer and that you 
will use w^hat interest you have with that Honble Society for 
the promoting the interest of the best of Churches in these parts 
by the accelerating the coming of a Bishop amongst us : the 
Clergy now are more numerous than they were some years past 
and tis to be feared differences may arise which can no ways be 
terminated but by his authority. But having wrote largely on 
this and what other things relating to the interest of the Church 
in these parts I shall only beg the honor of your continued cor- 
respondence and that you will believe me to be 
" Sir 

" your affectionate friend 

"and very humble servant 
" J. Bass.'' 



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ROYAL REPEAL OF THE NEW FORM OF PROTESTATION. 

— ^ — ^ Att the Court at St. James's ve 

19th of December, 1711.' 
Present 

The Queen's most Excellt. Maj'tj. 



Locus 
Sigilli. 



Lord Keeper 
Lord Treasurer 
Lord President 
Lord Privy Seal 
Lord Chamberlain 
Duke of Beaufort 
Duke of Hamilton 
Duke of Kent 
Lord Steward 
Earle of Northampton 
Earle of Winchelsea 
Earle of Thanet 
Earle of Clarendon 
Earle of Rochester 
Earle of Abbingdon 
Earle of Cholmondley 
Earle of Mar 



Earle of Orkney 

Earle of Islay 

Earle of Dartmouth 

Earle of Ferrers 

Earle of Orrery 

Lord North & Grey 

Lord Lexington 

Lord Barkley 

Lord Guernsey 

Mr. Speaker 

Mr. Pagett 

Mr. Comptroller 

Mr. Secry St. John 

Mr. Chancel I'r of ye Exchequer 

Lord Chief Justice Trevor 

Sr. Charles Hedges 

Lieut. Gen'll Erie 



The Lords Comm'rs for Trade and Plantations having this 
Day Represented to ye Board, That in Obedience to her Majes- 
ties Order in Council, they have Considered of ye Address of 
ye Minister, Church Wardens and Vestry of ye Parish Church 
of St. Mary's in Birdlington in her Majesties Province of New 
Jersey, Complaining of an Act lately passed in Pensilvania 
Constituting a New form of Protestation, repugnant to ye Affir- 
mation, Enjoined by Act of Parliament here, Entituled, an Act 
directing an Affirmation to such who for Conscience Sake can- 
not take an Oath, which the Comisioners find materially to differ 
from ye Affirmation Enioined ye Quakers by Act' of Parliament 
here And therefore humbly offerr it as their Opinion that the sd 
Law be Disallowed, her Majesty taking the same into Consider- 
acon is pleased with ye advice of her Privy Council pursuant to 
ye Powers reserved to her Majesty by ye Letters Patents under 
ye Great Seal of England to William Penn, Esq., Proprietor of 
ye sd Province of Pensilvania, to declare her Disallowance & 
Disapprobation of ye sd Law, And According to her Majesties 
Pleasure, the same is hereby repealed, and Declared Void & 
of none Effect. 

Christo: Musgraye. 



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THE LATE MR. MOOEE's AFFAIRS. 

Col. Morris to John Chamherlayne, Esq. 

Feb. 20, 1711. 

AYOETHY Slli ; 

"My Lord of London laid his commands on me to transmit! 
him an account of the affairs of ]\L Moore, which I have done, 
and inclosed me duplicates of what Affidavits I sent to his 
Lordship, and of M"^ Sharp's narrative, who kept a Diary while 
in N. York. I wrote also to the several ministers in New 
York to tell me what they knew of it to take away all Pretence 
of acting clandestinely, and to give those of them, who were my 
Lord Cornburys friends an opportunity of saying what they 
could in his justification, for you must not wonder that M'' 
Vesey begins to set up to head a party of those ; I have got no 
answer from any body but honest Elias Neau, who tells me he 
has give you what account he could of that matter, which is in- 
closed with my letter. You may see by those affidavits there 
could be no such thing as a Parole given, for my Lord was so 
far from admitting any thing like it that he would not even 
permitt him to go to Church, tho' security was offered for his 
return, and most certainly the officer in my Lords absence, 
durst not besides how can a man be said to be at liberty on his 
Parole w^hen orders are given from officer to officer, to keep hioi 
■a Prisoner, and a centinel charged with him ; if he was on his 
Parole, why was the centinel put in irons, and so severely pun- 
ished for letting him make his escape, this ought not to have 
been done if he was on his Parole. I am sure I never heard of 
any such thing till I saw a Paragraph of your letter to M' 
Sharp; His Lordship or his friends in England have started 
that which nobody here ever dream't, could have been possible 
to offer in a case so well known but the Affidavits will sett that 
matter in its true light. This pretence that M"" Moore deny'd 
the Queens Supremacy is as weak as its untrue, for if he really 
had my Lord had then scope enough to gratify a resentment, 
which his conduct to M"" Moore shew'd he did not want. Bur- 
lington was not without a strong Goal which would have been 
a more severe confinement than the Fort of New York, and a 



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Tryal upon the Spot where evidences (if any) were to be had, 
was much more natural as well as justifiable, than sending him 
to England 3000 miles off, where no such thing could be pro^ved 
against him. All that M"" Moore wanted was to go to England? 
to lay his complaints at the feet of his superiours, and would 
he or any of his friends in the least have believed my Lord 
would have sent him there, he never would have undertaken so 
hazardous expensive and fatigueing a journey to New England 
in order to procure a passage home, no, his fears suggested other 
things and whether groundless or not I shall not determine, I 
have heard it offered that the reason of my Lords intentions in 
sending M"" Moore home, was because he was cautious in meddling 
in Ecclesiastical affairs, why then did he confirm that ridiculous 
suspitiou of M^ Moore by Coll Ingoldsby that was properly an 
ecclesiastical affair and meddling with a witness but of this 
enough/^ Colonial History of N. York, Vol. F; p^^. 318-9. 

'^THE COXGREGATIOIn ALL IN A FLAME." 

Gov. Hunter to the Secretary. Extracts. 

"New York Feby 25th ITJi 

* ^ "This serves for Prologue to a story which I 
believe will no less surprize you than it startled me. 

" Col. Heathcote told me he was privately informed that there 
had been a representation against me carried about to some of 
the Clergy for Subscription ; I could not believe it being con- 
scious to myself of nothing that I had done, left undone, or 
intended, with relation to the Churchs Interest, that the most 
consumate malice could ground a representation upon. That 
worthy gentleman was of the same opinion but positive that 
there was such a representation, for which reason he in con- 
junction with Coll Morris as members of the society thought fit 
to write a letter to Mr. Vesey & Mr. Henderson in whose hands- 
they understood this paper to be & who were the principal con- 
trivers and Promoters of it. * there came over hither 
one Mr. Henderson a missionary with a new Light * * 
he is upon his departure to England charged with the clandes- 
tine representation. This young Gentleman came from England 



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105 



not long agoe for Dover Hundred of Pensilvania whether he 
disliked the people or the people him I cannot tell but he 
remayned but a very short time among them and returning to 
Burlington in the Jerseys Mr. Talbot got him to supply his 
place during his absence, being come himself to New York to 
pursue a resolution he had taken of going for England ; CoL 
Quary acquainted me that in his passage through Burlington 
he found that poor congregation all in a flame, Mr. Henderson 
it seems had thought fit in performing Divine Service to leave 
out that prayer in the Litany for Victory over her Maj'^^ Enne- 
mies, and the prayer appointed to be said in time of War ; The 
chiefe of that Congregation had took exceptions at this, but he 
gave them no other reasons for so doing but that Mr. Talbot had 
done so, they replyd that having been long acquainted with 
Mr. Talbots exemplary life they were willing to bear with his 
scruples, but he could pretend none having formerly never 
omitted them & further that this would look as if that congrega- 
tion could not bear any such prayers which was a thing far from 
thfeir hearts, and entreated him to pray as he was appointed by 
his superiors, or they would not willingly assist at them for the 
future. Mr. Quary desired me to speak to Mr. Talbot upon 
this head ; I begg'd of him first to do so, and then if there was 
any necessity I wou'd, he did so, & the result was that Mr. 
Talbot w^ent back to Burlington and Mr. Henderson came hither 
to go for England in his place, having in charge the secret 
Bep"^ mentioned • ^ * I have now bargained with 
Mr. Tatham for that House and Land at Burlington & as you 
will observe by the enclosed Deed marked (C) have reserved the 
space to four months for the Societie's Assent or dissent, which 
I beg I may have speedily that we may not be loaded with 
Interest. The house is much out of repair and will be in a 
Short time uninhabitable, if there be not directions given for 
repairs.^' * * 



MR. TALBOT BUYS A HOUSE. 

On the 16*^ of March, 1711, Hugh Huddy, " for the sume of 
One Hundred & fforty pounds of currant silver money att the 



106 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



rate of nine shillings & two pence pr ounce/^ conveyed to " John 
Talbot, Clerk/' a house, and lot containing 2J acres of land 
fronting on the East side of Second [afterwards named Talbot] 
street, between the land of John and Jonathan Fox and the land 
of Walter Humphrey, 21 perches and 10 feet. Also, 23 perches 
of land next adjoining. M"" Huddy delivered the property into 
the possession of M"" Talbot in the presence of Robert Wheeler, 
Thomas Gilberthorp and George Willis, and received £140, "in 
full sattisfaction therefor.'' 

The Deed was acknowledged before Daniel Coxe, Oct. 27*'', 
1711, and "entered in the publique Records of the Province," 
in " Lib A. A. A. folio 376, 377, by J. Bass, Secretary." 
Original Deed. 

THE S. p. G. BUY THE TATHAM PEOPEETY. 

On the 29*'^ of October, 1712,— "in the Eleventh year of 
the Reign of our Sovereign Lady Anne, by the Grace of God 
Queen of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the 
Faith " — " his Excellency Robert Hunter Esq, Captain Gen- 
eral and Governor in Chief of the Provinces of New York 
and New Jersey and the Territories depending on them in 
America, &c, and one of the Members of the Right Honorable, 
the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in fforeign Parts," 
in behalf of said Society, purchased for " £600, sterling money 
of England," f the famous property " at the Point ; " the Survey 
of Avhich, by Daniel Leeds in 1689, and the description of its 
" Great and Stately Palace," J by Gabriel Thomas in 1698, are 
given on pp. 11 and 17. 

fin 1712, there is the following report : "The Society did little else this 
year in the cause of the Church abroad, but finish the contract for the house 
at Burlington, [known afterwards as Burlington House,] mentioned in the 
abstract of 1711, as the best and most commodious place for fixing one of the 
Bishops' Sees ; which was effected by agreement between John Tatham, gent., 
and his excellency Robert Hunter. Esq. ; the former having made over the 
fee simple for ever to the Society, on the valuable consideration of six hun- 
dred pounds English sterling, or nine hundred pounds current money of New 
York, to be computed eight shillings each ounce, at the expiration of four 
'Calendar months, after the date thereof, Feb. 26, 1711." 

J The first oooupant of this "Palace" — John Tatham, a man of great 
wealth and culture, (whose Will, and Inventory, in the Secretary's office at 
Trenton, affbrd much information concerning him) — died in 1701, and left 



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107 



TO BE MADE HABITABLE EOE A BISHOP. 

3Iessrs. Evans and Talbot to the Society. 

Burlington^ December 4tb, 1712. 
Eight Reyerexd axd Right Hox. Sirs : 

* "In these parts of the world the great enemy of 
mankind hath for many hundred years ruled with an uninter- 
rupted sway, and we are sensible that he doth and will use all 
the means possible to hinder and discourage the Missionaries, 
whose business it is to promulgate the Gospel, and by that 
means to deliver his Captives from the greatest slavery into the 
glorious liberty of the Sons of God. Oar Great Master hath, in 
these parts, raised us up some faithful friends of all ranks who 
are zealouslv affected both to us and the work we are eno^ao;ed 
in, and nothing now seems more wanting to establish the 
Church, in a flourishing state, than the residing of a Bishop 
amongst us in these parts ; which we are in hopes it will not be 
long before we are blessed with, since we are informed the Hon- 
orable Society have closed the bargain for the house at the point, 
and directed the fitting it up for the reception of a Bishop. ^Ve 
are sorry any accident should have altered so charitable and 
good a design, and therefore you may imagine it was with no 
little concern that we beheld the damage done by fire, on one 
part of the house, since the closing of the bargain, (though before 
any possession was given to any person on account of the 
Society.) On the 23d October,, in the afternoon, by the foul- 
ness of the chimney and carelessness of one Stiles, who kept 
possession for Mr. Tatham, the fire took on the top of the Roof, 
but by the industry and care of all sorts of people was extin- 
guished with the loss of part of the Roof of that part of the 
house that lieth next the Town, and little other damage. His 
Excellency the Governor, by his letter to Mr. Talbot of the 3d 
Xovember, 1712, hath directed him to repair the house and 
make it habitable for a Bishop ; which since it could not be 

it lo liis widoAv, Elizabeth. She died shortly afterwards, and left it to Thomas 
Eevell, in trust for her children, being minors. Her son — likewise named 
John — and Mary, his wife, of Xew York, executed to Gov. Hunter, the Deed, 
from which these particulars are drawn, and which was acknowledged before 
David Jamison, Esq., Chief Justice of the Province of New Jersey. 



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done this winter, as your Honours may see by the enclosed cer- 
tificate, we thought it more advisable to acquaint the Societj 
thereof, as also our opinion that it would be less chargeable and 
more certain, if the Society would please to give order to some 
person in this Town to manage that work, and believe Mr. Sec- 
retary Bass hath already (without any directions) taken care to 
provide some things necessary for the covering the House and 
fencing the Garden, &c., and whose zeal for the interests of the 
Church, and particularly for the coming over of a Bishop, we 
believe is not unknown to the Honorable Society, if his letters 
of the 22d May, 1711, Avith the enclosed papers, were communi- 
cated to the Society. We herewith send the Honorable Society 
the carpenter's opinion about the repairs, and believe that the 
sending Glass, Sheet Lead, ^s^ails, &c., from England would be 
both better and cheaper than to purchase them here. We 
earnestly pray for a blessing on your pious endeavours for the 
Glory of God and good of his Church, and remain with all 
imaginable deference, 

^' Right Reverend and Right Honorable, 

" Your most obedient and faithful 
^' Humble Servants, 

^'EvAN Evans, 
" John Talbot.'^ 

feom the clergy at a general meeting. 
" May it please the Honorable Society 

" As your Honble Body has recommended to us in particular 
manner the maintaining a correspondence among ourselves in 
order to cherish a Brotherly affection so we have made it our 
business ever since we had the Letter by our Rev"^ Brother M"" 
Henderson to take the most effectual measures we could think 
of to carry on the said most useful christian design and as we of 
the province of Pensilvania have fixed upon certain times to 
meet together so to render the correspondence so earnestly 
recommended to us the more extensive and consequently the 
more acceptable to our Honble Superiors. 

We at our meeting at Philadelphia agreed at a Motion made 



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* 109 



by some of our Brethereii of New York and New Jersey con- 
cerning a General Meeting of the Clergy of the said provinces 
and us in prosecution of the said Motion, we fixed upon this 
day and place and tho' we make no doubt of our Bretherens 
good inclinations to give us a Meeting, yet to our surprize none 
of them besides one Reverend Brother M"" Talbot thought fit to 
be present ; the reason of this unexpected disappointment we 
cannot find out except the Governor of New York his summon- 
ing our Bretheren to meet at New York much about this time, 
which we cannot chuse but construe from what we can learn 
from very good hands, to be done to frustrate our well designed 
endeavours to follow the Instructions given to us by the Honble 
Society in this particular we have nothing further that is 
material to add having by this very opportunity written at large 
to the Board we beg leave to conclude this with an account of 
our going directly from this place to the opening of a New 
Church at Oxford where M"" Talbot is to preach upon that occa- 
sion & with our hearty prayers for a constant blessing upon the 
most Christian endeavors of our Hon'ble patrons and Benefac- 
tors, we are with all imaginable deference 
May it please the Honble Society 
Your most dutiful & most 

Obed* humble Servants 
^' Geo. Ross John Talbot 

John Clubb Evan Evans 

Jac. Hendehson Ericus Biorck 

John Humphreys Andrew Sandel." 



"soliciting for a bishop these ten years. 
Ifr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

" Burlington, Augs' 6th 1713. 

"Sir: 

"Tho' I have not had the favour of a Letter from the Honble 
Society since Mr. Henderson arrived in these parts, yet I think 
it my duty to take all opportunities of paying all dutiful regards 
to that Venerable body. Therefore I could not fail to salute 
them by the hands of my good brother Evans Rector of the 



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Church at Philadelphia who comes home in the s-ervice of the 
Church which never w^anted patronage so much as now in all 
these two provinces particularly New Jersey and New^ York and 
I may say in Pensylvania too. The rights of the Church are 
invaded and possessed by her Enemiesv Affidavits are procured 
and dispersed by the w^orst of men against the best Missionaries, 
the plate and books given by the Society and other benefactors 
are violently carried away^ and those who pretend to be pro- 
moters of the Gospel use all ways and means and have 
persuaded one unworthy Brother to carry affidavit from province 
to province against another and as I have always said we 
cannot expect any better treatment till we have a superior 
pastor to order and establish the Church, this is the one thing 
necessary which I have been soliciting these ten years. I find 
it all in vain for them or us to offer to propagate the Gospel or 
Erect the Church without Bishop or Deacon w^iich I humbly 
offer to our superiors at home for the burden is too hard upon 
us poor presbiters, who labor under all sorts of perils and diffi- 
culties which we are not able to bear any longer. But I need 
sav no more by this worthy Brother, who has been a faithful 
Laborer here these 13 years and has a particular account of the 
affairs of all his churches to whom I do with all humility refer 
the Honble Society upon whose credit they may safely depend. 
So desiring your prayers and protection 

" I remain Sir &c 

" JoHx Talbot." 

A EEMOXSTEANCE Ais'D PETITION. 

The ChurcJucardens and Vestry to the S. P. G. 

'^Burlington March 25^^^ 1714. 
Right Rey° and Right Hoxoeable 

" To whom with a greater probability of success can w^e ad- 
dress in a cause in which the Church is concerned than to you 
whose peculiar business is to propagate the Gospel in Foreign 
parts : you that have w'ith an uncommon generosity at a vast 
expense and charge sent over Ministers rightly ordained into 
these dark corners of the wwld to turn the people from darkness 



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Ill 



to light from error to truth and by all means to endeavor the 
increase and flourishing estate of the Church we believe cannot 
but be concerned at those steps that are taken by some amongst 
us to defeat all those good designs to discourage and ruin our 
Infant Church and propagate false and erroneous principles 
destructive to the interest both of the Church and state. On 
these considerations it is that we humbly presume to address 
your honours that you would afford us your assistance to put a 
stop unto those mischiefs that unreasonable men under a color 
of a law are endeavoring to bring on this Church and Colony. 
Had only our estates been endangered by their mischievous- 
devices we should not have presumed to interrupt you from your 
more weighty affairs to hear our complaints but when our 
reputations Laws liberties lives and what is and ought to be 
dearer to us than all our holy Religion is subjected to the 
humours of unreasonable men and made the sport of faction and 
party when men whose avowed principle it is that the taking 
of an oath in any cause whatsoever though enjoined by the laws 
of the Land is unlawful shall by a law of their own making be 
admitted to enjoy all offices of profit and trust and to serve on 
all Jurys except Petty Jurys in causes criminal. As your 
Honors will see is designed by the inclosed act past by an As- 
sembly great part of which are Quakers. We hope you will 
give us your assistance to prevent the dangers the Ministers and 
Members of our Church must undeniably be exposed to by such 
laws can your hon^^*^ Society hear that the whole course of the 
common law is changed and men who will not swear mingled 
in the same number Avith those who are under the sacred obliga- 
tion of an oath and this called a Jury and by a law enabled to 
try all causes criminal and mixt and the same persons enabled 
to sit as Judges who have taken no oath for the due discharge 
of their offices and not join with us in addressing her Majesty to 
disallow that act that has given them this power and thereby to 
save us from the dangers threatened. Had we been so happy to 
have a Bishop residing in these parts of the world we doubt not 
he would have put a stop to these growing mischiefs which we 
fear will never be removed without. To remonstrate the state- 
and case of our Churches in writing is both tedious and trouble- 



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some and at last must of necessity fall short of giving that just 
idea of things and persons to any that are at so great a distance 
from these parts as our circumstances rec^uire which would be 
easily discerned and as easily helped by a person of that sacred 
order residing among us. 

"We therefore humbly pray that your Honorable Society 
would be pleased to grant us their assistance in getting tlie 
inclosed act of Assembly disallowed by her ^dajesty and as the 
only means of securing us from the like attempts for the future 
that your endeavors may be used to hasten the sending a Bishop 
amongst us the want of which on the Continent and Islands of 
America is such an instance as the christian world from the 
Apostles days to this time hath never produced the like when 
so many thousand souls as the Xorthern Colonies alone have 
inhabiting in them and the greatest part of them professing 
themselves Members of an Episcopal church have no Bishop 
residing amongst them to rule and govern them it is no wonder 
if the Members grow careless remiss and slack in their duty if 
many fall into scandalous and damning errors, if Atheism 
Deism Quakerism Freethinking other heresies increase 
amongst us, if scandals are both given and taken when the 
Ecclesiastical sword is wanting to punish evil doers to reduce 
the erroneous and cast off the heretics. 

^^How happy were our churches under the administration of 
the Earl of Clarendon a noble Member of your Honorable 
Society to whom we never applied in vain for any thing that 
might promote its Interest and whose protection and favor is 
now so very much Avanted by us here. We are sensible had he 
continued we should have had no need to address your honors 
to prevent the passing an Act so very destructive to the churches 
Interest and do yet comfort ourselves with the hope that he will 
so far remember us as to afford us his assistance in hindring its 
receiving the royal approbation. 

The Rev"^ Mr. Talbot your Missionary unto this Church 
hath not only opposed these practices with an uncommon zeal 
and prudence but in all things hath behaved himself like a truly 
apostolick person his pious discourses and exemplary life as it 
hath been very instrumental in the confirming us in our most 



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lioly faith so hath it in many things defeated their designs in 
these parts and calls for our grateful acknowledgement to you 
for the services he hath done. 

^' We humbly beg your honours pardon for the tediousness of 
this address and that you will believe it is only a sincere desire 
of the prosperity of the best of Churches amongst us and a con- 
cern to see the expense and charge which you have with so 
much generosity expended frustrated by these pernicious prac- 
tices that engages us in this matter. 

''May the Divine Being direct and prosper all your consulta- 
tions for his Glory and the Churches good and may we always 
gratefully acknowledge the services w-e already have received 
and still hope to receive from your honorable Society who are 

''Right Rev^^ and Right Honorable 

your most humble & obedient servants 

The Church w^ardens and Vestry of the 

Church of St. Mary in Burlington 

M-S^UEL Smith } Clmrchwardcns. 
"and others." 



THE SEE-HOUSE IX PERFECT REPAIR. 

Governor Hunter to the Secretary. Extract. 

" New York 10 May 1714. 
* "I have put the house at Burlington in perfect 

repair t it cannot be let because I have no instructions for a 
lease and we have difficulty to find any who will live in it for 
nothing by the year and take care of it. I have drawm Bills for 
the money I have $idvanced on that score as I was directed and 
have sent over the receipts and vouchers, pray intreat for me 
punctual payment for if you knew my circumstances you would 
l)e convinced that I pinched hard to spare it.'' 

t The abstract of the Eeport of the S. P. G. for 1714 says : " And by way of 
preparation for a Suffragan, or Bishop, in one of the Sees upon the continent 
of America, the Society having thought fit to purchase a seat for his residence 
some while since at 600/. sterling expence, in a convenient mansion-house and 
lands, situate at Burlington, within the Jersies ; they have proceeded to ex- 
pend this year, for repairs of damages done by fire and otherwise, under Gov- 
ernor Hunter's inspection and menage, 226/. 7s. oc/." 



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ROWLAND ELLIS, SCHOOLMASTER. 

Mi\ Ellis to the Secretary. 
" Burlington in West Jersey May the 20*^ 1714. 

" Sir 

" Being by the Venerable & worthy body the Honorable 
Society &c appointed Schoolmaster into this Town according 
to their directions I presume (having had some experience of 
the nature & disposition of the people humbly conceiving myself 
more capable then heretofore) to render to the Society a true 
account of the present state condition and progress of my School 
since and after my arrival into this place. 

" At my first coming here I found one that had undertaken 
the charge of the School and had been therein about a twelve 
month before I came, (who when he understood the errant I was 
come upon) endeavored to set the people against me that he 
might be countenanced and continued in the Town insomuch 
that his insinuations prevailed and made the Inhabitants look 
shie upon me at first being a stranger together with what he liad 
suggested proved an obstacle rather than any encouragement to 
piety & learning. Upon my entrance into the School, I found 
about a dozen of young pupils there (thro' the Rev*^ M'" Talbot 
and some more of the good people of the Towns persuasions for 
the retaining and encouraging of this man being he was lame 
and an object of Charity) I consented to take him as an assistant 
thinking thereby to please the people and to gain their love and 
do him service, notwithstanding the diskindness he had done me 
before and still persisted at every opportunity to do more till I 
came better acquainted with the Town and. his intrigue I found 
that it would not answer and that the Town could or would 
afford two Schoolmasters and seeing the number of my boys to 
be but few I told him my intent and gave in my reason, how 
unlikely it was for us both to be in expectation of a maintenance 
by so few to which he replied with a great deal of warmth & 
assurance that he had he thought as good a title and as great a 
priviledge to follow his vocation here, meaning Burlington, as I 
had if not more, thus being set on by some designing men and 
such as he called his Friends (but had better been without them) 



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he arrogantly withstood the Societies power and authority say- 
ing to my face that he cared not for the Society nor none that 
belonged to them what where they to him I he would teach in 
Town whether I would or no with abundance of such imperti- 
nent words until I made him sensible to the contrary producing 
my Licence to which with some reluctancy and grumbling 
he submitted. 

When he was gone I found my number decreasing instead 
of increasing as every young beginner would have expected at 
length I went about enquiring the reason why they were so 
backward and so negligent in the discharge of their duty which 
God had commanded them seeing I was sent, to the end their 
children might be brought up in the nurture and admonition of 
the Lord the reason I could never yet fully learn but most part 
of the people have told me that he had been in their houses 
ushering of malicious suggestions against me (which they have 
since own'dj would consequently prove prejudicial to my reputa- 
tion, these unexpected and God knows undeserved reflections 
proved a great hindrance to my Infant School and I sustained 
no small disadvantage thereby : thus we poor Missionaries suffer 
and all for want of a good Bishop amongst us to maintain our 
cause to suppress such irregularities and be our refuge in time 
of need for unto whom shall we make our complaint but to 
those who supply our wants? or unto whom shall we flee for 
succour to harness ourselves against such miscreants that would 
devour us especially in these parts where we are beset with 
Heathenism Paganism Quakerism and God knows what, having 
the law in their hands and our lives & liberties at their mercy 
I say to whom shall we make our addresses and from whom shall 
we expect relief but from him who is Lord over us, deplorable 
is the case of our Church in these dark corners of her Majestys 
dominions where Quakerism so much and lost will those sheep 
be at last who have n^Shepperd ; but to say no more about this 
it is bad enough I beg leave to return to my former head and 
that is I have got rid of the Serpent thank God and with some 
difficulty regained my lost Lambs which were dispersed abroad 
through the wiles and cunning contrivance of the Fox; and 
have now to the number of 20 & I praise God they daily in- 



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crease but most of them are Quakers enemies to our Church so 
that I can't do as I would but as near as I can without giving 
offence (endeavouring to please everybody) I discharge the duty 
of my office. I shall as much as in me lies be always ready to do 
that Hon''*^ Society all the service I am able either abroad or at 
home & with all the care and diligence I can or may make use 
of to work upon the obstinate minds of Parents as well as their 
offspring to turn them from Darkness to light from error to 
truth and from the Power of Satan to embrace the light and 
taste of the benefits of the Glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus 
Christ the righteous'. 

As to the nature and disposition of the people I could 
enumerate to you several Families in this Town that have sev- 
eral children and have not sent a child to Sohool since nor before 
I. came they being of different persuasions and qualities regard- 
ins neither Peli2:ion nor learnino^ nor their childrens welfare but 

o o o 

bring them up like themselves heathen-like having neither 
knowledge nor understanding of future things nor indeed things 
present unless it be how to get an estate, it grieves me to see so 
many idle children leading onis another to all manner of wicked- 
ness and follow mischievous practices but much more to hear 
their Parents indulge and uphold them therein, I have beged of 
them to send their children to School but to no purpose thus in 
short it is here and these things I thought myself in duty bound 
to give an account of, the substance or what part you seem con- 
venient be pleased to communicate to the Hon^^® Society together 
with my hearty respect in all dutiful obedience, with my kind 
service to yourself 

I conclude Dear Sir &c 

^'Rowland Ellis." 

^^tiie akk of god ix the hands of the philistines." 
To the Queens Most Excellent Majesty. 
^' The humble address of your Majestys Loyal subjects the 3Iinister 
Churchwardens and Vestry of St. Jfarys Church in Burlington 
in new Jersey in America. 
Permit us most gracious Sovereign to lay before your 
Majestys feet the tribulation of the Church in this your Majestys 



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117 



Province distressed by the wiles and insults of Quakerism and 
schism and surrounded with the power of her enemies who with 
unwearied zeal and artifice labour to bring her to the ground 
whom shall we apply to but to heaven in cases of great affliction 
or from whom expect relief to the Church but from your Majesty 
who is Gods image and immediate representative. The present 
difficulty we lie under is a certain new act which the Governor 
Council and Assembly has passed in this your Majestys Province 
to qualify the people called Quakers to serve as Legislators 
Judges Justices Jurors and to execute all offices of Trust or 
profit in the Province which we humbly presume to be an in- 
novation of a very dangerous consequence contrary to the laws 
and Statutes of England and consequently repugnant to your 
Majestys instructions by virtue whereof the Quakers are made 
Pulers and Guardians of the Church and State who ever hated 
one and whose principle it is to deny to defend the other. This 
unrighteous act delivers up the Church to the power of her im- 
placable enemies the Quakers and of all the sects of Dissenters 
the most dangerous to Christianity. This impious act gives them 
(by the laws they shall make and by the Judgments they shall 
please to give) a liberty to dispose of the Estates & liberties of 
your Majestys subjects and to control or persecute the Church 
purely upon the credit of their bare affirmation without any 
lawful qualification without any oath or any other lawful obli- 
gation injoined upon them to the contrary upon which sacred 
obligation of Religious oaths depend all the laws of Great 
Britain both Ecclesiastical and civil which guard the lives and 
liberties of your Majestys Subjects and defend your crown tis the 
basis whereon truth and Justice expand their light in your 
Majestys dominions and your Majestys Throne is establishd by it. 

''We humbly trust in your Majestys goodness that this act so 
contrary to the laws and constitutions of England & to your 
Majesty's Instructions and so pernicious to the Church and state 
may receive no sanction from your Majesty's Royal hand but 
that your Majesty may be pleased to stretch it forth to save us 
for we are sore ao^o;rieved to see the Church of Christ in the 
power of Quakers as were of old the children of Israel to see 
the Ark of God in the hands of the Philistines. Our Infant 



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Church (whose nursing Mother your Majesty is) claims a right 
to be nourished in the arms of your royal care and favor. We 
humbly implore that her preservation may be your Majestys 
care and your Majesty the care of heaven. That your Majesty 
would preserve in its minority the tender Vine that it may 
stretch forth its branches to the floods and from the floods to the 
worlds end—That your Majesty may rescue her from the Gov- 
ernment of Quakers who like the many headed beast are ready 
soon as she is born to devour her. 

We cannot express to your Majesty without abhorence the 
villainous and sacrilegious fact committed by the enemies of our 
religion in Trinity Church at New York where in the night the 
window was broken open the surplice cut and tore in pieces the 
common prayer Books taken out into the Churchyard and there 
defiled with human ordure and the Minister himself goes iu 
danger of his life. The examples and vile indignities upon our 
holy religion may point out to your Majesty the necessity of 
appointing true sons of the Church to rule as well as to act in 
your Majestys Councils in your Majestys Provinces and how 
absolutely necessary and of great service a Bishop would be to 
these Provinces to preserve the order and authority of the 
Church to punish the prophane with Ecclesiastical censures to 
protect the Clergy in discharge of their holy function and 
by his power precept and exemplary life expand the Glory 
of the Gospel. 

From your Majesty the fountain of all goodness upon earth 
we hope for protection and that your Majesty would be pleased 
from the power of schismatics and Quakers from the priesthood 
of Micha from the snare of the Hunter from the Counsellors of 
Zoaii from the Statute of Omri and from people that strive with 
the Priest, to defend and deliver us your Majestys Loyal subjects 
that the sons of the Church may in these distant parts of your 
Majestys Dominions taste the blessings of your Majestys 
righteous & happy administration. 

''From all your Majestys blessings we humbly pray to 
Heaven that God's mercey may long uphold your Majestys 
Throne; — That you may be ever dear to God and your People 
that after a victorious War abroad you may long reign at home 



IN BURLINGTON. 119 

•secure in a glorious peace in the heart of your subjects — That 
your Majesty may long live the joy of your Kingdom — the ter- 
ror of your enemies and the glory of the Earth and may your 
Majestys care of the Church Militant after a long series of 
happy years be at last rewarded with the joys of heaven in the 
Church Triumphant. 

" John Talbot Eectoy . 



^^J. Bass Secf^. 
"Manuel Smith 
"and others.'' 



> Chiir chic ar dens 



"the gospel ridiculed ; THE CHURCH UNDERMINED; THE 
LAWS OF ENGLAND SUBVERTED." 

The Rector &c of St. Mary^s Church to General Nicholson. 
^' May it please your Excellency 

" We are not insensible what a weight of business continually 
presses on your Excellency and of what consequence tis to trifle 
with the least minute of your time, time which must needs be 
extremely precious when the occasions of imploying it are so 
many and of so high and considerable a nature as the Glory of 
God and the good of his Church the honor and interest of her most 
sacred Majesty and the welfare and prosperity of her subjects. 

" No other consideration than this could prevail with us to 
remain so long in silence and stifle the declaration of our joy 
and satisfaction which now we sincerely and heartily make for 
your safe and happy return unto these American parts — honor'd 
and dignified with a character which many have wished for but 
could never obtain and which by the Providence of Almighty 
God and her Majestys great wisdom and goodness has been re- 
served for your Excellency thereby distinguishing you amongst 
the most loyal and deserving of her subjects ever was equal to 
and qualified for so great and difl^usive a Trust ; but as our joys 
on the one hand are redundant, so our grief and complaints on 
the other are extravagant for who that has any sense of religion 
(which teaches us duty to our God — Loyalty to our Sovereign 
and love to our Country) can with any Patience behold the 
doctrines of the Gospel ridiculed and vilified, the Church of 



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Christ undermined and shaken, and the laws of England in 
danger of being intirely subverted. 

The most impious and atheistical Books and Tenets are 
not only cunningly and privately but impudently and publicly 
spread abroad and promulgated & even acts of Assembly past 
(containing most abominable falsities to make them the more 
pallatable) in order to countenance the Quakers those enemies 
to our Church and Holy Religion and enable them to act in all 
places of trust and profit in the Government as well as to serve 
on Grand and Petty Jurys by which means they are capable by 
Indictments &g to destroy the reputations of or at least to cast 
an odium on the Ministers and Members of the Church of 
England ; not to insist on the danger we are in of being deprived 
of our Estates if w^e refuse to humour these pretended Saints in. 
their most frantic and licentious extravagencies. 

''Add to all this the frequent and scandalous reports against 
many sober and religious divines and threatening even the very 
lives of others. 

" Who can without horror & detestation mention or so much 
as think on that hellish sacrilegious act lately perpetrated at 
Xew York or whom can we imasfine to be the authors of it but 
such whose principles lead them to depreciate all religion and to 
persuade men to dwindle down into Atheism or free thinking. 

" Those small attempts against the Churches of Jamaica & 
Amboy serve but as so many shades to embellish & sett ofiP that 
greater masterpiece of villainy and abomination. 

" The particulars of all these matters w^ill in more than ab- 
stracts appear to your Excellency's view in the several addresses 
sent home to Great Britain — The representation of the Clergy 
&c. The originals of all which particularly of that from our 
selves are designed to pass through your Excellencys hands audi 
we hope for and intreat your Excellencys favor in recommend- 
ing them the shortest and surest way to be laid at her Majesty^s 
feet with your Excellencys sentiments upon the whole which w^e- 
presume naturally falls into the Province allotted you and may 
be occasion of redressing some of the greatest irregularities that 
have ever happened since these parts of the World have been 
added to the dominions of the imperial Crown, of Great Britain. 



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121 



For the rest when we are made happy in your Excel lencys 
presence in this Province which we are encouraged by a sight 
of your Commission shortly to expect we shall make it our 
business to evince (as we have ever done) the Loyalty of our 
principles and the justice of our complaints which shall likewise 
be attended with a demonstration of the regard we have for your 
Excellency's person and merit to either of which the greatest 
part of us are no strangers. 

" We remain w^ith the most profound respect 
''May it please your Excellency 

" Your Excellencys most obecV humble Serv*^ 
Alex^ Geiffith Att. Genl. John Talbot Redov 

Rowland Ellis Sch, JA. Dan^ Coxe 

Manuell Smith Hu. Huddy 

Rich Allison Dan^ Leeds 

Jonathan Lovett J. Bass 

Abraham Hewlings/' 

the speedy sending of a bishop the only remedy.*^" 
To his ExceW'y Got'' Nicholson, Extract., 

"To mention no more of these ungrateful matters 
we think it our duty lastly to complain to your Excellency of 
an affair which we believe will be a very great obstruction to 
the progress of the Gospel in the Government of the Jerseys viz. 
An Act of Assembly lately passed at Burlington entituling the 
Quakers to a part in the legislature with an Indulgence to them 
of the affirmation tho' rejected at home for the manifold injuries 
& wrongs done by it — this pernicious act was long aimed at but 
ineffectually by reason of the interposition of some honest Gen- 
tlemen members of the Church of England but these being by 
the restless malice of a party by indirect means viz. by accusing 
them most falsely of being disturbers of the peace of the 
Province procured to be removed from the Council at this 
time no friend of the Church being in the way this act passed 
without opposition. 

" These and a great number of affronts offered to the Churcli 
of Christ and the injurious treatment of us the Ministers of it, 
put us under the necessity of crying aloud for succour and pro- 



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tection and we have reason to bless God that your Excellency 
is now upon the spot invested with power to examine where the 
cause of all this lies. 

" We have cause to fear that if a speedy stop be not pat to 
those grievances the fruit of our labours here will be destroyed 
and the pious aims of the Venerable Society for promoting re- 
ligion and piety will be rendered frustrate. The only remedy 
we can see for preventing of these calamities is the speedy 
sending a Bishop into these parts to protect us and stand in the 
Gap against any person who may encourage or countenance any 
lawless designs against the Church. Sir the house at Burlington 
bought in the name of the Venerable Society for his habitation 
is compleately repaired for his reception according to their order, 
we must pray for such a person and the affairs of the Church 
languish for want of him and if notwithstanding all this we are 
not so happy as to have one sent to us, we are likely to run into 
independency and confusion. Manifold hav'e been the represen- 
tations of this nature Avhich we thought it our duty from time 
to time to offer to the prudent consideration of pious and ven- 
erable persons whom we believe immediately concerned in 
providing for our relief God knows not without great cause, but 
with great grief we speak it, all hitherto ineffectual — Sir we are 
a considerable body and should not be left destitute of a head, 
the cause is the greatest of all causes the glory of God and the 
good of Souls which our holy Church engages herself to promote ; 
it is owing to the alone mercy of the great and good God that 
it has flourished as we now see it, but as it is surrounded with 
Enemies attacked from many quarters by violent and restless 
inquiries of Satan we are not without reason and fear that the 
last state may be worse than the first, unless speedy succour be 
aclministred to our distresses. 

^'To you then Sir we have recourse in this our exigency and 
humbly entreat your Excellency who have upon all occasions 
demonstrated yourself to be a worthy Son friend and Patron to 
this best of Churches and its Ministers to transmit this our 
complaint with which we make bold to trouble your Excellency 
together with your sentiments upon the matter to the Venerable 
Society and all other Xoble Patriots who have sincerely at heart 



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123 



the cause of God and religion and we shall acknowledge this in 
^ all humanity as the greatest obligation you can lav upon us 
to be for ever 

" May it please your Excellency 
your Excellencys 

^' Most obliged and 

most humble Servants 

" JoHx Talbot 
Rector of the Church of Burlington 
AxDREW Saxdel 
Minister at Wicaco near Philadelphia 
Feaxcts Phillips 
Minister of Christs Church in Philadelphia 
JoHx Humphreys 
" Minister of the Church at Oxford near Philadelphia J ^ 

DEATH OF THE QUEEX. 

In 1714, on the first day of August in the morning," says 
Smollett, with his usual particularity of statement, ''AxxE 
Stuaet, cjueen of Great Britain, expired in the fiftieth year of 
her age, and in the thirteenth of her reign. >=< ;k >n 

" The virtues of her heart were never called in question. She 
was a pattern of conjugal affection and fidelity, a tender mother, 
a warm friend, an indulgent mistress, a munificent patron, a 
mild and merciful prince, during whose reign no subject's blood 
was shed for treason. She was zealously attached to the Church 
of England from conviction rather than from prepossession, un- 
alfectedly pious, just, charitable, and compassionate. She felt a 
mother's fondness for her people, by whom she was universally 
beloved with a warmth of affection which even the prejudice of 
party could not abate. In a word, if she was not the greatest, 
she was certainly one of the best and most unblemished sover- 
eigns that ever sat upon the throne of England ; and well 
deserved the expressive, though simple epithet of *The good 
Queen Anne.'" — History of England, Vol.1, pp. 502-3. 

GEORGE, THE FIRST. 

"The parliament," continues Smollett, "having assembled, 
pursuant to the act which regulated the succession, the lord- 
chancellor, on the fifth day of August, told them, that the privy- 
council appointed by the elector of Brunswick had proclaimed 
that prince under the name of king George, as the lawful and 
rightful sovereign of these kingdoms. * ^ =^ 



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It was the misfortune of this prince^ as well as a very great 
prejudice to the nation, that he had been misled into strong pre- 
possessions against the tories, who constituted such a consider- * 
able part of his subjects. They were now excluded from all 
share of the royal favour, which was wholly engrossed by their 
enemies: these early marks of aversion, which he was at no 
pains to conceal, alienated the minds of many who would other- 
wise have served him with fidelity and affection. An instan- 
taneous and total change was effected in all offices of honour 
and advantage. * * * The king declared in 
council his firm purpose to support and maintain the churches 
of England and Scotland as they were by law established ;. 
an aim which he imagined might be effectually accomplished, 
without impairing the toleration allowed by law to protestant 
dissenters. ^ ^ 

"Meanwhile, the number of the malcontents in England was 
considerably increased by the king's attachment to the whig fac- 
tion. The clamour of the Church's being in danger was revived;, 
jealousies were excited ; seditious libels dispersed ; and danger- 
ous tumults raised in different parts of the kingdom. * 

" The Pretender took this opportunity to transmit copies of 
a printed manifesto. In this he mentioned the good intentions 
of his sister towards him, which were prevented by her deplor- 
able death. He observed that his people, instead of doing him 
and themselves justice, had proclaimed for their king a foreign 
prince, contrary to the fundamental and incontestable laws of 
hereditary right which their pretended acts of settlement could 
never abrogate. * * * Religion was mingled in 
all political disputes. The high churchmen complained that 
impiety and heresy daily gained ground from the connivance, or 
at least the supine negligence of the whig prelates. The lower 
house of convocation had, before the Queen's death, declared 
that a book published by Dr. Samnel Clarke under the title of 
' The Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity,' contained assertions 
contrary to the Catholic Faith. * * >k ^j^he dis- 
putes about the Trinity increasing, the archbishops and bishops 
received directions, which were published, for preserving unity 
in the Church, the purity of the christian faith concerning the 
Holy Trinity, and for maintaining the peace and quiet of the 
state. By these every preacher was restricted from delivering 
any other doctrine than what is contained in the Holy Scriptures 
with respect to the Trinity ; and from intermeddling in any 
affairs of state or government. The like prohibition was extended 
to those who should write, harangue, or dispute on the same 
subjects.'^ — History of England ^ Vol: I, pp. 506, 508-510. 



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ME. TAI.EOT SICK AND DISHEARTENED. 

Mr, Talbot to the Secretary. 

Burlington, October 28tli, 1714. 

'^I sent a letter by Mr. Evans, wherein I desired leave of the 
Honorable Society to come home. I have been long enough in 
these parts to see iniquity established by law, and that by some 
of your own members, and what good can your Missionaries do ? 
I have been sick a long time this fall with a burning fever, 
which made me so weak that I could scarce speak. I could not 
preach, nor read prayers, so the service of God ceased. In all 
this Province of West New Jersey there never was any minister 
of Christ's Church settled but myself I have built three 
Churches since I came here, but have nobody to keep them, 
nor myself neither. We have had a very sickly time this year; 
I have buried more than in ten years before ; and many Church 
people died that had nobody to visit them when sick, nor bury 
them when dead. Let them that have the watch look out, 'tis 
they must give account ; I am clear of the blood of all men, 
abroad and at home, and so I hope to keep myself. The 
Society were once upon a good resolution to send Deacons to be 
School Masters ; if they had done so to Burlington, to Bristol, 
to Hopewell, they might have kept the Church doors open, for 
they could read the Prayers and Homilies, Baptize and Cate- 
chize, they could visit the sick and bury the dead; but now 
they must bury one another ; they have no where to go but to 
Quakers' meetings, w^hich are as bad as Indians' ; there's noth- 
ing but powawing and conjuring to raise a Devil they cannot 
lay again ; and now that this wickedness is established by law, 
^vhat should we do here any longer ? They do declare in the 
presence of God Almighty, they don't swear, call him to witness 
all they say is no more than yea or nay. 

" The Church at New Bristol, over against Burlington, was 
opened about St. James' day, and so called St. James' Church, 
by the Rev. Mr. Philips, who preached the first sermon. The 
Church was full of people from all parts, who were liberal con- 
tributors to it. I went now and then to preach there on Sun- 
days in the afternoon before I was sick, but since that I have 



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not been able, so the Chnrch has- been shut up, almost ever since 
it was opened. The Church at Hopewell has been built these 
ten or twelve years, and never had a minister settled there yet, 
though they have sent several Petitions and Addresses to the 
Society; but I understand since, that Hopewell, Maidenhead, 
&c., were kept under the thumb for Cotton Mather and the rest 
of the Xew England Doctors to send their emissaries ; and those 
hirelings have often come there, and as often run away, because 
they were hirelings, and cared for no souls but themselves. 

"As for the Church at New Bristol, it was first begun by the 
zealous Thorowgood Moore, of pious memory ; and when he was 
taken away by this same cursed faction that is now^ rampant, I 
was unwilling any of his good works should fall to the ground, 
so I crossed the water at my own cost to serve those poor people, 
who lived in Darkness and the shadow of death, in the midst of 
Heathenism, Atheism, and Quakerism ; but it pleased God by 
our preaching the word in season and out of season, some came 
to believe and were baptized, they and their children, and two 
of the Chief people there, Mr. John Rowland and Mr. Anthony 
Burton, were willing to undertake to build a Church, which 
since they have done, and I believe they will endow it too if 
they get a minister before they die. I gave them five pounds 
and a pulpit of black walnut, which cost as much more, to en- 
courage them ; I promised to lay their case before the pious 
society, that they may take some care of them, that they be not 
a reproach to the heathenish Quakers, who are too apt to reflect 
upon us, ^ where is your Priest, where is your Minister, and 
where is your Church, it may serve us for a meeting house,' &c. 
Pudet hcee opprobria nobis did potuisse et non potuisse repelli. 

" But the History of the Church at Burlington, &c., has been 
so much belter done by Colonel Jeremiah Bass, Esq., Secretary 
of this Province, and transmitted home, by the hands of the 
Honorable General JSTicholson, that I need say no more at 
present, but desire the prayers and blessing of the venerable 
Society for their 

" Most humble and faithful Missionary 
" And servant, 

" JoHx Talbot." 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH AT BURLINGTOJ^", NEW JERSEY, 

BY JEREMIAH BASS, ESQ., DELIVERED BY GENERAL NICHOLSON.f 

''SOLI DEO GLOEIA. 

" After a long season of Ignorance, Superstition, and Idolatry 
had covered this Province, it pleased that Infinite Being whose 
goodness is over all his works, and who hath promised to give 
unto our Blessed Saviour, the Immaculate Jesus, the Heathen 
for his Inheritance, and the utmost parts of the Earth for his 
possession, to illuminate these Provinces with some Rayes of his 
Glory and Goodness, by sending the glorious light of the Gospel 
amongst us. The first European inhabitants of this Eiver 
were the subjects of the King of Sweden, who in their first 
settlement in this River, brought with them the Religion of 
their country, in which, to their commendation, and the care of 
their Missionaries, they have yet continued ; few of them hav^ing 
at any time from their first settlement to this day, apostated 
from their Christian Faith, to the envy of Quakerism. 

" The next Inhabitants were the Dutch, who having taken 
the River from the Swedes, introduced their Laws, Government,, 
and Religion, which again suffered an alteration, by the coming 
in and conquest of these parts by the English, who in their first 
settlement of this Province, seemed to mind more the business 
of their Trade and Plantation, than that great concern of their 
souls. There being in the Western Division, no settled Society 
or congregation of any of the Church, or any Dissenters, except 
Quakers ; and although some Reverend Divines, as they occa- 
sionally passed through this Province, preached the Gospel and 
administered the ordinance of Baptism to some few persons, and 
by that means sowed the seeds of the Gospel, that have since 
sprung up amongst us, and excited the desires of some of the 
Inhabitants to make a more diligent enquiry into the true way 
of worshipping God, and had in some measure taken off those 
prejudices that most of the Inhabitants laboured under, by 
education, example and reading the Books and hearing the dis- 
courses of such as had misrepresented both the Doctrine and 

t "Copied from a MS. obtained by me in England, from tlie papers in^tlie 
possession of the Lord Bishop of London, at Fulham. F. L. Hawks, 1836J'' 



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Discipline of the Church of England ; yet we cannot properlv 
begin any History of the Church but from the arrival of the 
Reverend Mr. Edward Portlock, who at the desire of several of 
the Proprietors of the Eastern Division of this Province, came 
over, ordained by the Right Reverend Henry, Lord Bishop of 
London, to take the care and cure of souls, as rector of a Church 
to be built at Perth-Aniboy, the Metropolis of the Eastern Divi- 
sion of this Province, who arrived in this Province, and made 
his application to the Governor,, for the Proprietors, in the year 

; who with the consent and approbation of the Agents, 

for the Proprietors, called the council of Proprietors, set apart 
one of the Houses (that had been formerly built at the charge of 
the general Proprietors) for the peculiar service and worship of 
God, according to the Laws of England, which House, by the 
Contribution of several pious and well-disposed persons, was 
soon covered, and glazed, and fitted with seats and a Pulpit, and 
Mr. Portlock put into possession of the same, (which by the way 
is the only Church they have to this day at Perth-Amboy) ; in 
the interim, the said Mr. Portlock preached sometimes at the 
Governor's House, sometimes at a House belonging to Mr. 
Dockwra of London, Merchant, sometimes in the neighbouring 
Towns of Woodbridge, Piscataway, Elizabeth Town, and when 
the Governor's business called him into the Western Division, 
accompanied him to Burlington, where the public Town House 
was allowed him for that service. This good work was at the 
same time carried on by the Rev. Mr. Yesey, in the Eastern 
Division, and the Rev. Mr. Clayton, Minister of Christ Church, 
in Philadelphia. These beginnings of Light, Vvhich through 
the Blessing of God were not unsuccessful,, and the division that 
at this time happened amongst the people called Quakers, by 
Mr. George Keith's opposing some of their principal errors, 
occasioned several pious and well disposed Christians to think 
of erecting. a place in Burlington, peculiarly dedicated and set 
apart for the service and worship of God, according to the usage 
of the best of Churches, the Church of England ; who were herein 
much encouraged and assisted by the pious discourses and ser- 
mons of the Rev. Mr. Evan Evans, Rector of Christ Church in 
Philadelphia, who frequently came over into this Province, 



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preached and baptized both Infants and Adult persons^ and the 
Eev. Mr. John Talbot, our worthy Minister, a Missionary of 
the Honorable Society for the propagation of the Gospel in 
Foreign Parts ; this good work was very much forwarded by 
the generous contribution of his Excellency Francis Nicholson, 
Esq., then Governor of Virginia, who we must own to be our 
first and best Benefactor, and indeed he gave life and motion to 
the whole work, by a generous contribution of nigh £50, to be 
laid out towards that service ; and since, I have the just occa- 
sion to mention that worthy patron of our Churches (in whose 
commendation on this score too much can hardly be said). I 
may be therefore bold in affirming, that no Church in these 
parts hath wanted assistance towards its foundation, reparation, 
or beautifying but hath on application tasted of his bounty; no 
Missionaries or Ministers, that have had the happiness of his 
acquaintance, have parted from him without some mark of his 
favour ; nor no devout and pious member, in any exigency or 
distress, has applied to him for relief or support in vain. On 
this encouragement, and the assistance of some considerable 
benefactions of £50, from the members of the Church at Phila- 
delphia; £12 10s. from the Eev. Mr. Myles at Boston, and the 
courteous care and diligence of Mr. Eobert Wheeler, of Bur- 
lington, merchant, since deceased, (who has sometimes been in 
advance above £150, out of his own pocket), and the contribu- 
tions of several other persons, who though not particularly men- 
tioned, will be rewarded by Him, who has promised a reward 
for a Cup of Cold Water, given to a Disciple in the name 
of a Disciple. 

"The Church of St. Mary in Burlington, in the Western 
Division of the Province of New Jersey, had the foundation 
stone laid by the Eev. John Talbot, Missionary from the Hon- 
orable Society for propagating the Gospel, on the 25th day of 
March, in the year of our Lord 1703 ; being a day sacred to the 
memory of the Annunciation of the Conception of our Blessed 
Saviour to the Virgin Mary, which gave name to the Church. 
This beginning was carried on with that Industry and Dih'gence, 
chiefly by the said Mr. Wheeler, that it was inclosed, covered, 

I 



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ceiled, and glazed, and the Holy Sacrament administered therein, 
by the Rev. Mr. John Talbot, on Whitsunday, the 4th of June, 
1704; the Divine Service having been read and Sermons 
preached in the said Church ever since the 22d of August, in 
the preceding year, 1703. Thus the work of God and his 
Church was carried on amongst us, with great alacrity. The 
Burying ground purchased for the Church, containing in all 
about three acres, being well fenced in, and Pews and Seats in 
the Church, the members began to think it convenient to form 
themselves into a regular Society, according to the Law and 
Customs of England, and thereupon addressed themselves by 
Petition to his Excellency, Edward, Lord Cornbury, (since Earl 
of Clarendon,) her Majesty's Governor of this Province, and a 
real friend of our Church, who on the 4th October, 1704, 
granted his Warrant for a Patent to Incorporate them, under 
his Privy Seal, with all requisite and necessary powers for their 
encouragement and support.f The Church thus settled, under 

f This " Patent" — which Mr. Bass, in a subsequent portion of his History, in- 
forms us was not passed — is in the ofBce of the Secretary- of State at Trenton, anci 
reads as follows: "Edward Viscount Cornbury Captain General & Gover'r 
in Chief in & over the Provinces of New Jersey New York and all the Terri- 
tories and Tracts of Land depending thereon in America and Vice Admiral 
of the same &c. Whereas Several of the Inhabitants of the Town and County 
of Burlington in her ]Majestys Province of Nova Casaria or New Jersey out of 
a Pious Zeal for the promoting the Worship of God according to the Usage of 
the Church of England as by Law established, Have by Voluntary Contril^u- 
tions erected a Church in ye Town of Burlington for the performing of Divine 
service according to the usage of the said Church ; And there being as yet no 
Settlement of Officers necessary for the well Governmt of the same: I Have 
Therefore thought fitt for the better KeguLation and Encouragemt of the In- 
habitants to Constitute and appoint for this Year Eobert Wheeler & Hugh 
Huddy Gentlemen to be Church AVardens of the said Church called by the 
name of Saint Annes Church in Burlington to continue for one year. And I 
do likewise appoint the Honble Coll Eichard Ingoldesby Esqr Lieut : Gover- 
nor of Her Majesty's Provinces of New Jersey New York &c Nathaniel West- 
land Thomas Kevell Danl Leeds William Budd Esqs John Eaberts George 
Willis William Bustill John Hamell Edmond Steward Gents to be Vestry 
men of the said Church, Authorizeing and Impowering the Church Wardens & 
Vestry or any Six of them to meet together and Transact with the Assistance 
of the" Minister all things necessary for the benefit and Incouragemt of the 
said Church and at ye Expiration of the Term of one Year All the Commu- 
nicants of the sd Church shall be appointed to meet in the said Church upon 
a Certain Day to Chuse Church Wardens and Vestry men for the Y'ear 
Ensueing which said Day shall be declar'd by the Minister immediately after 
Divine Service the next Sunday before the Day for the Intented election, and 
BO from year to year, which said Church Wardens and Vestry men are hereby 



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the care of the Rev. Mr. John Talbot, through the Blessing of 
God, on his ministry, grew and increased so that we had sub- 
scriptions made, and the foundation laid, for a Church at Hope- 
well, in the upper part of the County of Burlington, which hath 
been since finished, which was for some time supplied by the 
Rev. Mr. May, but is now without any minister. We had 
another begun at Salem, which by some unhappy accidents, hath 
been since discontinued, though not without some hopes of being 
revived, when it shall please God to send some one amongst us, 
that careth for the welfare, and seeketh the good of the Churches ; 
to both of which Churches we find his Excellency.^ Colonel 
Xicholson, one of the first and chiefest Benefactors ; and here I 
cannot omit mentioning the Honorable Colonel Coxe, then one 
of Her Majesty's Council for this Province, who was one of the 
f rst subscribers to our Church at Burlington, and has given the 
like assistance to that at Hopewell, together with the assurance 
of settling 200 acres of Land, out of the nighest and most con- 
venient part of his Land, contiguous to the said Church, for a 
glebe for the Minister, whenever it shall please God a mission- 
ary be sent over, to take care of that Church, or sooner if it be 
desired. I might also mention the Churches of Chester, Xew" 
Castle, Dover River, Apoquimony, Oxford, and Bristol, that 
about the time, were either begun or finished ; but designing to 
confine myself to Burlington only, I purposely omit any par- 
ticulars of them. Our Reverend Minister's affairs calling him 
for England, in the year of our Lord 1705, he appointed the 
Rev. Mr. Thorowgood Moore to serve the Church in his room, 
a person of morals, exemplary meekness, piety and charity. 
Our Yestry thought it their duty, by the Rev. Mr. Talbot, to 
send home Addresses to Her Majesty, and a Letter of Thanks to 
the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and the 
Honorable the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, which 

vested with all Kequisites and necessary po-^ers and Priviledges nsiiallr En- 
joyed by Church. Wardens and Yestry men in ye Kingdom of England. ' 

"In Witness whereof I the said Lord Cornbury have hereunto sett my hand 
and Seal this fourth day of October Anno Eeg Eeg. Annee nunce Anglice &c 
Tertio Annoq Dom. 1704. 

" Cornbury." 
By His Excellencv's Command 

" J. Bass." 



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are too large to be inserted in this Essay. Our Church for 
some time found no considerable alterations by the absence of 
our worthy Rector ; but that enemy of our happiness, who had 
been many times heretofore sowing the seeds of Division and 
Dissention amongst us, (which through the care and prudence of 
our Rector, were not suffered to grow and increase) took advan- 
tage of his absence, and stirred up such a flame, that had almost 
broke us to pieces, and occasioned the unhappy removal both 
of Mr. Moore and the Rev. Mr. Brooke, Rector of the Church 
in Elizabeth Town, (erected chiefly by the care and diligence of 
Colonel Richard Townly, w^ho has given the ground it stands 
on, and a place for a Burying Ground,) who have not been heard 
of since their departure from Marble-Head, in the year 1707. 
But I willingly pass over this subject, too sad to be insisted on, 
charitably hoping that all wlio were any ways the unhappy 
authors of it, have since blotted out their sins by repentance, 
and I have good cause to believe that had we been so happy, to 
have enjoyed an Ecclesiastical Governor, to have dispensed the 
censures of the Church, and to have determined difl^erences, that 
will sometimes unavoidably occur, betwixt Ministers and Mem- 
bers, and betwixt Ministers and the People, this mischief had 
been prevented or cured ; it is no wonder if our Communicants 
grew remiss and slack in their duty, if too many fell away in 
scandalous sins of schism, if error and heresy increased, if scan- 
dals were both taken and given (as there were in this case), 
when the Ecclesiastical sword was wanting, to punish evil-doers, 
to resist the unruly, to reduce the erring, and to cut ofl" the 
obstinate and heretics. By this unhappy absence of our Rector, 
who was then in England, and of Mr. Moore who was gone 
from us, the number of our Communicants, and the Interest of 
our Church sensibly decreased, but began again to revive on the 
return of our Reverend Rector in the year 1708, who acquainted 
us that he had presented our humble Address to Her Majesty, 
and the other Letters that we sent ; and that Her Majesty had 
been graciously pleased to give us Lead, and Glass, and Pulpit 
Cloth, and Altar Cloth, and a Silver Chalice, and Salver for 



IX BUKLINGTON. 133 

t 

the Communion Table,t and a Brocade Altar Cloth; and that 
she had also sent Lead, and Glass, and Pulpit Cloths, and Altar 
Cloths for the Churches of Hopewell and Salem, which we 
received by the hands of the Honorable Col. Robert Quarry. 
He also brought us an Embossed Silver Chalice and Patten, the 
gift of Madam Catharine Bovey, of Flaxley ; j for all which our 
A^estry returned their thanks by Addresses and Letters of the 
6th of November, 1708. 

" His Excellency, the Lord Cornbury, being succeeded in the 
Government of this Province, by His Excellency the Lord 
Lovelace, whose Commission was published the 20th of Decem- 
ber, 1708, all things relating to the Church here, continued 
much at a stand. His Excellency never coming so far as Bur- 
lington, nor as I know of, having ever been at Church in this 
Province, whilst he enjoyed that Government. By the death 
of that Nobleman, in the year 1709, the Government devolved 
upon Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, then Lieutenant Governor of 
the Provinces of New Jersey and New York, under whose 
administration, our Vestry (that by some unaccountable neglect, 
had omitted to pass the charter designed for us, by the Earl of 
Clarendon) got it now passed, under the Broad Seal of this 
Province, whereby they became incorporated by the name of the 
Minister, Church- Wardens, and Vestry, of the Church of St. 
Mary in Burlington ; which was enrolled in the Secretary's 
Office, the 25th of January, 1709. By this Charter, the Rev. 
Mr. John Talbot, Rector, Mr. Robert Wheeler, and Mr. George 
Willis, Church- Wardens, and Col. Daniel Coxe, Lieut. Col. 
Huddy, Alexander Griftith, Her Majesty's Attorney General, 
Jeremiah Bass, Her Majesty's Secretary of this Province, and 
sundry others, were appointed, constituted and made a Body 
Corporate and Politic, in deed and in name, to have Com- 
munity and succession perpetual, with powers to purchase, take 

t This " Chalice and Salver," are still (1876) in use. They are both without 
any ornament, or device ; each has engraved upon it, " Annee Regina?." 

J This " Embossed Silver Chalice and Patten," are still (1876) in use. The 
chalice is richly ornamented ; having on its bowl, stem and base, heads of 
angels, in full relief, and emblems of the Passion. Under its base, and on 
the reverse of the paten also, is this quaint inscription, " The Gift of Mrs. 
Cartherine Bovey of fflaxley in Gloucester sheire to St. Slarys Church att Burling- 
ton in new Jersey in America." 



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and receive Lands, &c., in fee and perpetuity, not exceeding 
£300 sterling per annum, with power to sue and be sued, im- 
plead and be impleaded, to make and use a Common Seal, and 
the same, to alter at their discretion, to choose Xew Church- 
Wardens and Vestrymen, as there shall be occasion, with many 
other powers and immunities, too large to be here inserted, from 
which time the members of the Corporation met together, and 
transacted all affairs, relating to the Church, under that style and 
title. And here I cannot forget mentioning the Donation of 
250 Acres of Land given to this Church, the last Will of 
Thomas Leicester, deceased, which by this Charter, we were 
enabled to receive. We had nothing happened of any great 
note to us, till the year 1711 ; and some time in April in that 
year, the Church received the gift of a large silver Beaker, with 
a cover well engraved, f being the present of the Honourable 
Colonel Robert Quarry, for the use of the Communion ; in the 
same month the minister. Church -Wardens, and Vestry, having 
received advice from the Rev. Mr. Evan Evans, Rector of 
Christ Church, in Philadelphia, and from the Vestry there, that 
their Assembly had passed an act directing affirmation, to such, 
who for conscience sake, cannot take an oath, together with a 
copy of the said act, and duly considering with themselves, the 
pernicious tendency of such proceedings to Religion in General, 
and to the best of Churches, the Church of England in particu- 
lar, they thought it their duty to give as public a testimony as 
they could, of their just detestation and abhorrence of such prin- 
ciples and practices, and in order, thereunto, at their meeting, on 
the 4th of April 1711, they caused the following Resolves to be 
entered in their minutes : 

^' ' Resolved that the said act is contrary to, and destructive of 



t This " Beaker, witli a cover, well engraved," is still (1876) in use. The let- 
ters T B E, are wrought in a monogram on them both. The beaker is engraven 
with vines and fruits, and flowers pendant Jrom ribbons, between which 'are 
the heads of cherubim. Other devices upon it, are, an eagle on a perch ; a 
peacock ; a bird u-ith fruit in its claw ; and another bird with a large serpent 
in its beak. Around, on the surface of the cover, is graven, very spiritedly, a 
hunter, with a horn at his lips and a spear in his hand, preceded by three 
hounds in pursuit of a stag. The whole is surmounted with a large and ex- 
quisite crown. 



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the Religious and Civil Liberty of Her Majesty's subjectSj and 
contrary to the Laws of Great Britain. 

Resolved that an address be drawn up to her Majesty 
against giving her Royal Assent to the said act. 

"^Ordered that the Rev. Mr. John Talbot, the Honourable 
Col. Daniel Coxe, Alexander Griffith, Esq., Her Majesty's 
Attorney-General, and Mr. Secretary Bass, do draw up the 
said address.' 

According to these Resolves, an Address was drawn, signed 
and sent home to Her Majesty, together with others, to the 
Right Rev. Henry, Lord Bishop of London, the Right Hon- 
ourable, the Earl of Clarendon, &c., which had that good effect 
at home that Her Majesiy was pleased by her order in Council 
to declare her disapprobation of that act. f The gentlemen of this 
church, were rather induced to this, in that they had just cause 
to fear that the same enemies of our Church that had, with so 
much cunning and artifice, obtained that act, in the neighbouring 
Province, would be restless in their endeavors to obtain the same 
in this Province ; and indeed the party of the same sort of men, 
having got themselves chosen Representatives of the People, in 
this Province, in conjunction with some others, who in this too 
much betrayed the interests of the Church, had at the Sessions 
of the Assembly, in this Province, in December, January, and 
February, 1710, obtained a Bill, to pass the House of Represen- 
tatives, entitled an act for ascertaining the qualifications of Jurors, 
and enabling the Quakers to serve on them, and to enjoy places 
of profit and trust, within this Province ; which was by the 
majority of the Council, rejected at the second reading ; who in 
this, as well as in many other instances, showed their zeal and 
fidelity to the Church, and its interest here in this Province. 

The Church, all this while, had laboured under the burden 
of a Debt, contracted by several of its members, towards the 
building and finishing the same, which occasioned a new sup- 
scription to be made, which, not answering to a sufficient sum 
to pay the Debt, we find the same worthy member, Col. Coxe, 
by the Donation of £25, set us clear of that incumbrance we 
were uneasy under. 



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136 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Our Church now began to have thoughts of providing some- 
thing in this Town like a Glebe, for the Rector of our Church, 
for the time being, but were almost discouraged by our paucity 
and poverty ; but Divine Providence, that never faileth those 
that confide in it, afforded us an unexpected supply, by means 
wholly unthought of by us. The Rev. Dr. Frampton,! late 
Bishop of Gloucester, having, by his last Will and Testament, left 
£100 sterling towards propagating the Gospel in America, at 
the sole appointment of the Right Rev. Henry, Lord Bishop of 
London, that Worthy and Reverend Prelate, at the instance and 
desire of Madam Catharine Bovey, of Flaxley, in the county of 
Gloucester, our worthy Benefactress, by a proper Instrument, in 
April, before he died, directed the money to be paid into her 
hands, for purchasing somewhat in America, that may be per- 
petual to the Church of St. Mary^s in Burlington ; to which she 
is pleased in her Letter to promise an addition of her own to 
complete the purchase. This sum is appropriated towards the 
payment of the purchase money, for a convenient House, 
Orchard, and about Six Acres of Land, adjoining to the Church, 
in the Town of Burlington, to the use of the Rector of the said 
Church, for the time being, for ever ; and since I am mention- 
ing these smaller Benefactors, towards the Church here, I should 
be justly charged with ingratitude and inadvertency, if I had 
not remembered that act of generosity in the Right Honorable 
the Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, who 
have not only constantly supported our Reverend Minister with 
a salary of £60 per annum, our schoolmaster Mr. Rowland Ellis 
with a Salary of £20 per annum, but have, at the expense of 
£600 sterling, purchased the House formerly built, and belong- 
ing to Mr. Tatham, with fifteen Acres of Land, and Twelve 
Acres of Meadow, for the use of a Bishop, when it shall please 
God to send one hither, and have since repaired the same, at 
very great additional expense. 

" The same General Assembly that had not sat since the 16th 
of July, 1711, after many repeated prorogations, at last met his 
Excellency, Colonel Robert Hunter, Governor of this Province, 
on the 8th of December, 1713, and continued their Session till 



J One of the original nonjurors. See foot n.ote to p., 11.. 



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the 17th of March following, in which amongst other acts, 
having passed an Act, ^ That the solemn Affirmation and Decla- 
ration of the People, called Quakers, shall be accepted and taken 
instead of an oath in the usual form, and for qualifying and 
enabling the said people to serve as Jurors, and to execute any 
office or place of trust and profit within this Province,' the Min- 
ister, Church- Wardens, and Vestry, on a due consideration of 
the danger the Church is in, by the increase of Atheism, Deism, 
Socinianism, Quakerism, and a new set of people that seem to 
be a compendium of all the ancient Heresies, known by the 
name of Free-Thinkers, and perceiving this Act of Assembly to 
give too great encouragement to these Enemies of our Church, 
thought it their duty to use their strenuous endeavours to obviate 
those apparent mischiefs ; and, therefore, in an humble manner,, 
made a new application to Her Royal Majesty, (who is not only 
Titular, but indeed the Defender of the Church) to prevent 
the giving her Royal Assent to so mischievous an Act ; and at 
the same time addressed the Honourable Society for the propa- 
gation of the Gospel, for their countenance and assistance, to all 
which they are in hopes of a gracious answer. By this Act, the 
professed enemies of the Church, being made capable to be ad- 
mitted into all offices and places of profit and trust, it is easy to 
perceive how hazardous it is for any of the friends of the Church 
to appear in its defence, or to adventure to put a stop to this 
foment of evil, by the most regular methods of addressing 
against it; since some persons, not contented with liberty of 
conscience, are so fond of licentiousness in Government, that 
they will leave no stone unturned to obtain their darling Idol. 
It was for this end that by false suggestions and calumnies, sev- 
eral of the friends and favorites of the interest of the Churchy 
Gentlemen of some of the best estates in the Province, were, to 
our very great grief, removed from being of her Majesty's Council 
and their places filled with others, that have been more favor- 
able to their designs and interests ; but it is time now to put a 
period to this Essay, it being sometimes more dangerous to assert 
Truth than to justify Error. In a word, since the first begin- 
nings of any Established Church in this Province, we may truly 
say, that the Church never was in more danger, by Enemies 



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from without^ and false Brethren, pretended Friends amongst us, 
and never had so few in public station to appear in her defence. 

I have only to add in obedience to your Excellency's com- 
mands, the methods in which, your Excellency may be most 
serviceable to the Church ; your long acquaintance with the 
interests of the Church in these parts of the world, during your 
Excellency's Administration of the Government, of the Prov- 
inces of Maryland, Virginia, &c., as it makes you a very good 
judge of all propositions, made for that end, so it might have 
been a very good reason for me to avoid any such attempt, lest I 
should too much expose my own weakness ; but since your Excel- 
lency is pleased to declare that you expect this service from me, 
I hope my obedience will apologize for my faults. I cannot but 
think the sending over a Bishop amongst us, to be of absolute 
necessity, and without which, all other attempts and methods to 
render the Church flourishing in these parts will be fruitless. 
Without government, no society or number of men can long be 
cemented, much less flourish and increase; without the censures 
of the Church are duly and impartially administered how shall 
either virtue be encouraged, or vice in all its forms detected and 
punished ? The authors or perpetrators of some crimes may be 
too great for the Civil government to take hold of in these parts 
of the world, that might soon be corrected by the Ecclesiastical 
Governor ; we need such an Ecclesiastical Governor that dare 
reprove and censure any that infringe the just Laws and Consti- 
tution of the Church ; let us have such a Bishop as St. Ambrose, 
and we shall soon have such Governors as Theodosius. 

^' I would also humbly propose that no persons be admitted 
into the Legislature or Executive Power of Government, but 
such as are in the Communion of the Church, if it be practica- 
ble ; if in some places, this is not practicable, let them be such 
at least as are under the sacred tie and obligation of an oath ; 
and, that our youth may not be tainted with erroneous principles, 
in their tender years, that no schools be permitted for the Educa- 
tion of youth, but such as are Licensed by the Governor's 
Instructions, that none be licensed but such as have a Certifi- 
cate of their Sufficiency, Ability, and Sobriety, from the Minister 
and Church-Wardens of the place, where they last resided, or if 



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no Minister thereof^ four of the soberest and most substantial 
Inhabitants. That all endeavours be used for a legal, regular, 
and honorable support of an Orthodox Clergy. 

" That no Laws be passed by the Governor and Council, that 
in any way intrench on the rights and liberties of the Church ; or 
if any such by inadvertency should be passed, that they be of no 
force, until they have received Her Majesty ^s Royal approbation ; 
that the Laws that enjoin all persons to frequent some public 
place of Worship every Lord's day, and all Law-s for suppressing 
of Immorality and profaneness be duly and impartially executed. 

" That all the Clergy be encouraged to put all the Ecclesiastic 
Laws and Canons that relate to scandalous offenders, into execu- 
tion, without any respect of persons wdiatsoever. 

All which are humbly submitted to your Excellency's judg- 
ment by him who is, 

^' Your Excellency's most affectionate and very humble servant, 

'^J. Bass." 

THE REV. EGBERT WALKER. 

On the 7th of April, 1715, the Secretary answ^ered the letter 
of Mr. Talbot, dated October 28th, 1714, and sent the answer 
by the Rev. Mr. Robert Walker," who w^as dispatched to 
Burlington, for the care of that place in Mr. Talbot's sickness, 
and as his successor in case of his removal, W'ith the provisional 
cliarge of New Bristol and Hopewell." 

'^JACOBITES IN THE JERSEYS." 

Gov. Hunter to Secretary Popple. Extract. 

^'New York April 9, 1715. 

To Wm. Popple, Esq. : 

* I have been obliged to turn out that vile fellow^ 

GrifQth, the Attorney General of the Jerseys, w^ho has been all 
along an impudent tool of Lord Clarendon's and that noisy fool 
Cox has betrayed the publick service so avowedly, that I verily 
believed he had orders from home to do so, Mr. Talbot has in- 
corporated the Jacobites in the Jerseys under the Name of a 
Church, in order to sanctifye his Sedition and Insolence to the 
Government. That stale pretence is now pretty much discussed. 



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and I am easy and shall make them so in spite of themselves. 
Cox Griffith and Bass are his main props, if the Society take 
not more care for the future, than has been taken hitherto, in the 
choice of their Missionaries, instead of establishing Religion, 
they^ll destroy all Government and good manners." * 

— Colonial History of New York, Vol. V, p. 400. 

THE CHAEGE SENT TO ME. TALBOT. 

Ihe Secretary to Mr. Talbot. 

"August 23d, 1715. 

"Reyeeend Sie: 

I wrote to you on the 7th of April, in answer to yours of 
the 28th of October last, which will come by the Rev. Mr. 
Walker, but because possibly this may come to your hand& 
before his arrival, I have enclosed a copy thereof. I am ordered 
to acquaint you that at a meeting of the Society, the first of July 
last, the Right Reverend, the Lord Bishop of London, laid 
before them an Extract of a Letter, communicated to him by 
the Lord Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, which was 
sent to them from Brigadier Hunter, Governor of New York, 
containing a complaint against you, with respect to your beha- 
viour in those parts. The Society considered the same, and 
thereupon ordered a Copy of the said Extract, should be sent 
you, that you may have an opportunity of giving your answer 
to that charge, a Copy of which Extract is likewise here in- 
closed. I have nothing more in charge to communicate to you 
at present. 

" I am, &c., 

" W. Tayloe.'' 

THE CHUECHMEN AT BUELINGTON NOT JACOBITES. 

3Ir. Bass to the Secretary. Postscript. 

"Burlingto" Oct^ 6^^ 1715. 
" R^ Rey^ & R^ HoN^^^- ^ >^ ^ 

" P. S. — I had concluded my letter when in that very instant, 
I rec*^ a copy of a clause of a letter from Brigadier Hunter dated 
9^^ April 1715, in which are these words, ^ M"" Talbot hath incor- 



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porated the Jacobites in the Jerseys under the name of a Church 
in order to Sanctify his Sedition & Insolence to the Government.' 

" I was extremely amazed, at the reading of it, being well 
assured it is entirely false. Your Society may have a history of 
our incorporation & all our proceedings from one of your 
worthy members Coll Nicholson, & I dare call God to witness 
that as far as I knew the Jerseys or the Church there the matter 
of fact is entirely false : it is true the Minister Church Wardens 
<fe Vestry of the Church at Burlington are incorporated, but it 
is as true we are no Jacobites for my part I cannot see any 
ground for so base a scandall unless it be our early & constant 
zeal for the Church against the prevailing heresy of Quakerism 
as may be seen in our addresses home. I am sure we as soon 
as we knew of his Maj^'^^ accession to the Crown, Addressed his 
Maj^'® & Congratulated his Arrival & in our families & churches 
do daily pray for his prosperity, God grant that he had none 
worse inclined amongst his most intimate friends, one of w^^ to 
my knowledge has refused the Oath's when tendered, but the 
scandall shall not pass without a publick & Satisfactory answer 
& Vindication. 

" Excuse this & believe me to be, B} Rev^ & R* Hon^'" 
" Your most humble Servant 

^M. Bass." 

ME. TALBOT A WILLIAMITE FEOM THE BEGINNING. 

Mr. Talbot to the Lord Bishop of London. 

" Burlington, Oct. 21,1715. 

My Lord : 

" We had the honor of your Lordship's letters on Saturday 
last which were delivered according to order to the Governor 
and Mr. Phillips. They both promised obedience but neither 
intended to perform. I waited on the Governor on Sunday 
morning with Mr. Trentf the chief man in the Church. So we 

fWilliam Trent, a native of Inverness, Scotland, who purchased a plantation 
of 800 acres, lying on both sides of the Assanpink, N. J., whither he removed : 
a town was laid out on his estate, which, in his honor, was called Trent's 
Town — now the capital of New Jersey. Field's Provincial Courts of New 
Jersey, pp. 105-6. 



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went to the Church warden and I demanded the Church in your 
Lordship's name and I would see who hinders me. He said 
he would not. When the Governor and he came together they 
agreed that Philips should not preach so I went to church 
peaceably and quietly and brought the people back again to the 
great joy of that city. But the Governor went away to the 
Sweedish Church which he understands as much as I do Arabic* 
I have written to the rest of the Brethren and given them a 
copy of your Lordship's order to serve till L>r. Evans comes. 
Mr. Jenney has been gone to New York 2 or S months ago. I 
am very glad to hear that Brother Yesey is arrived safe at 
Boston with the King's letter for his Salary. For the Gover- 
nor had put in such a mayor as said he should never have it. 

He told me so himself. God help us for Govern m't here 

especially your outlying members, I don't know one of them 
good. I am sorry I should be accused of sedition in my old 
age after I have travelled more than any body to keep the peace 
in church and state. My Lord, please to ask Mr. Secretary 
Hall and he will tell you that I was a Williamite from the 
beginning. Let them consult the admiralty office and they will 
find I took all the oaths that were necessary to qualify me for 
the service which I have performed faithfully abroad and at 
home. As soon as I have time I will call the Church together 
to answer for themselves and me too to the illustrious Society 
for propagating the Gospel, &c. Meanwhile the Lord rebuke 
that evil spirit of lying and slander that is gone out against the 
Church. TIere and there they spare none. I suffer like my 
Lord and Master between two at Philadelphia and New York, 
but God has been my succour and I doubt not but he will still 
deliver me from the snare of the Hunter. The people of Phila- 
delphia said if your Lordsp's letters had been directed to the 
Governor they had been stifled but I hope I shall be always 
zealous to approve myself. 

My Lord, Your Lordship's, &c., 

John Talbot." 
P. S. — Mr. Philips gives out that he will come home & 
clear himself. I wish he could, but I believe he designs for 
the West Indies where the worst priest the best Clerk." 



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A CALUMNIOUS AXD GROUNDLESS SCANDAL. 

The Church- Wa7xlens, d'C^ of BitrUngton to the Honourable- 

Society. 

'^Burlington, 28th, 1715. 
" Right Reverend and Right Honorable : 

We cannot bat adore that Divine Providence that has raised 
up so illustrious a Society, to be the propagators and defenders 
of the best of Churches, in these dark corners of the world,, 
where the members are so frequently exposed to the malice and 
rage of those who are declared enemies, both to her doctrine and 
discipline. We acknowledge with the highest degree of gratitude, 
the sensible effects of your favour and protection, which we have' 
already received, and hope we shall, by the grace of God, be 
enabled so to carry ourselves, in this troublesome age,, that no- 
calumnies of our enemies, may anyways lessen your opinion of 
us ; we have had the happiness, at your expense, of being 
educated under the care of a truly Pious and Apostolic Person, 
the Reverend Mr. Talbot, the fervour and excellencies of whose 
discourses, and the piety of whose life are the best recommenda- 
tions of the religion he professes, in now better than this 12: 
years, that he hath had not only the care of us, but on all 
emergent occasions, that of all the neighbouring Churches, hath 
lain on him, and in all that time, we are bound to assert, that 
we never heard either in his public discourses or private conver- 
sation, anything that might tend towards encouraging sedition,, 
or anyways insolencing the government ; it was therefore with 
the greatest surprise imaginable, that we read the following 
clause of a letter from Brigadier Hunter to the Board of Trade 
and Plantation, dated the 9th of April, 1715, by the Right 
Reverend, the Bishop of London, communicated to your Rev- 
erend and Honourable Society, in these words, ' Mr. Talbot has 
incorporated the Jacobites in the Jerseys, under the name of 
a Church, in order to sanctify his sedition and insolence to the- 
government ; if the Society take not more care for the future, 
than has been taken hitherto, in the choice of their Missionaries,, 
instead of Establishing religion, they will destroy all govern- 



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ment and good manners.' What could induce this gentleman to 
endeavour to fix so barbarous, so calumnious, so very false, and 
groundless a scandal, is to us altogether unaccountable, to which 
we think the shortest answer that can be given, is that of Nehe- 
miah to Sanballat, ^ there are no such things done as thousayest, 
but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.' 

The Church at Burlington, Right Reverend and Right 
Honourable, is the only Church that we know of, incorporated 
in the Jerseys, which w^as begun, by that steady protector of 
our Churches here, the Earl of Clarendon, wdien he was her late 
Majesty's Governor of this province, and finished under the 
administration of Colonel Richard Ingoldsby, and we are there- 
fore, more particularly concerned, to answer to this charge. Our 
Minister, the Reverend Mr. Talbot, having undertaken his own 
defence against what the Governor hath charged him with, we 
shall say no more, than what we have said, on this account." 

MR. TALBOT's answer TO THE SOCIETY. 

Mr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

"Burlington, November 1st, 171o. 

"Sir: 

" First I am bound to render thanks to the Right Rev. and 
Right Honourable Society, for sending honest Mr. Walker, to 
my assistance ; I hope he will answer the good character given 
of him on all hands; I have offered him my house at Burling- 
ton, and all my interest is at his service. 

''Next, I am obliged to the Society, for giving me leave to 
answer for myself, touching the reflections cast upon me by 
Brigadier Hunter. To be an accuser is bad, to be a false 
accuser is worse, but a false accuser of the brethren is literally a 
Devil ; I make no difference, for I call God to witness, I know 
no soul, in the Church of Burlington, nor in any other Church 
I have planted, but is well affected to the Protestant Church of 
England and present Government in the house of Hanover : 
therefore he that accused us all for Jacobites, has the greater sin. 
I can compare it to nothing more or less, than Doeg, the Edo- 
mite, who stabbed the Priests' characters, and then cut all their 



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throats ; or Hanian, the Agagite, who slandered all the Jews as 
Jacobites who did not observe the King's Laws ; so they were 
appointed as sheep to the slaughter ; but God delivered them, and 
so, I hope he will do iis, from the hand of the Enemy. The 
Honourable Colonel Bass, our Chief-Church-Warden, as diligent 
and faithful a servant of the Church and Crown as any, has 
been belied out of his Secretary's Office, and fined, and confined 
in the Common Gaol, f for nothing but defending the Royal Law 
of King George, against an idol of the heathenish Quakers. 
Mr. Alexander Griffiths died heart-broken, being falsely accused 
and abused as a disaffected person to the Government ; he died 
at Amboy ; poor Mr. Ellis, the school-master, is very much dis- 
couraged in his business by a Quaker school-master being set up, 
in opposition to his license ; he has made his complaints oft, not 
without cause, but without eff'ect ; he is a very sober, honest 
young gentleman, and deserves better encouragement. I wish 
the Society would take some better care of Burlington House ; 
as for Governour Hunter, he does not come here once in three 
years, and as soon as he gets his money, spends it all at New 
York ; so that we have only the burden, not the benefit, of 
Government; therefore we have the greater need of a Chorepis- 
copus, a Rural Bishop or Suffragan, to impart some spiritual 
Gift, without which, there never was, or can be any being, or 
well-being of a Church. This is the burden of all our lamen- 
tations, and so it will be, till it is answered ; the sooner the 
better, Citm bono cleo. So desiring prayers of the sacred Society, 
I remain, 

" Your humble servant, 

" John Talbot." 



t Jeremiah Bass was Clerk of the Council, Secretary of the Province, and 
Prothonotary of the Supreme Court. Among others who were prosecuted, he 
was indicted for altering the rules of the Court, and taking liberties with the 
book of Freeholders, but acquitted. Field's Provincial Courts of New 
Jersey, pp. 83, 84. 

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" THESE TWENTY YEARS, CALLIXa TILL OUR HEARTS ACHE." 

3fr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

Burlington, 1716. 

^^Sir: 

"I have not had the favour of a letter, though I have sent 
several since Mr. Walker arrived. I have put him into the 
Church at Burlington, and into a house, which out of my pov- 
erty, I have prepared for the service of the Church, for ever, 
and for the use of the missionaries, for the time being, from the 
Honourable Society, if I die in the service, and be not forced to 
sell it again for pure necessaries. 

" I hear that one of my bills was ordered to lie by for a half 
year. I wish I had known the reason of it, that I might have 
answered by the bearer, the Honourable Colonel Coxe, who 
comes home with another gentleman of the Yestry of the 
Church at Burlington, to clear that Church from the slanders 
that Colonel Hunter has raised against us, only because we 
were Christians, and could not serve God and Mammon, Christ 
and Belial, &c. 

I don't know any thing that I have done, contrary to my 
duty, either in Church or State ; but if it be resolved that no 
Englishman shall be in Mission or Commission, apud AmerU 
canos, I don't know what we have done, that we should all 
give place to Scotch-Irish ; but I am content to suffer with 
Good Company, ferre quam sortem patiuntur omnes, nemo recuset- 
I suffer all things for the elect's sake, the poor church of God, 
here, in the Wilderness. There is none to guide her, among all 
the sons that she has brought forth, nor is there any that takes 
her by the hand of all the sons that she has brought up. When 
the Apostles heard that Samaria had received the word of God, 
immediately they sent out two of the chief, Peter and John, to 
lay their hand? on them, and pray that they might receive the 
Holy Ghost ; they did not stay for a secular design of salary; 
and when the Apostles heard that the word of God was preached 
at Antioch, presently they sent out Paul and Barnabas, that 
they should go as far as Antioch, to confirm the Disciples, and 
so the Churches were established in the faith, and increased in 



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mi mber daily ; aud when Paul did but dream that a man of 
Macedonia called him, he set sail all so fast, and went over him- 
self to help them ; but we have been here these twenty years, 
calling till our hearts ache, aud ye own ^tis the call and the 
cause of God, and yet ye have not heard, or have not answered, 
and it is all one. 

I must say this, if the Society don't do more in a short time, 
than they have, in a long, they will, I fear, lose their honour 
and character too ; I don't pretend to prophesy, but you know 
how they said the kingdom of God shall be taken from them, 
and given to a nation that will bring forth the fruits of it. God 
give us all the grace to do the things that belong to our peace, 
so God bless you all. 

" And yours, 

JoHX Talbot." 
You may imagine what you please of the Irish missionaries, 
but I am sure we have lost Mr. Brook and Thorouo^ho;ood 
Moore, two English-men, that were worth all the Teagues that 
ever came over." 

'^QUID AGITUE IX AMEEICA." 

Mr. Ellis to the Secretary. 

'^Burlington July 9^^ 1716. 

''Sir: 

" The worthy bearer hereof Dan^' Coxe Escf one of the best 
members & benefactors to St. Mary's Church at Burlington 
(who in compassion to a poor distressed & almost ruin'd prov- 
ince, hazards his life & fortune, to serve aud seek I hope from 
a Merciful Prince & a Gracious King, some speedy relief of the 
deplorable circumstances & unparalleld Calamities of his Maj"^^ 
Collony of west Jersey, now under the heavy lash & tyranical 
administration of Coll Pobert Hunter & amongst other enormi- 
ties,) will shew & acquaint you w^^ a perfect account of the dayly 
discouragements I meet w^*" in relation to my School, as also of 
the many losses <& damages that I have & do still sustain by the 
unreasonable allowance given to a Quaker to usurpe over me, 
& take my bread out of my mouth, which is intolerable, when 



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at the same time, one can hardly subsist in, & by the whole 
town, these things are enough to cliscoarage any man, neverthe- 
less I still hope for the better, & don't doubt but that the hon^^®" 
Society upon whose endeavours I beseech God to pour down the 
abundance of his spirit & wisdom, & grant me patience to bear 
these hardships with resignation & a fervent zeal towards Gods- 
most holy Religion, will upon this hon^^^ Gentlemans applica- 
tion weigh my circumstances, and consider my abuses, & I 
humbly desire the favour of you, to be as serviceable to him as 
you can, be pleased to acquaint the hon^^"" Society that my School 
is indiferent, to thrive fast is not to be expected ; as long as 
Quakerism is countenanced & prefered by men in high places- 
before Christianity, & if there be not a speedy remedy of this, 
the propagation of the Gospel will be but of little effect when 
Xtian institution is wholely rejected & Quakerism set on foot,, 
by which means the fundamental rules of Gods revealed religion 
& Gospel precepts tho never so early imbib'd & carefully 
instilled will by the depravity of nature & corruption of Youth 
with such tenets & the dictates of Stupidity & ignorance soon 
perish and decay, I could say more. Si memorem mora est, but 
this shall suffice for the present, that your R* Rev* & R* hon^^® 
Society may understand quid agitur in America non consulitur 
de religione but of faction &c w*^^ are very unhappy for this 
Country being so young & newly settled, & consequently very 
pernitious to Piety & Learning. 

''To say no more its bad enough, God in his owne due time 
send us relief, be pleased to recommend my duty to the hon^^^ 
Society and accept of the hearty love & sincere regard of^Sir 
''Your obliged Servant, 

"Rowland Ellis.'' 

jekemiah bass, a eepresentatiye. 

In 1716, Mr. Bass, was a member, for the county of Cape 
May, of the "House of Representatives of His Majestys Province 
of New- Jersey." 

On the 30th of November, he was one of a committee to pre- 
pare an " Address " to the Governor ; and on the same day, by 



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order of the House, he drew up ^' a Bill for preventing Money 
from passing at Xine Shillings and 2*^ per OvMce^ 

On the 4th of December, he was one of the committee, to 
whom a Bill was referred, with reference to the Conveniency 
of the Eastern Division of the Province relating to records where 
Titles of Land are concerned.'' 

On the oth, he was Chairman of the committee to wait upon 
the Governor to know His Excellencys pleasure with reference 
to the Address of the House." 

On the 14th, he " made a Motion, That a Bill be brought in 
to lay an Excise on all strong Liquors Retailed in this Prov- 
ince '' — and was made Chairman of the committee to bring in 
such a Bill. 

On the 18th, he was on a committee to joyn a Committee of 
Council to meet from Day to Day till they have gone through " 
the Accounts of the Treasurer ; and, on the same day, he brought 
in "a Bill, entituled, An Act for laying an Excise on all Strong 
Liquors Eetailed in this Colony.'' 

On the 20th, it was " ordered, that M'' Bass bring in a Bill 
for Repealing the Tenth Clause of an Act, entituled. An Act for 
shortening Law Suits, and Regulating the Practice of the Law, 
and for obliging Plaintiffs that are Xon-Residents, to give better 
security for paying Costs of Suit." 

On the 22d, his Bill, on Excise on Strong Liquors," was 
read the third time, and passed; and he was appointed to carry 
it to the Council for their Concurrence. 

On the 8th of January, he was Chairman of a committee, to 
prepare " a Bill for the Support of his Majestys Government of 
Kew Jersey." And on the loth of the same month, he made a 
speech, which was incorporated, in full, in the Jouexal of the 
Votes of the House," as follows^ 

THE SPEECH OF Mli. BASS. 

SpeaJ:er, 

^' We have yesterday been upon a very great Work, the en- 
Cjuiring into the Debts of the Province, and stating the Treas- 
urers Accounts, in which I think, and so doth the Majority of 
the House, (as far as we have gone) we have done that Officer 



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Justice, and tho' some of the Members have differed in their 
Opinion, yet I doubt not but that Gentleman (and I'm very 
sure it is easy for him to do it) will before the Conclusion of 
this Session, place those disputed Articles in so clear a light, by 
producing the proper Vouchers, that the most scrupulous 
amongst us may acquiesce in the Report of the Committee of 
the whole House. 

" These Accounts, Mr. Speaker, have opened to us a new scene 
of Affairs ; we see how much the Province is indebted for 
Arrearages of Taxes, and that if those arrearages had been duly 
paid, the Bills of Credit already issued for the emergent occa- 
sions of the Province would have been sunk, and some Money 
left in the Treasury to have been applyed to such uses as this 
Assembly should think expedient. But it is our Misfortune, 
that the case is otherwise, we are much indebted. Seventeen Hun- 
dred and odd Pounds in Bills of Credit are yet standing out, 
and the Treasury is quite empty, shall we, M"" Speaker, venture 
to enquire into this Evil, and propose some means for the 
Removal of it? It is certain this is not lessened but increased 
by the deadness of Trade, the Poverty of the Province, the 
Cheapness of all Commodities that this Country producetb. 
But those things that seem more particularly to have plunged 
us into this Misfortune were two very Expensive and Fruitless 
Expeditions to Canada, and our entestine Discords and Divi- 
sions, which have much obstructed the payment of the publick 
Taxes. The negligence of the Officers in doing their Duties, 
and the Scarcity of Moneys. 

"For first, God be Thanked, we are not very likely to be 
exposed to any more Expences of that ; That Peace and Serenity 
that the Land of our Nativity enjoys under the auspicious Reign 
of his present Majesty, and the influence his Majesty has on the 
X.^m.YS o^ Europe, &c. will prevent our sometimes Troublesome 
Neighbours the French or the Indians under their direction^ 
from giving us any Disturbance there. 

" As to the second, I could be glad to say, I could see an end 
of them, but hence like Lacrymce here is the Source and Rise of 
all our Misfortunes, our Divisions, Heats, Discords and Ani- 
mosities centre. AYe are using one another as the Heathens did 



IN BURLINGTON. 151 

the Primitive Christians, dressing each other up in the Skins of 
Wolves and Bears, and then beating them as such. 

" Would to God, Mr. Speaker, we could each of us learn to 
look upon another to be better than himself ; to let that Charity? 
which is the Golden Band that cements Heaven and Earth 
together, (and without which the most splendid Gifts, natural or 
Acquired Endowments, are but as the sounding Brass or Tink- 
ling Cimbal) govern both our Lives and xlctions. 

Mr. Speaker, It is the great Fault of those Gentlemen that 
in this Province have distinguished themselves to be of a Party, 
that they are generally more willing to believe others to be in 
the wrong than in the Right, and unwilling to have our Preju- 
dices removed. I have observed in Persons that have been of 
two opposing Parties, to have had something on each side excel- 
lently good, and something exorbitantly evil, although perhaps 
in unequal degrees, both mutually set, after an immoveable 
manner, before their Eyes, their own good, and the Evil of the 
other Party. And thus they blind their Minds to all sence or 
belief of good in any that oppose them ; Till this is spent, is 
abated, nay, rooted out of our hearts, there can be no expecta- 
tion of a Blessing to attend our Endeavours. 

"We Complain, Mr. Speaker, of bad Crops, Blasts, Milldews, 
and sometimes of Epidemical Distempers Raging amongst us. 
It is no wonder if our common Parent sends these Scourges, 
that by these Means he might teach us to love one another. Let 
us then take that advice which his Excellency once gave the 
Representative Body of this Province ; Let us leave Disputes, <i'c> 
to the Laivs, and Injuries to the Avenger of them : Let each one 
iveed the Rancour of his own heart, &c. Let each of us look upon 
Parties and Divisions as a common Enemy, a common Evil? 
and use our utmost Endeavours to quench that fire that hath 
hitherto so Raged in this Province, that it hath more or less 
affected all Persons, all Relations, our Bodies, our Reputations, 
and our Estates. Let us unite in Love, and then how inex- 
pressibly beautiful would such a Union be ! How would it 
strengthen our Interests, advance our Estates, restore our de- 
cayed Credit ; and make us a truly happy Province." * * 
— Votes and State Papers, Vol. 1. pp. 17, 18. 



152 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



DISAFFECTIOX TO THE GOA^EENMEXT. 

The Secretary to Mr. Talbot. 

^Mugust 2^ 1717. 

"Rev^Sir, 

The Society have rec'ed a letter from Coll Gooking, Lieii^ 
Gov^ of Pennsylvania, wherein he charges yon with disalFection 
to the Governm* and refusing the Oaths of Allegiance to His 
Majesty King George, that you may be able to form an exact 
Judgm* of the Charge I have given you the Governor's very 
words in his Letter inclosed. The Society expect you should 
forthwith give your answer thereto, and if you have not already 
taken the Oaths to his majesty King George that you do without 
delay, by the first convenience transmit to the Society an authen- 
tic Certificate of your having so done." ^ 

— Colonial History of New Yorl:, Vol. V, 

THE STATE OF THE SCHOOL. 

3Ir. Ellis to the Secretary. Extract. 

Burlington Aug' 29 1717. 

" Honored Sir 

In regard to your command and pursuant to the Hon- 
orable Society's Directions I have herein sent to their perusal 
the state of my school at present; the children of Christian 

Parents are in number '25 

Quakers , :^\\l6 

in all '35 



letters intercepted. 
Eev'^' M''' Robert Walker to the Secretary. Extract. 

Burlington Sept'-' 10'^ 1717. 

" Worthy Sir, 

^^I am glad to find the Society is sensible our Letters are in- 
tercepted in answer to both of yours you honored me with one 
in June and the other in July 1716, I assure you there is no 
caution I can think of to prevent miscarriage, or being stopt, the 
Postmaster of Burlington who died about 4 months ago stopt 



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153 



four which I never could get from him, two of which was seen 
by several of our Townspeople, & the Post himself declared he 
delivered them into the post-masters Plands ; and whilst he was 
insisting for payments for the other two which I declared to 
Him I never received he swore to the charge of them by his 
book and by this blunder of his I discovered his Justice who 
was no less a man than one of his Majestys Council to Governor 
Hunter: and his Excellency is so jealous of his own mismanage- 
ment, that it is more than probable he has his Agents at the 
Ports about to catch up our Letters,'' * 

LANDS BELONGING TO THE BISHOP's HOUSE." 

M7\ Talbot to the Secretary. Extract. 

'^Burlington, September ITth, 1717. 

Sir : 

''I received an Order from the Society, to look after some 
Lands belonging to the House at Burlington, together with Mr. 
Vesey, but he is not yet come this way, so I shall say nothing 
to that point at present, because it is but an acre or two, and 
that is safe enough. 

The Quakers would have got that, as they have all the rest 
of the meadow Lands belonging to the Bishop's House, and 
divided them amongst themselves." * 

SUPPLYING CHRIST CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA. 

April 3d, 1718, Sir William Keith, Governor of Pennsyl- 
vania, chairman of the vestry of Christ Church, Philadelphia, 

acquainted the vestry that the Pev. Mr. Talbot, of Burlington, 
Mr. Humphreys, of Chester, Mr. Poss, of New Castle, and Mr. 
Sandell, of Wickacoa, had been invited by him, and most of 
them were now in town, in order to wait on this vestry and 
receive their proposals for supplying the vacancy of this Church, 
until the Bishop of London's pleasure was known. 

The vestry thereupon recommended it to the Governor to 
concert with the above-named clergymen how they might supply 
this vacancy with conveniency to themselves, and the least pre- 
judice to their respective cures. 



154 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



All arrangement was made with these gentlemen for supply- 
ing the Church for several months, and a liberal compensation 
was voted them by the vestry ; but they declined ^receiving any 
pecuniary reward ' for their services." Dorr's History of Christ 
Churchj Philadelphia, pp. 44-5. 

CAXNOT DESERT THE POOR FLOCK.'' 

Mr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

^'Burlington, Mav 3d, 1718. 

Sir : 

" I used to write to you now and then, though I seldom have 
the favour of an answer, or not to the point. All your mission- 
aries hereabouts, are going to Maryland, for the sake of them- 
selves, their wives and children ; for my part, I cannot desert 
the poor flock, that I have gathered, nor will I, if I have neither 
Money, Credit, nor Tobacco. But if I had known as much as 
I do now, that the Society were not able, for their parts, to send 
Bishop, Priest, nor Deacon, no Lecturer nor catechist, no hinter, 
nor holder-forth, I would never have put the good People in 
these parts to the charge and trouble of building Churches ; 
(nay, now they must be stalls, or stables for Quakers horses, 
when they come to market or meeting) as I said before, but some 
people will not believe till 'tis too late. Dr. Evans himself is 
gone to Maryland, for he says nobody will serve the Church for 
nought, as I do ; for my part, I cannot blame the People in 
these parts, for they do what they are able, and no body can de- 
sire more, rich or poor, for those that do them any good. My 
Duty to the Honourable Society. 

I am your most humble servant, 

JoHX Talbot.'' 

" THE HUMBLE PETITION OF MANY OF THE FAITHFUL IN 
NORTH AMERICA." 

June 2d, 1718. " A representation to the Archbishops and 
Bishops of the Church of England was presented to the Vestry 
of Christ Church, Philadelphia, by the Rev. Dr. Evans, and the 
Rev. Mr. John Talbot," of Burlington, N. J., which was ready 
and it was thereupon ordered that the Churchwardens sign the 



IN BUKLIXGTON. 



155 



said address in the name and by order of the vestry.'^ The 
address is as follows : 

To the Most Eeverend Fathers in God, the Archbishops, 
and the Right Reverend the Bishops of the Chnrch of England : 
The Representation and humble Petition of many of the faith- 
ful in the communion of the Church of England in North 
America, most humbly showeth : 

^' That whereas the British Collonies and Settlements in 
America, have now for many years been blessed with the pure 
and primitive doctrine and w^orship of our Mother the Church 
of England of which you are happy at this day in being great 
ornaments and prime rulers 

'^And whereas for want of Episcopacy's being established 
amongst us, and that there has never been any Bishop sent to 
visit us, our churches remain unconsecrated, our children are 
grown up and cannot be confirmed, their sureties are under 
solemn obligations, but cannot be absolved & our Clergy some- 
times under Doubts and cannot be resolved 

" But whereas more especially for the want of that sacred 
power which is inherent to your apostolate the Vacancies which 
daily happen in our Ministry cannot be supplied, for a con- 
siderable time from England, whereby many congregations are 
not only become desolate, and the light of the Gospel therein 
extinguished but great encouragement is hereby given to secta- 
ries of all sorts which abound and increase amongst us and some 
of them pretending to what they call the power of ordination 
the Country is filled with fanatick teachers, debauching the 
good inclinations of many poor souls who are left destitute of 
any instruction or ministry. May it therefore please your 
Lordships in your great pity and regard for the government of 
the Church by Bishops, to think of some means whereby these 
our sorrowful complaints & most grievous misfortunes may be 
heard and redressed, and that Almighty God may of his infinite 
mercy, inspire your thoughts and assist your pious endeavors to 
accomplish this evidently necessary work is the most earnest 
and daily prayer of may it please your Lordships 

" Your Lordships most humble petitioners & most obedient 
sons and servants. 



156 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



111 the name and by the order of the Vestry of Christ 
Churcli at Philadelphia the second of June 1718. 
^' James Tutthill 1 Church Je. Bass Atty. Gen. 

" Charles Read j Wardens of the Jerseys'^ 

^* and six others. 

In the name & by the order of the Vestry of St Mary's 
Church at Burlington the ninth of June 1718. 
Jxo Talbot, Rector 
^' J so Wheeler "] Church 
^' Abr. Hettlixgs / Wardens 
" and many others from all parts of America." 



Jlr, Ellis to the Secretary. Extract. 

"Burlington in Xew Jersey 
Julv 10th 1718 

Sir : 

" My School is indiiferent well having of Christian Parents 
Children 20, of Quakers 12, of others 5. I know not what to 
term them besides sectaries having no knowledge, and yet 
obstinate . * * 



further ixformatiox from the parish register, the 
first church libraries. 

Up to the year 1719, the pages of the Parish Register are 
filled, almost exclusively, with the entries of baptisms. Xo 
burials are recorded ; and only three marriages, one of which is 
that of '^Rowland Ellis and Sarah Allison, April 17, 1715.'' 

On the first fly-leaf, however, we find the little item, " Lent 
to J. H. 1 piece of 8. 4 bits & 1 Eng. shill." 

And, on the last four leaves, we have a list of books, which 
Michael Piper,'^ — the writing is not Mr. Talbot's — assisted Mr. 
Talbot in revising, on the first day of the new year, O. S. 

t At a Vestry meeting of Christ Church, Philadelphia, held June 23d, 1718, 
it was ''Eesolved, That if it should happen that the clergymen who are to serve 
the Church during this vacancy be sick, or should not come, that Mr, Piper, 
the school master, read the prayers in the Church," Dorr's History, p. -17. 



IN BURLIXGTOX. 



157 



A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS BELOXGIXG TO BUELIXGTOX LIBRARY REVISED 
BY 3IR. JOHX TALBOT INCUMBENT ct MICH: PIPER YE 

25th day of march 1719. 



FOL: 



1 D. Jolianne Avenario Egrano 

Lexicon Hebraicnm. 

2 Scapulae Lexicon. 

3 Eusebii Ecclesiast Histor. 

4 Gregorii Sayr Casus Conscient. 

5 ZSTewman's Concordance. 

6 Scti Cypriani Opera. 



7 Petri Eavanelli Bibliotheca. 

8 Father Paul's History of Coun- 

cil of Trent. 

9 Pierceson on the Creed. 

10 Dr. Bray's Lectures. 

11 Cowleii Opera. 

12 Hooker's Ecclesiast Politv. 



QUA] 

1 Eiveli Controversiae. 

2 Patrick upon Genesis, 

3 Pindari Tragaed — 2 vol. 

4 Stillingfieet's L'nreasonables of 

Seperation. 

5 Bythneri Lyra Prophetica. 

6 Skinner's Opticks. ! 

7 Patrick on ve Chronicles, Ezra, 

&c. 

8 Boyl's Lectures. . 

9 Dailei Latinorum Cultus — 2 vol. | 

10 Cainet Dominical. I 

11 Littleton's Dictionary. 

12 Origine Sacra by Stillingfleet. 

13 Cluverii Geographia. 

14 Two Manuscripts. 

15 Discipuli Sermones Quadragesi- 

males. 

16 Lubini Comment in Juvenal. 

17 Higgins Sermon. 

18 Senecae Tragaed. i 

19 Common place Book Manuscr. 

20 Calvin's Listitutions. 

21 Quintilian. 

22 Juvenal cum Xotis Variorum. I 



23 One Manuscript. 

24 Stierii Logica. 

25 Manuscript Greek. 

26 Young's Sermons — 2 vol. 

27 Virgil in L'sum Delpliini. 

28 Gassendi Astronomia. 

29 Sherrock's Jus Naturae. 

30 Horatius in Usum Delphini. 

31 Plinii Epistolae. 

32 Senecae Controversiar. 

33 Bp : Hall's Episcopacv bv Divine 

Eight. 

34 Seaman's Calendar. 

35 E : Lewis de Granada Memorial 

of a Xtian Life. 

36 Bp : Symon's Paraphrase on ye 

Psalms. 

37 Bernhardi Vareni Geographia. 

38 Walker's Particles. 

39 Bragg's Discourses. 

40 Eenati Des Cartes Philosophia. 

41 Eoheult Physicks. 

42 "Westminster Grammar. 

43 Moor's Discourses on Several 

texts. 



quarto, 0( 

44 Senecae Philosophia. ; 

45 Plauti Comaedae — 2 vol. 

46 StapletoniPromptuarium — 2 vol. 

47 Sherlock of Providence. 

48 Matthew Kellison Survey of Ke- 

ligion. 

49 Art of Speaking. 

50 Quintiliani Institutiones. 

51 Mahomet's Alcoran. 

52 Defence of Catholick Faith. i 

53 Pererii Comment on Daniel. ' 

54 George Where's Method of His- j 

tory. I 

55 Musae Oxonienses. 

56 Natalis Comes. I 

57 Eobinson's Kev to ve Hebrew 

Bible. 



AVO, &C. 

58 Bercheli Catechismus. 

59 B. Francis de Sales Love of God. 

60 Buxtorfs' Lexicon. 

61 Ciceronis Apothegmata, 

62 Euclid's Elements. 

63 Fullies Epistles. 

64 Cook's Guide to Blessedness. 

65 Leusden's Compendium. 

66 Hogg's Poems. 

67 Janua Linguarum. 

68 Norris his Discourses. 

69 Epitome Grammaticae Hebraae- 

Buxtorfi. 

70 Eoss's Elorilegium. 

71 Patrick's Paraphrase on Job.. 

72 Sophoclis Tragaediae. 

73 Homer's Iliads. 



158 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



74 Moor's Dialogue?. 

75 Guilliandi Collatia in Epistolas 

Pauli. 

76 Dr. Hammonds' Fundamentals. 

77 Suiceri Pliysica. 

78 Homer's Iliads. 

79 Irenicum Magnum. 

80 Fabriani Stradae prolusiones 

Academicae. 

81 Buxtorfi Epitome Grammat He- 

braeae. 

82 Scripta publiae proposita. 

83 Didaci Stellae de modo Concion- 

andi. 

84 Epitome Erasmi Adagiorum. 

85 Epictoli Enchiridion. 

86 Manuscript. 

87 Pagor's Lexicon — 2 vol. 

88 Magiri Philosophia. ! 

89 Stenneti Hebraea Grammatica. | 
DO Statii Poemata. i 

91 Gradus ad Parnassnm. | 

92 Ovidii Metamorphosis Moriett. j 

2 vol. I 

93 Baronii Metaphysica. j 
"94 Chamberlain's Present State of j 

England. , 

95 Catecliism Council of Trent. ! 

96 Anthologia. 

97 Manuscript. 

98 L'Art de se Connoitre. _ - 

99 Isocratis Orationes. 

100 Kobinson's Phrases, 

101 History of Polindo &c. 

102 Poetae Minores. 

103 Posselii Colloquia. | 

104 Eckii Homiliae. 

105 Heckermanni Logica. 

106 Eustachii Philosophia. 

107 Vossii Epigrammata. 

108 Facquets' Arithmetick. 

109 Sebastian! Dictionarium He- 

braicuni. 

110 Laurentius Valla. 

111 J^sopi Fabulae, Gr. 

112 Decretalia Romana. 

113 Pia hilaria. 

114 G. P. Safeguard from Ship wrack. 

115 Sanderson's Prelections. 

116 Hebrew Psalter. 

117 Fereneo Minett. 

118 Erasmi Copia Verbor. 

119 Brig's Opticks. 

120 Mr. Juc. Fiat Lux. 

121 Isocratis Orationes Duae. 

122 Horace. Bond. 

123 Owen's Concordance. 

1 24 Pythagoras his Golden Verses. 

125 History of Elias Neau. 



126 Ovid de Arte amandi. 

127 Lucian's Dialogues. 

128 Needham's Collections. 

129 J^sop's Fables. 

130 Catechism Gr & Lat. 

131 French new Testament. 

132 Virgil, 

133 Greek Grammar, 

134 Barclaii Argenis. 

135 Farmer's Catechism. 

136 Walker's Logick. 

137 Cornelius Nepos. 

138 Tullii de Officiis. 

139 Vossii Rhetorica. 

140 Parker's Apology for Des Cartes. 

141 Textor's Epistles. 

142 Oliani historia. 

143 Wendelini Theologia. 

144 Horace, Juvenal & Perseus. 

145 Greek Grammar. 

146 Caroni Apostolatus. 

147 Lucius Florus. 

148 Phitarchus de Educandis Liberis. 

149 The Rehearsal transpos'd. 

150 Burgerdicii Logica, 

151 Barkei Orationes. 

152 Aplithonii Progymnasmata. 

153 Higlen's History. 

154 Radan Orator Extemporarius. 

155 Vigerii Idiomata. 

156 Greek Testament. 

157 Cornelius Nepos. 

158 Demosthenis Orationes. 

159 Gerardi Meditationes. 

160 Vindiciae pro Nicolao Smitlieo. 

161 The right Way to health & long 

Life._ 

162 Pontani Aureum Diurnale. 

163 Thomas a Kempis. 

164 Formulae Oratoriae. 

165 Moriae Encomium. 2 vol. 

166 Busquebius de Moribus Tur- 

carum. 

167 Auli Gellii Noctes Atticae. 

168 Summae Conciliorum. 

169 Agrippae Cornelii de vanitate. 

170 Treleatis Loci Communes. 

171 Hodder's Arithmetick. 

172 Farnabie's Rhetorick. 

173 MartiaFs Epigrams. 

174 Conciones et Orationes ex His- 

toricis, &c. 

175 Lett concerning Toleration. 

176 Nonnus his Poems. 

177 Erasmi Select. Colloquia. 

178 Barclai Euphormion. 

179 Histoi'ia Anabaptistica. 

180 Mori Enchiridion Ethicum. 

181 Introduction a la vie Devote. 



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159 



182 Valerius Maximus. 

183 Ambrosius de Officiis. 

184 Corvini Jusisprudentiae. 

185 Sleidan. 

186 A Treatys of the blessed Sac- 

rament. 

187 Oweni Epigrammata. 

188 GobianusdeMorum Simplicitate. 

189 Martialis Epigrammata. 



190 Caesaris Commentaria. 

191 Novum Testamentum. 

192 Paraphrasis Psalmorum. 

193 Spirituale Directoire. 

194 Les Sages Entretiens. 

195 Small hebrew Book. 

196 Drexelius Nuntius mortis. 

197 Small french Book. 



A CATALOGUE OF BOOKS BELONGING TO MR. JOHN TALBOT YE 25tH OF 

MARCH 1719. 



FOLIO. 



Erasmus his Comment on New 
Testament. 

Dr. Hammond's Works. 

Dr. Taylor's Ductor Dubitan- 
tium. 

Roman um Missale. 

Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermons. 

Dr. Andrews upon ye ten Com- 
mandments. 



7 Davenant Expositio in Colos- 

sens. 

8 Trap's Exposition in Sacr. Script. 

4 vol. 

9 Hall's Comment in 2d Epist. 

Timoth. 
10 Sti. Ausustini de Civit. Dei. 



QUARTO, &c. 



1 Wall'shystory of Infant Baptism. | 

2 French Dictionary. 

3 Mantuan upon Jude. : 

4 Sherlock's Answer to ye Qua- { 

kers Questions. j 

5 Patrick on Genesis. | 
Sherlock's Rich'd. Sermons. 2 vol. ! 

7 Dr. Hix's Collection of Tracts. j 

8 The hystory of Man. 

9 Short Discourse of Comon ; 

Prayer. Dr. Cumber. 

10 Case of ye Regale & Pontificat. 

11 Practical Believer. 

12 Scots Xtian life. 

13 Turner's Wisdom of God. 

14 Life of Xt, & ye Apostles by 

Dupin. 

15 Shepherd of Israel. 

16 Reeve's Apologies. 

17 Josephus abridg'd — 2 vol. 

IS Athenian Oracles — 4 vol. | 

19 Gregory's Posthumus Works — 2 ^ 

vol. 

20 Cumber of Orders. 

21 Carthwright on ye 15 Psalm. j 

22 HuetiusDemostratio Evangelica. ; 

2 voL 

23 Beveridge's Sermons. 

24 Delinge's Conciones. 

25 Bennett's Paraphes of Comon 

Prayer. j 
2G Witty against Deism. 



27 Cliff's exposition of Church 

Catech.— 2 vol. 

28 Ware's Method of hystory. 

29 Gregorie's Divine Tracts. 

30 Confutation of Popery by Th : 

Bennet. 

31 Origen against Celsus. 

32 Burnet's Pastoral Care. 

33 Richlieu Treatise of Perfection. 

34 Dumonlin's peace of ye Soul. 

35 Hooker's Abridgment. 

36 Sanderson de Jaramenti Obliga- 

tione. 

37 Greek Testament. 

38 Sandersoni Pliysica. 

39 Senecae Tragediae. 

40 Country Parson, herbert. 

41 Baxter against Infidelity. 

42 Smith's Treatise of Sacrament. 

43 Barlo's Remains, 

44 Greek Psalter. 

45 Card. Bonas Guide to heaven. 

46 Leyburn's Matliematicks. 

47 Grescomb on ye Sabbath. 

48 Pascal's Thoughts. 

49 Mon's Spry's falsity of [illegible 

in MS.] baptism. 

50 Ignatii Epistolae, &c. 

51 Salust. 

52 Self Examination. 

53 Savenier's Mass book. 

54 Mantuan on James. 

55 Animadversion upon a paper. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



A COLLECTIOX OF QUAKER S BOOKS XEW & OLD BELONGING TO 3IR. JOHN 
TALBOT YE 25tH MARCH 1719. 



1 G. ffoxe's Battledore of all Lan- 
guages. 

2 Journall — 2 vol. 

3 Great Mvsterv. 

4 Eobt Berelav's Works.' 

5 Sam' J. Fisher's Works. 

6 Edw'd Burrow's Works. 

7 G. Bishop's Looking-Glass. 

8 Wm Pen's Christ Quaker. 

9 Quaker's Tracts — 3 vol. 

10 ^Ym Bayly's Works. 

11 George Keith's Narrative. 

12 Wm. Pen's Tracts. 

13 Wm. Pen's Travels. 

14 James Parnel's Works. 

15 Jno. Foldo Quakerism no 

Xtianity. 



16 Quakers Quiblers — 3 vol. 

17 George Keirh's Truth advanc'd. 
IS The Prinoiplo- rif ye Elect People 

of Ir.H.l yt- < tiKikers 

19 Snake in ye Gra.-s — 3 vol. 

20 Anguis Flagellatus. 

21 Josia Cole"s"Works. 

22 Francis Bug's Tracts. 

23 George Whitehead's Tracts, 

several. 

24 Pen's Sandy foundation. 

25 Quakers Treatise against Oaths. 

26 Dan"! Philip" s Yindiccae Yen- 

tatis. 



ANOTHER ADDEESS TO THE ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS. 

In April, 1719, the Rev. Mr. Talbot laid before the vestry 
of Christ Church, Philadelphia, another address to the Arch- 
bishops and Bishops of the Church of England, ' setting forth the 
necessity of a Bishop to reside among us in this country, which 
was signed by all the members present viz : the Governor, 
both wardens and eight vestrymen, tog-ether with the Rev. Mr. 
Talbot, who was also present." Dorr's History of Christ 
Church, Phila., p. 47. 

MR. TALBOT SELLS SOME OF HIS LAND. 

On the 22d of June, 1720, the Reverend John Talbot 
Minister of the Church of Saint Marys in Burlington,'' conveyed 
to ^' Paull Watkinson Clerk of the Sd Church,"' for " Six pounds 
thirteen Shillings Curent Silver Money,'' a ^'Lott of Land 
Lyeing in the Town of Burlington, Beginning at Broad Street & 
Runs Back by the Church yard North thirteen deg. West six- 
teen perches to a Stake then South Seventy Seven Deg. West 
five perches to a Stake then South thirteen deg. East Sixteen 
perches to Broad Street then fronting Broad Street five perches 
to the first Beginning by the Church yard Containing Eighty 
perches or half an Acre." 

The " Indenture " for the above, elaborately engrossed on 
vellum, is in the archives of the Parish. It was " Sealed & De- 
livered in The Presents of Rob! "Wevman " and Titan Leeds." 



IX BURLINGTON. 



161 



The seal, affixed to the name of Mr. Talbot, is described, by one 
versed in heraldry,t thus : On a shield, a fesse between three 
eagles displayed, beaked and membered, — two in the superior, 
and one in the inferior quarter.^^ 

MR. TALBOT AGAIX VISITS EXGLAND. 

At some time soon after this, Mr. Talbot again visited 
England; and in April, 1721, obtained the interest on Arch- 
bishop Tenison's legacy. 

Order for recewing the Interest of the late ArchhisJioj) Tenison^s 

£1000. 

" Upon the humbk petition of John Talbot, Clerk, this day 
preferred to the Eight Honourable, the Lord High Chancellor 
of Great Britain, thereby setting forth that Dr. Thomas Teni- 
son, late Archbishop of Canterbury, did by Codicil to his AYill, 
bequeath £1000 towards settlement of Bishops in America ; and 
until such lawful appointments of Bishops, did direct that the 
interest should be applied to the benefit of such missionaries, 
being Englishmen of the province of Canterbury, as have taken 
true pains in the respective plans committed by the Society to 
their care in the foreign plantations, and have been by unavoid- 
able accidents, sickness, or other infirmities of the body, or old 
age, disabled from the performance of their duties in the said 
places, and forced to return to England ; and that upon the 
hearing of this Cause, it was among other things ordered that 
the £1000 should be placed out at interest, on such Government 
or other security as Mr. Bennet, by whom the account of the 
Testator's personal Estate was directed to be taken, should ap- 
prove of, and the interest thereof is to be applied according to 
the directions of the Testator's Will, until one month after the 
appointment and consecration of two Bishops, and that the said 
John Talbot, who was formerly Eector of Freethern, in the 
County and Diocese of Gloucester and province of Canterbury, 
hath been in the service of the said Society for the propagation 



7 Mr. Artliiir Sands, a AVarden of Trinity Church, Trenton, J. 



162 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



of the Gospel in foreign parts, as their Missionary in the foreign 
plantations, near 18 years, during which time he hath taken 
true pains in the discliarge of his holy function, in the several 
places committed to his care by the said Society, and by his zeal 
and exemplary life, and conversation,! hath done great service 
to the Church in America, and therefore is cjualified to receive 
the interest of the said £1000, as by the certificate of the said 
Corporation, under their Common Seal, hereunto annexed, may 
appear, and that there having no Bishops been yet appointed in 
America, and the said John Talbot being the only missionary 
that is an Englishman, and of the province of Canterbury, hath 
been so long, and behaved himself so well, in the said service, 
as by the said certificate appears, the said John Talbot, by the 
direction of the said Society, applied himself to the said Mr. 
Bennet, for the said interest, who apprehends he cannot pay the 
same without the direction of this Court, and thereupon the 
said John Talbot, on the 22d April 1721, applied himself to 
your Lordship, that the said Mr. Bennet might pay such interest 
as w^as then due to him, which was ordered accordingly, and that 
the said Mr. Bennet, pursuant to the said Order, did pay unto 
the said John Talbot, all the interest then received, and the said 
John Talbot hath applied to the said Mr. Bennet for what 
interest has been received since, who apprehends he cannot pay 
the same, without your Lordship's further directions : There- 
fore, and inasmuch as there is no other person entitled to receive 
any part of the said interest, it is prayed, that the said Mr. 
Bennet may be ordered to pay such Interest as is now due to 
the said John Talbot, or, as he shall appoint, which is ordered 
accordingly, whereof notice is forthwith to-be given. 

'^Ric. Price, Deput. Reg." 

J In tlie abstract of the proceedings of tlie S. P. G., for 1720, is the follow- 
ing: "From the Church Wardens & Vestry of Burlington in Xew Jersev, — 
that the Eev. Mr. Talbot, by -whose mission they now received inexpressible 
benefit, has by his unfeigned zeal for the glory of God, & the good of His 
Church, by his exemplary piety & sober life & conversation, much adorned 
the Gospel of our Lord & Saviour, Jesus Christ." 



IX BURLINGTOX. 



163 



GOVERNOR BURNET. 

In 1720, Gov. Hunter resigned in favor of William Barnet, f 
(son of the celebrated bishop,) who met the Assembly J soon 
after his arrival. 

In his speech, early in the Spring of 1721, he said : 
I must recommend to you, not to think of me, so much as 
of the inferior officers of this government, who want your care 
more, and whose salary have hitherto amounted to a very small 
share of the publick expence ; and now you are just beginning 
to taste of new blessings, I cannot but remind you of those which 
you have so long enjoyed, and without which all other advan- 
tages would but have increased your sufferings, under a Popish 
king, and a French government. 

You can ascribe your deliverance from these, to nothing but 
the glorious revolution, begun by king William the third, of im- 
mortal memory, and compleated by the happy accession of his 
present majesty king George, to the throne of Great-Britain, 
and his entire success against his rebellious subjects at home, 
and all his enemies abroad. 

" To this remarkable deliverance, by an over-ruling hand of 
providence, you owe the preservation of your laws and liberties, 
the secure enjoyment of your property, and a free exercise of 
religion, according to the dictates of your conscience : These in- 
valuable blessings are so visible among us, and the misery of 
countries where tyranny and persecution prevail, so well known, 
that I need not mention them, to raise in your minds the 
highest sense of your obligations to serve God, to honour the 
king, and love your country.'^ Smith's History^p, 415. 

A BILL AGAINST ATHEISM. 

Sundry bills were prepared this sessions," says Smith, among 
which was one with this singular title, An Act against denying 
the Divinity of our Saviour Jesus Christ, the doctrine of the blessed 
Trinity, the truth of the Holy Scriptures, and spreading atheisti- 
cal boohs : " " Assemblies in the colonies,'' he adds flippantly, 
have rarely troubled themselves with these subjects, perhaps 

t Born at the Hague in Holland, March, 1688 ; named for William, 
Prince of Orange, who was his godfather. Encydopcedia Americana, 
Vol. II, p. 336. 

i Among the members of Council, in his instructions, were Lewis Morris 
and Peter Bard. Among the members of Assembly, those from the town of 
Burlington, were John Allen and Jonathan Wright. Smith's History, p. 414. 



164 



HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



laever before or since ; it probably arose from the governor's 
motion, wlio liad a turn that way, and had himself wrote a book 
to unfold some part of the apocalipse; the bill was however re- 
jected on the second reading in the assembly." History of New 
Jersey, p. 411 . 

PLAX FOR AX AMERICAX UXIOX. 

Col. Daniel Coxe,t ii^ 1722, published in London, A De- 
scEiPTiox of the English Peoyixce of Caeolaxa, by the 
Spaniards call'd Florida, and by the French, La Louisiane, 
with a large and curious Preface, demonstrating the Right of 
the English to that Country, and the unjust Manner of the 
Erench usurping of it ; their prodigious Increase there, &q. and 
the inevitable Danger our other Colonies on the Continent will 
be exposed to, if not timely prevented ; interspersed with many 
useful Hints, in Regard to our Plaxtatioxs in General." 

In this Preface, is the following : 

"The only Expedient I can at present think of, or shall pre- 
sume to mention (with the utmost Deference to His JVIajesty 
and His Ministers) to help and obviate these Absurdities and 
Inconveniences, and apply a. Remedy to them, is. That All the 
Colonies appertaining to the Crown of Great Britaix on the 
Xorthern Continent of America, be United under a Legal, 
Regular, and firm Establishment ; Over which, it's propos'd a 
Lieutenant, or Supreme Governour, may be constituted, and 
appointed to Preside on the Spot, to whom the Governours of 
each Colony shall be Subordinate. 

"It is further humbly propos'd. That two Deputies shall be 
annually Elected by the Council and Assembly of each Province, 
who are to be in the Xature of a Great Council, or General Con- 
vention of the Estates of the Colonies ; and by the Order, 
Consent or Approbation of the Lieutenant or Governour Gen- 
eral, shall meet together. Consult and Advise for the Good of 
the whole. Settle and Appoint particular Quota's or Proportion's 
of Money, Men, Provisions, &c. that each respective Govern- 
ment is to raise, for their mutual Defence and Safety, as well, 
as, if necessary, for Offence and Invasion of their Enemies ; in 
all which cases the Governour General or Lieutenant is to have 
a Xegative ; but not to Enact any Thing without their Concur- 
rence, or that of the Majority of them. 



f Son of Daniel Coxe, M. J)., of London. See p. 11. 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



165 



The Quota or Proportion, as above allotted and charg'd on 
each Colony, may, nevertheless, be levy^d and rais'd by its own 
Assembly, in snch Manner, as They shall judge most Easy and 
Convenient, and the Circumstances of their Aifairs will permit. 

Other Jurisdictions, Powers and Authorities, respecting the 
Honour of His Majesty, the Interest of the Plantations, and 
the Liberty and Property of the Proprietors, Traders, Planters 
and Inhabitants in them, may be Vested in and Cognizable by 
the abovesaid Governour General or Lieutenant, and Grand 
Convention of the Estates, according to the Laws of England, 
but are not thought fit to be touch'd on or inserted here ; This 
Proposal being General, and with all humility submitted to the 
Consideration of our Superiours, who may Improve, Model, or 
Reject it, as they in their Wisdom shall judge proper. 

''A CoALiTiox or L^nion of this Xature, tempered with and 
grounded on Prudence, Moderation and Justice, and a generous 
Incouragement given to the Labour, Industry, and good Man- 
agement of all Sorts and Conditions of Persons inhabiting, or, 
any ways, concerned or interested in tlie several Colonies above 
mention'd, will, in all probability, lay a sure and lasting Foun- 
dation of Dominion, Strength, and Trade, sufficient not only to 
Secure and Promote the Prosperity of the Plantations, but to 
revive and greatly increase the late Flourishing State and Con- 
dition of Great Britaix, and thereby render it, once more, 
the Envy and Admiration of its Xeighbours. 

'^Let us consider the Fall of our Ancestors, and grow wise 
by their Misfortunes. If the Ancient Britains had been united 
amongst themselves, the Eomans, in all probability, bad never 
become their Masters : For as Caesar observ'd of them, Dum 
Singuli pugnabant, Universi vincebantur, whilst they fought in 
-eparate Bodies, the whole Island was subdued. So if the Eng- 
lish Colonies in America were Consolidated as one Bodv, and 
joyn'd in one Common Interest, as they are under one Gracious 
Sovereign, and with united Forces were ready and willing to 
act in Concert, and assist each other, they would be better 
enabled to provide for and defend themselves, against any 
troublesome Ambitious Xeighbour, or bold Invader. For 
Union and Concord increase and establish Strength and Power, 
whilst Division and Discord have the contrary Eifects." 

'•'In this plan,''' says Grahame,"r ^' we behold the germ of that" 
more celebrated, though less original project, which was again 
inelfectually recommended by an American statesman in 1754; 



t Graliame's Colonial History, Vol. II, p. 199. 



166 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



and which, not many years after, was actually embraced by his 
countrymen." 

Field, t quoting this, adds: It was in fact the very plan, 
which was recommended by Dr. Franklin to the Convention at 
Albany, in 1754, for the purpose of forming a league with the 
Six Xations, and concerting measures for united operations 
against the encroachments of the French. This plan of Dr. 
Franklin's has been much talked of as ^ the Albany Plan of 
Union,' figures largely in all our histories, and is thought to 
have been one of those grand and original conceptions for which 
he was so famous. And yet, it was little niore than a transcript 
of the design sketched by Daniel Coxe, many years before, and 
wdiich would seem to have originated Avith him. To him, there- 
fore, a citizen of ]S'ew Jersey, belongs the credit of it, and the 
truth of history requires, that from him it should no longer 
be withheld." 

BEQUEST OF LAXD FOE A CHUECH AND SCHOOL. 

Extracts from the Will of Williarii Biidd. 

" Ix THE Xame oe God A^iex I William Budd of Xortham- 
ton Town in ye County of Burlington in the Province of AVest 
Jersey Gent : Being Sick and Weak of Body But of Perfect 
Mind and Memory thanks be Given unto God therefore Call- 
inof unto mind the Mortalitv of mv Bodv and knowino: that it is 
appointed for all men once to Die do make and ordain this my 
Last Will and Testament That is to say Principally and first of 
all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the Hands of God 
that Gave it and my Body I Recommend unto ye Earth to be 
Buried in Decent Christian Buriell att ye Discretion of my 
Executrix hereafter named nothin Doubting but att ye Generall 
Resurrection I shall Receive ye same again by ye mighty 
Power of God and as Touching such Worldly Estate wherewith 
it hath Pleased God to Bless me in this Life I Give Devise and 
Dispose of the same in the following manner and form 

^'1 Give unto my son William Budd five hundred and 
fifteen acres of Land | Except Tenn acres of Meadow | ^ 



J Field's Provincial Courts of New Jersey, pp. 13-1, 137. 



IN BUELINGTON. 



167 



I Give him my Best Coat my Cane and Seal and ye Boy Wil- 
liam Allcoot he paying to his Sister Susana Budd ye sum of 
Twenty Pounds Current Silver money of ye Province af'^ when 
shee Comes to ye Age of Twenty and one Years or att the Day 
of her marriage which happens first * * 

Item I give unto the Episcopall Church of England the 
hundred acres of Land Keserved out of the Land of my sons 
for a Church to be Built thereon and a Schooll to be keept Pro- 
vided ye said Church be Built thereon within Ten years after 
ray Decease and if no Church should be Built within ye Term 
afores'^ then ye said Land to Return to my son John Budd his 
Heirs and Assigns forever 

I Give and Bequeath unto M'' John Talbot forty Shillings. 
And do Constitute and appoint my Trusty and Well Beloved 
Friends and Kinsmen M"" John Budd of Philadelphia and M'' 
Robert Wheeler of Burlington my Trusties to be aiding and 
Assisting my Executrix in y*^ Execution and p'formance of this 
my Last Will and Testament. And Doe Give Each of them 
the sum of fifty shillings apeice Current Silver money. Item I 
give unto the Church of Burlington five Pounds Current money, 
item I Give to my Son William Budd my vest with the State 
Buttons thereon. Item I give my Well Beloved Wife Ann 
Budd all my Goods Chattels and Plantation whereon I now 
Dwell and all my Land undisposed of During the Term of her 
Naturall Life and Doe hereby Give her full Power to Dispose 
■Sell and Convey over to any Person or Persons to them their 
heirs and assigns forever. * 

In Witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and Seal 
ye pirst Day of March in y^ year of our Lord God one Thousand 
Seven hundred Seven and Eight. 

William Budd. f [l. s.] " 

t In nearly the centre of St. Mary's Church-yard, there is a headstone with 
this inscription ; " This in Memory of William Budd of Northampton 
Township who l)yed March ye 20th Anno Dom : 172 J Aged 73. Also Ann 
his Wife who Dyed Sepr. ye'SOth Anno Dom : 1722 Aged 67." 



168 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



XONJURORSf COXSECRATE JOHX TALBOT.. 

Collier, Hawes and Spinckes had obtained, for the second- 
time, the concurrence and assistance of the Scotch nonjurors^ 
Campbell and Gadderar ; and they five, on the 2-6th of June 
1716^^ says Percival, (adding a foot-note, that "Mr. Bowd- 
ler's MS. mentions January 25th 1715,^') consecrated Gandy 
and Brett. 

On the "'22d of March, 1720-1," says the same authority^ 
"Hawes Spinckes and Gandy" consecrated "Ralph Taylor;" and 
on " the 6th of April," consecrated " Hiikiah Bedford." 

About this time a division occurred among the nonjurors ; ■ 
" Brett, Collier, and the Scotch Bishop, Campbell, who had set- 
tled himself in England," says Percival, "insisting upon mak- 
ing alterations in the Liturgy, to which Hawes, Spinckes, Gandy, 
Taylor and Bedford would not consent." Taylor, singly, con- 
secrated Dr. Robert Welton — who had been deprived of the 
rectorship of Whitechapel, London, for his adhesion to the non- 
jurors— and Ralph Taylor and Robert Welton together y. con- 
secrated John Talbot. This was previous to October, 1722. J 

J Measures were taken, soon after tlie transfer of the crown to the Prince of 
Orange, for continuing a succession of bishops, among the nonjurors. King 
James was applied to, who ordered a list of the nonjuring clergy to be sent to 
him, in France. From these, he directed that one should be nominated by 
Sancroft, and one by Lloyd, late of Norwich, (see p. 11..) Hickes and Wag- 
stafie were accordingly designated ; and consecrated, February 24th, 1693, in. 
the lodgings of the Bishop of Peterborough, in Mr. Gillard's house — Henry, 
Earl of Clarendon, being present at the cer.emony. "It was not," says Perci- 
val, in the appendix to his 'Apology for Apostolical Succession,' p. 133, 
" till all the deprived Bishops and WagstafFe had died, that Hickes determined 
to keep up a succession of Bishops for the Nonjurors ; for which purpose he 
applied to the Bishops in Scotland; two of whom, Campbell and Gadderar, 
together with Hickes, consecrated Collier, Spinckes and Hawes, in 1713." 
"These memoranda," he says, "are drawn partly from- some curious printed 
documents, in my own possession, and partly from information furnished by 
Rev. Thomas Bowdler, Incumbent of Sydenham, and Eev. H. H. Norris,. 
Eector of South Hackney." Lathbury, in his "History of the Nonjurors," 
printed in 1842, gives similar, though not quite so full, or accurate, data. 

iThe only error detected in Percival's account is the date he gives for both 
Welton's and Talbot's consecration, which he says, in his table, took place in. 
"1723-4," whereas, in the same table, he gives the death of Taylor, in Decem- 
ber 1722 ; and moreover, we find that Mr. Talbot — who derived his Episco- 
pate from Taylor, as Avell as Welton — had returned to America, and was in 
Burlington, in November, 1722, a year before the date given by Percival.. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



169' 



ME. ELLIS'S CERTIFICATE, 

About the paragraph in his Letter, printed in the abstract of the 
Society^ s proceedings, loith the Bishop of Carlisle's Sermon. 

" Burlington in West Jersey Oct^ 2P* 1722. 
" In the abstract to the Right Rev'^ Lord Bishop of Carlisle's- 
anuiversary Sermon preached before the R* Rev"^ & R* Honble 
the Society for propagation of the Gospel &c in the year 1719 
there is a copy of a complaint as the paragraph inserts it to be 
made by me underwritten sometime preceeding that abstract 
against the people called Quakers in these words viz'" ' But that 
in the general education of his charge he meets with many hin- 
drances from the Quakers ' what I meant by that charge is that 
I was sent here as Schoolmaster by the Ilonble Society They 
(the Quakers) sent their Children to other persons who from 
time to time have been hired by them to teach School in this 
Tow-n the which I looked upon as a great hindrance and detri- 
ment to the business in which I was employed and to Catechis- 
ing the Children in School they never interrupted me but those 
few that sent their Children to me desired me not to instruct 
them in the Catechism for they would not have them educated 
in that way. 

" Row^LAND Ellis." 
M"" Ellis acknowledged he was no otherwise hindred than 
he has here declared. 

" Per ^Y'' IlARiiisox 3IhV of Hopewell t£-c." 

'^THE HOUSE AT THE POINT ALMOST TORN TO PIECES." 

ChurcJuoardens of Burlington to the Society. 

''V Nov^ 1722 

^^R" Rev^&R^ Honble: 

Sometime since sev^ of the principal of the people called' 
Quakers residing in this Town made their applications to us 
with the vestry in relation to a passage in the transactions of the 
Socy and the end of a Sermon preached by the Lord Bishop of 
Carlisle in the year 1719 before the said Society in the words 
following (From W Ellis Schoolmaster at Burlington) That on 



170 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays in every week and on every 
Sunday in the Church he constantly catechizes the Children 
whose parents are of the Church but in the general execution of 
his charge he meets with many hindrances from the Quakers 
and desired that he would do them the justice to certify whether 
they had ever given M'' Ellis any manner of interruption in the 
general execution of his Charge. 

We thought it our duty to send for M'" Ellis and to get him 
to give an account what occasioned him to write that paragraph 
which the whole Town knows to be an error after some time he 
gave us his answer in writing which we have enclosed that the 
people injured who contend to apply to you might be justified 
and the blame laid on the right person. 

We are extremely sorry that your House at the point is so 
miserably out of repair and almost torn to pieces since it was 
repaired by the care of one of us by the direction of Brigadier 
Hunter your Honors having taken the charge out of our hands 
and put it into others who have done nothing in it hath put it 
out of our power we shall at all times be ready in that or any 
other thing to show our readiness to serve you and to acknowl- 
edge the favors our Church hath rec"^ from you and do assure you 
nothing in our power shall ever be wanting to testify that we are 
" R' Rev^^ & R^ Honble 

" Your most obliged & very humble Serv'^ 

Bass, I churchw^^" 
'^Geo. Willis, J 

ALL GLAD TO SEE MR. TALBOT IX BURLINGTOX AGAIN. 

3Ir. Talbot to the Secretary. 

"Burlington, November 27, [1722.] 

Sir : 

" I and Mr. Skinner arrived safe, in six weeks at Philadel- 
phia, never better weather, nor so good a Passage, as the Cap- 
tain said (who was a Quaker) ; they and the sailors used to say, 
they had no luck when the Priests were on Board, but now 
they are both prettily convinced, and finally converted, to say no 
more. All sorts and conditions of men, women and children 



IN BURLINGTON. 



171 



were glad to see us return^ for they had given me over. I was 
yesterday at New Bristol, in Pensylvania, to call the people to 
Church, but they had almost lost the way ; it was so overgrown 
with Bushes, they could hardly find the Church, having had 
nothing to do there, for two years and a half.f Since I came 
away the Church there has suffered very much, but the Bishop's 
house here at the point, is in the worst condition of all ; 'tis 
made nothing but a baudy-house, a sheep's cote and play-house ; 
the boys have broken the windows from the top to bottom ; they 
break the doors, steal the leads and iron bars, they pull down 
the pales, and cut the Cedar posts, they steal the fruit, and break 
the Trees ; 'tis in vain to repair it any more, unless some family 
be put in to guard it, I think. I have a house of my own just 
by the Church, and I would not live in the point House, if they 
would give it to me, but I am loath to see it fall down, as the 
Coach House and stables have already ; and what will they do 
for the meadows, they will be lost if not claimed speedily, the 
witnesses will be dead that know where the Lands lie ; if the 
Society think fit to send any Orders about these things, I hope 
they will come before it is too late ; I thought it my duty to 
lay these things before the Honorable Body, and hope you will 
read it to the Committee and Society, that something may be 
-done, before the whole House drops through ; this is the last 
time of asking, so I crave your prayers and remain 
Your most obedient servant, 

JoHx Talbot. 

" P. S. — The Society had better never have bought this House, 
for some Gentleman or another, such as Colonel Coxe, would 
have done very well with it, but since they have bought, and 
can't sell it again for the worth, they had better make a Free 
School or a College ; it is very well contrived for that purpose. 
Several of Mr. Skinner's scholars at Philadelphia are fit for the 
Academy, but here is no place to send them to ; they can't afford 
to send their children to Europe for Education ; sailing is now 
too dangerous and troublesome and chargeable, something of a 
College must be had here, the sooner the better. 

" J. T." 

f The duration, in round numbers, of Mr. Talbot's last, and most memorable, 
sojourn in England. 



172 



HISTOUY OF THE CHURCH 



THE EUIX, AND THE REPAIRS, OF THE SOCIETY'S HOUSE. 

Jlessrs. Coxe ci' Trent to the Secretary. 

'^Trenton 20"^ Sept^ 1723. 

'•'Sir 

" Having received the honor of the Societys commands by 
your letter of the 2P' of Sepf last relating to the repairs neces- 
sary to be done to their house and Gardens at Burlington and 
keeping up all the fences round them, the Orchard &c. 

" In pursuant of these orders and discharge of the Trust re- 
posed in us as soon as our affairs would permit — we repaired 
thither to inspect the circumstances and condition thereof and to 
give proper directions about the same. Upon the first view we 
are sorrv to say nothing could appear more ruinous and desolate 
— The Orchard Garden and Fields behind the house were quite 
open and become a common pasture to the Horses Cattle and 
Sheep of the Town — The fences round them being down and 
many of the rails rotten though the posts which consisted of 
cedar were standing, many of the Fruit Trees were entirely de- 
stroyed and others had their best branches broke ofiP or hanging-^ 
down and dead. As to the house all the doors were open & 
all the locks except one with the latches and bolts stole away — 
The windows from top to bottom were broke few pannels remain- 
ing whole and even many of the casements were missing, the 
rooms below stairs were the usual retreat and harbour of the 
Sheep in the night time and severity of the weather — Their dung 
lay many inches thick on the floors & on the walls were various 
unseemly figures drawn with charcoal besides immodest and 
wicked descriptions — The well was filled with the skeletons of 
sheep and other rubbish and the iron handle of the pump taken 
away but since by us recovered — The Lead on the top of the 
house was for the greatest part gone, and as we have lately re- 
ceived some intimation through whose hands it past we shall 
endeavor to discover them if possible — several of the Chamber 
doors above stairs were broke to pieces & the flooring in many 
places rent up together with some hearths chimney pieces and 
ceilings, to search as is said for hidden treasure — The Cellars and 
Offices adjoining were one continued heap of dung and nastiuess 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



173 



— we are obliged to employ Indians and Negroes to perform an 
almost herculean labour in cleaning them for none of the white 
men could be persuaded to undertake the task in short every 
thing was in the utmost disorder and confusion. 

^' Wherefore finding it absolutely necessary either immediately 
to repair the whole or else to suffer it to run to entire decay — 
we sent for workmen the best could be procured and computed 
the charge of the work according to their several calculations if 
they undertook by the which being very extravagant 

we altered our purpose and resolved to employ each man by the 
day which method proved the best and saved almost half in 
half as well as created a speedier dispatch of the business so that 
w^e can assure the Society that the house and fences are in very 
good repair — we saved indeed every thing that was needless and 
served only for ornament or ostentation, however tho' the work 
is mostly plain yet its very good and substantial and w^ill as we 
believe answer the Societys intentions and with some new rails 
which we shall add next Spring to the fences and the Societys 
half of a new fence betwixt their lands and the Southern lots 
will last many years with a small expence. 

We have persuaded with much difficulty an honest Gentle- 
man who is deputy Secretary to the Province and a Justice of 
the Peace to live in the house and we find already from his bear 
Interest and authority a very great alteration for the better none 
attempting since his residence there to break the windows destroy 
the Fruit Trees or pull down the fence to let their Cattle into their 
Orchard or pasture which before it was impossible to prevent. 

" The Garden we have contracted into a narrower compass 
but it may be enlarged when ever it is necessary — All the out- 
houses except the Stable have been demolished & the materials 
destroyed several years past and we presume its needless at 
present to erect them again yet it shall be done whenever the 
Society sends their orders for that purpose. 

" We find it necessary that some sheet lead should be sent 
over with all convenient speed for the covering of the Top of 
the house in the room of what has hev.n taken hence. 

We have not yet received the original deeds of the Societys 
house and lands left by Coll Hunter in the custody of Coll 



174 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Depeyster of New York that unhappy Gentleman being at 
present deprived of the use of his reason, but a friend of ours 
has undertaken to procure them speedily and send us, and then 
we shall immediately put them on record at Burlington and 
transmit to the Society an authentic copy of them together with 
a Survey of the lands and meadows belonging to the house. 

The several tradesmens bills already delivered in and paid 
amount to £6d 11. 1 lawful money of America according to Act 
of Parliament which reduced to sterling is £52 3. 3J for which 
sum we have drawn on the Honble Society payable to John 
Moore Esq"" or his order. 

" We shall write you further uext Xovember if any ship sails 
from Philadelphia or Xew York by which time we may be able 
to send you a state of the whole account and other affairs of the 
Society as directed particularly about the Meadows which a 
Gentleman of Philadelphia has been in possession of many years. 

" What seems to us most for the Societys Interest is that a 
suit at law be immediately commenced for the recovery of their 
rights because several antient people who will appear good evi- 
dences in their behalf are very infirm and can't by course of 
nature last long and that it may be less tedious and expensive 
will endeavor to persuade the Gentlemen to go to law by con- 
sent if its the opinion of the Society and they send their com- 
mands so to do. 

We are Sir &c 

'^Dax^ Coxe 
W Teent." 

MORE WORK TO DO XOW THAN, BEFORE, 

JTr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

Burlington, 20th September, 1723. 

^^Rev. Sir: 

I have more work to do now than I had before, and I have 
no assistant; they are both gone, and have left me and the 
Church in the lurch. I have fifteen miles to travel from the 
Capes of Delaware to the Hills and Mountains in East Jersey, 
and none to help me but Mr. Lidenius, a Swedish minister, and 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



175^ 



he is going away. I have been this month at Trenton, at 
Hopewell, and Amwell, preaching and baptizing nineteen per- 
sons in one day. I visited several persons that w^ere sick, wdio 
had been Quakers, and who were come off their errors, wdth 
Mr. George Keith ; they were 80 years of age, and had never 
received the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper in all their 
lives, but were loth to die, without the benefit and comfort of it 
so I was fain to come back again to Burlington, to get the Ele- 
ments, then returned to the Mountains, and did administer to- 
their great satisfaction. They are preparing to build a Church 
in the Spring, but when they will have a minister I cannot tell ;; 
but it is a solemn thing (as they say in Xew England) for the 
lost sheep to go astray in the "Wilderness ; to be among Wolves- 
is worse, but for sheep to be without a shepherd, is the most 
deplorable case of all ; meanwhile it is some comfort to see the 
Bishop's house at Burlington, in repairs again ; it is as well 
finished and furnished, as ever I saw it. The Governour of 
Xew York is coming to reside here for a month or two. "We 
have got an honest Churchman, as we suppose, to live there and 
keep it in good order, now^ it is so, by care and order of Colonel 
Coxe; if the account comes not by this ship, ' Old Annise,' it 
will by the next this fall, in Captain Richmond. I have set up 
one Mr. Searle, a schoolmaster, to read prayers, and preach on 
Sundays, at Springfield ; I lent him some sermons of Drs.. 
Tillotson and Beveridge ; several Quakers came to hear him, 
and are much taken with him ; they say they never thought 
the Priests had so much Good Doctrine. I am sure he is a 
much better Clerk than Mr. H n, saving his orders, there- 
fore I commend him to the Society for their encouragement ; 
and hope they will count him worthy to be a half-pay officer in 
their service. I pray God bless all our benefactors, and prosper 
all the labours of all their honest missioners, especially 

'^Your &c. 

" Jonx Talbot.'' 

DISMISSAL OF ME. LEMSTOX FEOM PHILADELPHLl. 

The vacancy in Christ Church, Philadelj^hia, occasioned by 
the death of the Bev. Mr. Yicary was temporarily supplied by 



176 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



the Rev. John UrmstoD, ^\ho had been a missionary in Xorth 
Carolina. His conduct, however, was such as to bring great 
reproach upon the church, and he was dismissed, after having 
preached there but about a year. The following proceedings 
were had, in consequence of Mr. Urmston's removal : 

''At a meeting of the vestry, October 29th, 1723, Mr. Era- 
ser, church warden, laid before the vestry a minute of the cour 
vention of the clergy of this province, held at Chichester the 23d 
day of this instant, October, wdiich was read, and is as followeth: 

^ A member of the convention having laid before the brethren 
the reflections cast upon those missionaries who recommended 
Mr. Urmston to supply the cure of Philadelphia, and the said 
member having signified wdiat reasons such reflections were 
grounded upon, agreed that the Rev. Mr. Talbot and the Rev. 
5lr. AVeyman do acquaint the vestry and wardens of the church 
•of Philadelphia, that the clergy of this province are willing and 
ready to concur in the removal of the said Mr. Urmston from 
Philadelphia, provided they do signify their uneasiness to the 
convention, and make their application to them, or any three of 
their number, under their haaids to that purpose. 

'^Signed, JoHx Talbot, 
'^George Ross, 
'^JoHX Humphreys, 
" Robert We YM AX, 
William Beckett.' 

The above communication having been read, it was ^ Re- 
solved that the thanks of this vestry be given to the gentlemen 
of the convention for their expressing themselves so willing and 
ready to concur in the removal of Mr. Urmston from Philadel- 
phia.' It was further ^ ordered that the church wardens Vv'ait 
upon as many of the above clergy as they conveniently can, and 
deliver them a copy of this minute, and let them know that if 
they please to supply this church till we can be otherwise pro- 
vided, we shall gratefully acknowledge the favour. 

Signed, William Frazer, Church Warden; and by ten Ves- 
trymen, among whom were Peter Evans and Samuel Hasell." 
Dorr^s History of Christ Church, Philadelphia, pp. 51, 52. 

BURLIXGTOX MORE PLEASAXT THAK SALISBURY. 

Mr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

" Philadelphia, 9th December, 1723. 

" Rey'd Sir, 

This place is my head quarters. I was taken very ill in the 
church last Sunday at Burlington with Cholera Morbus so that 



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I was forced to leave the church. After I read the Psalms I 
could go no further. After I had laid by some days I came 
down to Philadelphia to consult the Doctor andj thank God, I 
have had my health very well. When I can get any help I 
send them to Burlington and go myself some times, but 'tis a 
thousand pities this place should be destitute. Here are mucli 
people and tho' they are poor, they ought not to be lost for lack 
of looking after. They are w^ell rid of with \blanh in ifiS'.f] at 
last. He Avas worse than Phillips and would not go away till 
he was starved out. Here's nothing but a little paper coin cur- 
rent, neither money, credit nor Tobacco. The best of the people 
had left the church so they would muster nothing but they 
would give him some what to go away so they got rid of him at 
last. Col. Coxe and Mr. Trent have done their parts towards 
the Society's house at Burlington. They have put it all in 
good order both within and without. The Gardens, Orchard 
and pasture are fenced all round and, what is more than ever 
was done, they have got an honest man (as we suppose), to live 
there as Adam did in Paradise to dress it and keep it so 'tis fit 
now for any Governor in Church or State. Mr. Burnet has 
been there this quarter almost, & he says 'tis more pleasant than 
Salisbury! in England. Therefore I am not fallen out with my 
first love, Dear Bur : but I have some pity of poor Philadelphia. 
Because she has none to help her, there is most need there at 
present. I can do most good till some body else comes so I 
commend myself and service to the Hon'ble Society & desiring 
their prayers I rest their & 

Your humble Servant, 

Jo : Talbot." 

THE RAVING OF THE EEV. JOHN URMSTON. 

"Cecil County in Maryland, June ult. 1724. 

" Rev. Sir : 

" You may remember that I once had a mind to have gone 
with the D. of Portland ; you were pleased to offer me that 
letter to a French Marquis who went with his Grace. I thought 

t Presumed to be the Eev. John Urmstou. 

X The Governor was the son of the Bishop of Salisbury. 

M 



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my Lord D. of KiDQ;ton who iriarried the otlier's sister might 
be more effectual. He spake to his brother and his answer was 
that he should take no more into his family and yet soon after 
entertained Charles Lamb. This was one of the many dis- 
appointments I met with whilst in England last. I was rude 
in not acquainting you with my departure, but believe you will 
be so good as to pardon that and many other liberties particu- 
larly this long scroll which with humble respects will give you 
a further account of my unfortunate circumstances which I the 
rather communicate to you knowing you to be no half papist, as 
too many of the clergy now-a-days are. 

You're to be acquainted that I went from London to Kew 
England, where I had some hopes of staying but was prevented 
by the Xew Converts, one whereof had the offer if he would go 
to England and be ordained, and forthwith did, and is now 
/' minister of the Xevr Episcopal Church in Boston, the only man 
that could be thought of ; he'll do more good there than any 
other. I left the place very contentedly, and went from New 
Y^ork, where I narrowly missed of being Chaplain to the Fort 
and assistant to Mr. Yesey. Hearing that the Incnmbent of 
Philadelphia was gone to England for his health, and left the 
place ill-supplyed, I hastened thither, and was gladly received 
of the people. About six months after, we had the news of the 
death of the Incumbent aforesaid. I had written to my corres- 
pondent to get some friend to intercede with my then Lord of 
London to appoint me minister there. I never doubted of my 
friend's diligence nor his Lordship's favour, but my letters from 
England must certainly have been intercepted. Mr. Talbot, the 
famous Rector of Burlington, in the Jerseys, supplanted me 
here.'*" Governor Burnet had been long displeased with him by 
reason he is a notorious Jacobite, and will not pray for the King 
and Royal Family by name, only says the King and Prince, by 
which ^tis obvious whom he means. He hath often endeavoured 
to persuade me to do so too (little less than treason, I think, to 
go about to pervert the King's subjects from their duty and 
allegiance to his Majesty). He hath poisoned all the neigli- 



f A counter statement to this appears in tlie following : 

" December 19, 1723. 

'' To the Right Rev. Father in God, Edmund, lord bishop of London : The 
humble address and representation of the church wardens and vestry of Christ 
Church, Philadelphia. May it please your lordship, Our church, 

for above twelve months last past, rather than the doors should be shut and 
the congregation scatter, has been supplied by one Mr. Urmston, heretofore 
missionary to the honourable society to North Carolina; but now by them, for 
good reasons doubtless, dismissed, as he is by us, and .gone for Maryland." 
Dorr's History, j)p. 53, 54. 



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boiiring clergy with his rebellious principles ; they dare not 
pray otherwise than he does when he is present. He caused 
many of my hearers to leave the Church ; at last he gained his 
point, was accepted, and I kicked out very dirtily by the Yestry, 
who pretend that the Bishop of London is no Diocesan, nor 
hath anything to do there more than another Bishop, so that 
any one that is lawfully ordained and licenced by any Bishop, 
it matters not who, the Bishop of Rome I suppose Talbot and 
many more will say, or any other, is capable of taking upon him 
any cure in America. I was not sorry for my removal from so 
precarious and slavish a place, where they require two sermons 
every Lord's Day, Prayers all the week, and Homilies on Festi- 
vals, besides abundance of Funerals, Christenings at home, and 
sick to be visited ; no settled salary, the Churchwardens go from 
house to house every six months, every one gives what he 
pleases, sometimes liberally, and on the least pretence or dislike, 
or it may be the persuasion of the Churchwardens and their 
adherents, they'll give nothing, and so they forced that worthy 
gentleman. Dr. Evans, and many others to leave the places; 
they love new faces. I was told that they had eleven ministers 
within the space of nine years. About three months after Tal- 
bot was gotten into his kingdom some had the courage to go to 
Sir AYilliam Keith, who otherwise was well enough pleased with 
Talbot, and to tell his Excellency that it w^as a shame such a 
fellow should be allowed to officiate in the Church, and that if 
his Excellency suffered him they would w^rite to England 
against them both, whereupon Talbot was sent away, and the 
place hath been vacant these four months. What has become 
of this great Apostle I know" not ; certainly Governor Burnet 
will not suffer him to return to Burlington. Some of his confi- 
dants have discovered that he is in orders, as many more 
rebels are. I have heard of no ordinations he has made as yet, 
but doubtless he'll persuade all the clergy w^ho are his creatures 
to be ordained again by him. To this end he came fraught 
from England with some of the most virulent and scandalous 
pamphlets he could pick up ; that one I met with by chance, 
whose title was, 'The Case Truly Stated,' proving that all 
ordained by Bishops consecrated since or such as conformed and 
approved of the revolution are imposters, and the divine service 
is only to be performed by those who have been re-ordained by 
non-jurors, and that tliere are enough of them all over England 
to serve the Church. Proh mores atque hominum fidem! 

^' As oldest Missionary he received the three years' interest of 
the £2000 the late Archbishop of Canterbury his legacy towards 
the support of a Bishop in the plantations, and is entitled to the 



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HISTOEY OF THE CFIURCH 



same until a Bishop be appointed. My Lord Chancellor did 
not know the man, or certainly he would never have admitted 
him to so great a favour. I went by land from Philadelphia to 
North Carolina, in order to take a view of Maryland and Vir- 
ginia, and to sell my Plantation, stock, and goods ; that done, I 
returned to Maryland, and am settled in Cecil County, a very 
promising, thriving place ; the income is between 33 and 34,000, 
which will be considerable when Tobacco bears a price. 
^'I am, Reverend Sir, 
" Your most obedient 

"JoHx Urmston.'' 

MR. Talbot's gift to his successors. f 
" To ALL Christian people to whom these presents 
shall come or may concern I John Talbot Rector of St. 
Mary's Church at Burlington in the western Division of the 
Province of New Jersey, Send Greeting : Know ye, that 
Doctor Robert flPrampton Late Lord Bishop of Gloucester in the 
Kingdom of Great Brittain as well in Consideration of his great 
Zeal for Gods glory, the advancement of true Religion and 
propagation of the Catholick and Apostolick Church, and (par- 
ticularly) as a further Encouragement to the ixiinisters & pastors 
of that pure branch of it planted here in America him there- 
unto especially moving, Did Bequeath the Sum of one hun- 
dred pounds to y® use intents and purposes as hereafter in these 
p'sents limitted and as by a clause in his Last will & Testam* 
it is at Large expressed and Declared in these words following, 
Yiz^ I Give and Bequeath the Sum of one hundred pounds for 
the Encouragement of Ministers to propagate the Gospell in the 
western plantations according to y"" order of y® Church of 
England which money my will is shall be Disposed off accord- 
ing to y® Direction and appointment of the R^ Reverend fPather 
in God Henry present Bishop of London And whereas the said 
Henry Bishop of London upon the earnest Sollicitations of the 
Rev"^ Mr. Talbot made for the Legacy aforesaid in behalf of 
the Church of S^ Marys aforesaid, by a Certain writing under 
his hand and Seal bearing Date y^ 11^^ day of April in the Year 



t The following instrument — beautifully engrossed, in old English text, on 
a large piece of vellum — is still (1876) in the archives of the Parish. 



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181 



of our Lord 1713 according to y*^ pious intention of our worthy 
Benefactor thought aieet to Direct and appoint the Said Sum of 
one hundred pounds to be Laid out in the purchase of an aug- 
mentation to y"" maintenance of the present Rector of S* Marys 
Church in Burlington in New Jersey and his Successors Rectors 
of that Church for Ever, And further directed that the said Sum 
of one hundred pounds be, by the Exer, of y® Donor aforesaid, 
paid into the hands of Mrs. Catharine Bovey to be by her to- 
gether with the advice and Assistance of the Minister Church 
wardens and Vestry men of said S* Marys Laid out for y® use 
aforesaid, AxD WHEREAS the sd Jolin Talbot by Certain good and 
Sufficient Conveyances in y*^ Law stands Lawfully seized in Fee 
Simple of a Certain Messuage and sundry Lotts of Land scituate 
Lying & being in the Town and Town bounds of Burlington 
aforesd, to wit. One messuage and Lot of Land containing Two 
Acres and half an acre of Land ifronting on the east Side of Sec- 
ond Street and west from High Street and is in breadth between 
land formerly belonging to Jonathan ffox and Walter Humphrey 
Twenty one perches & Ten foot. Also one other Lot of Land 
adjoyning to y® aforesd Lot containing Twenty three perches^ 
Also one other Lot of Land Ifronting broad Street on the 
South and bounded on y*^ west by the Second Street west from 
high Street begins at John Antrums, alias by Land formerly 
William Myres by the said Second Street and runs in length by 
the sd street South and by east ninteen perches & twelve foot 
to the corner of broad Street, then by broad Street Eastward 
thirteen perches & a half to Paul Watkinson's Lot, thence North- 
ward by Said Lot and parallel to the Second Street ninteen 
perches and Twelve foot thence westward by said Myres Land 
to the place first mentioned which said Lot is Supposed to be or 
contain one acre & three quarters of an Acre of Land. AisB 
also all that Tract of Land Situate and being in the Town 
bounds of Burlington and according to y® Survey thereof is thus 
bounded beginning at a corner mark't oak by Land formerly 
Edward Hunlock Deceas'd, Thence west South west three chain 
thence South five chain unto a corner by Thomas Wrights Land 
thence west and by North along the said W^rights Land unto a 
corner markt oak by the same thence South west unto a birth 



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HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



creek, thence west Xorth west Twenty four chain and a half along 
Said creek unto the Land formerly Said Hunlock to a corner 
market oak thence J^orth East & by East to a Corner markt black 
oak by Land formerly George Hutchinsons Dec'd thence South 
East along the Said Hutchinsons Land and onward to the first 
mentioned corner or place of beginning which Said Last men- 
tioned tract of Land is Supposed to contain within the Limits 
afores'd at Least Two hundred Acres. Now tpiis Indextuee 
WITNESSETH, that the said John Talbot for the great Regard he 
hath for the promotion of true and Orthodox Religion Xtian 
knowledge and advancement of piety, not only to Labour him- 
self in the ffaithfull Discharge of his ministerial fPunction but 
also to add Some part of what God of his bounty bestowed upon 
him for the Obtaining of the good Ends and purposes aforesd, As 
also for and in Consideration of the Said Sum of one hundred 
pounds Bequeathed as aforesd and to him the said John Talbot 
well and truly in hand paid by y® aforesaid Mrs. Catherine 
Bovey as likewise for the Sum of five shillings to him the said 
John Talbot in hand paid by Joseph ^yhite and John Allen 
both of the Town of Burlington and province aforesaid Gent, 
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged and himself there- 
w*^ fully Satisfied and paid and thereof and of every part thereof 
for himself and his Successors his and their heirs Exec'rs and 
Adm'rs Doth acquit Release and discharge as well the Said Mrs. 
Catherine Bovey her Exec'rs and Adm'rs of and from the 
aforesd Legacy as also the said Joseph White and John Allen 
and their respective heirs Exec'rs and Adm'rs for ever by these 
presents, Hath given granted Sold released and Confirmed and 
by these presents doth fully clearly and Absolutely give grant 
Sell release convey and Confirm unto the Said Joseph White and 
John Allen present Church wardens of the parish of S' Marys 
Church aforesd and unto their Successors in trust for the use- 
hereafter in and by these presents to be declared the aforesaid 
Messuage and all and Singular the said Lotts and Tract of Land 
as they Stand butted and bounded Limitted and above Described 
in the Town of Burlington and within the boundaries thereof: 
Together with all and all manner of houses out houses barns 
Stables Orchards Gardens fences and improvements whatsoever 



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183 



as also the mines minerals ways waters wood under woods fishing 
fowling hunting hawking hereditamants & app^tenances what- 
soever unto the said messuage Tract of Land and every of the 
above mentioned Lotts of ground belonging or in any wise ap- 
pertaining and the Reversion and reversions Remainder and 
remainders rents issues and profits thereof, with all the estate 
right Title property Claim and Demand whatsoever of him the 
said John Talbot his heirs or Assigns of in to or out of the Same. 

To HAVE AXD TO HOLD the Said Messuage Tract and Lotts 
of land as aforesaid, with all rights members and appur- 
tenances unto them the sd Joseph White and John Allen and 
their Successors to the use and behoof of him the Said John 
Talbot present Rector of S^ Marys church aforesaid Daring his 
natural Life, and after his Decease to the use benefit and behoof 
of a Presbyter of the Church of England as by Law now estab- 
lished that hath received Episcopal Ordination and is admitted 
into the Cure of S' Marys Church at Burlington by the appro- 
bation of at Least one Church Warden and the major part of 
the Vestry men of the Church afores'^ Signified under their hands 
and Seals (or appointed minister for y® said Church by the 
Bishop) and Such presbyter afores"^ that doth comply with 
reading and performing of Divine Service and other Duties in 
the Said Church according to the Lyturgie of the Church of 
England as is now appointed upon the Lords days Holy days 
and other Set days for Divine worship Set forth in the Book, En- 
tituled, the Book of Common prayer and Administracon of the 
Sacraments and being so admitted and Conforming to and Com- 
plying with the Rubricks and Canons of the Church of England 
as aforesaid, that Such incumbent Shall, after Such admission into 
the Cure aforesaid, upon Easter day or Whit Sunday or upon 
the munday immediately following either of the ifeast days that 
shall happen to be after every Such admission in y® Cure afores*^ 
after Divine Service is Ended in the fPore noon publickly before 
the Congregation with an audible Voice read the thirty nine 
Articles of the Church of England as they are now Set forth 
according to Sundry Acts of parliament in the Book of Common 
prayer and publickly Testifie his assent and Consent to all and 
every of them, and thereunto Subscribing his name in the said 



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Common prayer Book, belonging to the Said Church. That 
Such Incumbent being so qualified ordained admitted in manner 
aforesaid (and not before nor otherwise) shall may or is hereby 
intitled to the possession of the aforesaid Settlement, and be en- 
abled to take and receive the rents issues and profits of the 
hereby granted or mentioned and intended to be granted Land 
Messuage and Sundry Lotts aforesaid, according to the purport 
and Design of the proprietor of the aforesaid Legacy, and the 
true intent and meaning of these presents. 

And now to the End that the above rented premises and 
every part and parcell thereof may be established Vested and 
Settled unto the said John Talbot during his natural Life and 
after his Decease to the use and behoof of the next minister 
being admitted as aforesaid and So Successively, the said John 
Talbot for himself his Exe'rs and Adm'rs Doth by these pres- 
ents Covenant promise grant and agree to and with the said 
Joseph White and John Allen and their respective Successors 
that at the Time of the Ensealing and Delivery hereof he hath 
good right full and absolute authority to grant Enffeof and 
Confirm the Same in manner and form as above Expressed to the 
use aforesaid or to any other use whatsoever without any Con- 
dition matter or thing heretofore made or Created to any person 
or persons whatsoever to alter change Defeat Determine or make 
void the Same : But that the aforesaid Messuage Tract of Land 
and Lotts aforesaid with their and every of their appurtenances 
now are and so from time to time and at all Times forever here- 
after shall be, remain, and Continue to the uses intents and 
purposes aforesd, and to no other use Limitation or intent what- 
soever Clearly acquitted Exonorated and Discharged of all and 
all manner of former and other gifts, grants. Bargains, Sales 
Joyntures Dowrys Entailes charges troubles or incumbran- 
ces whatsoever. 

AxD Lastly that the said John Talbot his heirs and Assigns 
and all and every person or persons Claiming or to claim any 
Lawfull Estate Right Title or interest of in to or out of the 
hereby granted premises or any part or parcell thereof by from 
or under or in Trust for him or them shall and will from Time 
to time at all times hereafter upon the request and at the cost 



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185 



and charges in Law of the said Joseph White and John Allen 
and their Successors Church Wardens of the Church aforesaid 
make do acknowledge and Execute or cause or procure to 
be made done acknowledged & executed all and every Such 
further and other Lawfull and reasonable acts matters and things 
Conveyances and assurances in Law whatsoever for the further 
better & more perfect assuring and Conveying of the premises 
hereby granted and Conveyed or meant menconed or intended 
so to be & every part and parcell thereof with their and every 
of their appurtenances unto the said Joseph White and John 
Allen and their Successors as afs"^ To the uses and intents 
aforesd according to the purport true intent and meaning of these 
presents, as by the said Joseph White and John Allen or their 
Successors or their or any of their Counsell Learned in the 
Law Shall be reasonably Devised or advised & required, So as 
the party or parties required to do and Execute the same be not 
Compelled or Compellable to go or Travell above Tenn miles 
from his or their places of abode for the making and Executing 
of such further assurances, and So as the same do not Contain 
or Extend unto any further warranty than against him the said 
John Talbot his Exec's or Assigns. 

In Testimony whereof the party first mentioned in this 
p'sent Indenture hath here unto Set his hand and Seal, this 
thirteenth day of July in y® Year of our Lord one Thousand 
Seven Hundred Twenty and fPour 1724 




[L. S.]t 



t No seal is now on this instrument. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



"Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us: 
" Tho^ Hunloke John Holbrooke 

" George Willis Rowland Ellis 

"Burlington July 13"^ 1724 Received of M^'^ Catherine 
Bovey the within mention'd Legacy of one hundred pounds a& 
also of Mess""^ Joseph White and John Allen the Sum of five 
shillings in full of y^ Consideration money for the within 
granted Premises 

" pr John Talbot 
" Recorded in the Publick Records in y® Sec'rys Office at 
Burlington in Book H fol. 22^ &c. 

" Personally came before me John Allen Esq"", one of the 
Judges of the Supreme Court for the province of New Jersey^ 
Rowland Ellis one of the Evidences to the within written Deed, 
upon his Solemn Oath doth declare that he was present and Saw 
the within Grantor Sign & Seal the within lustrum* and Deliver 
the same as his own Act and Deed for the uses therein men- 
tioned and that he saw the other Subscribing Witnesses write ' 
their names as Evidences thereto 
"Sworn the 24 of December 1745 

" Before me 

"Jis^^: Allen." 

" SO^IE OF THESE NONJUEIXG CLERGYMEN PRETEND TO THE 
OFFICE OF BISHOPS." 

Sir William Keith to the Bishop of London . Extract. 

" Philadelphia, July 24, 1724. 
* " It seems to me necessary further to acquaint your 

Lordship that the management of Christ Church in Phila"" is in 
the hands of a Vestry and the Churchwardens. * * I am 
for peace sake obliged to be passive in things which are both 
indecent and disorderly, such as suffering some of the Clerg}"- 
men to read prayers and preach without mentioning the King, 
Prince, and Royal Family according to the rubrick. * * 
It is confidently reported here that some of these nonjuring 
Clergymen pretend to the authority and office of Bishops in the 
Church which however they do not own and I believe will not 
dare to practice for I have publickly declared my resolution to 
prosecute with effect all those who either in doctrine or conver- 
sation shall attempt to debauch any of the people with schisr- 
matical disloyal principles of that nature." * * 



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FURTHER RAVIXa AGAIXST TALBOT AND WELTOX. 

A Letter without a signature'\ to Rev. Dr. Bray, 

Cecil County in Maryland, July 29th, 1724. 

Rev. Sir : 

" In a former I have acquainted you with my treatment at 
Philadelphia,t how villainously and barbarously I was supplanted 
by Mr. Talbot, who has been years at Burlington in the Jerseys, 
some time Itinerant with George Keith, and very famous for 
his disaffection to the Crown. Ever since the revolution he and 
one Smith a rigid took some pains to persuade me not 

to pray for the King and Royal Family, but to say as they did, 
only the King and Prince ('tis obvious whom they mean) and 
since I was not to be wrought on, I was by their contrivance very 
unhandsomely kicktout, and in order to proselyte that province 
he, the said Talbot, supplyed the place till some honest hearts 
addressed the Governour, and he ordered the Church doors to 
be shut up, but now set open again to your late neighbour Dr. 
Welton, who I hear is lately arrived there. If more such come 
of that kidney all the clergy both in and out of the Government 
will be corrupted, and the people all seduced from their allegi- 
ance to his Majesty — there will be no need of popish priests 
and Jesuits any longer — they who should oppose and resist will 
effectually carry on and promote the Romish designs. I can't 
but wonder how my Lord Chancellor was induced to let Talbot 
when last in England have the interest of the late Archbishop 
Cant, his legacy towards sending a Bishop over into America, 
with assurance of having it for the future till one be appointed. 
I am now settled here in an easy parish well disposed people. 
I have a fine glebe and between 30 and 40,000 lbs. worth of * 
tobacco yearly ; but I fear I shall receive none this year, that 
and corn all being burnt up with the excessive drought, I am 
with all humble respects, 

"Rev. Sir, Your, &c." 



t Undoubtedly from the Eev. John Urmston, as will appear from its corres- 
pondence with the letter he wrote in June preceding. See p. 177. 

X Peter Evans, in his " Memorial to the Bishop of Lo7idon,'' says of Mr. 
Urmston : ''Ye misfortune that drove him from Carolina and other places still 
attended him, and his behaviour became such at Phila. as is not proper to be 
mensioned or allowed in any Sober Society which obliged ye Vestry to 
dismiss him." 



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3IPv. TALBOT " XEVER WOULD TAKE THE OATHS TO THE KIXG. 

Goi\ Burnet to the BisJiop of London, Extract. 

" Xew York Aug 3d 1724. 

>K * a J i^ave no cause to complain of any of tlie Mis- 
sionaries in either of mv Governments except M"" Talbot Mis- 
sionary at Barlington from the Society who never would take 
the Oaths to the King, and never prays for him by name in the 
Liturgy and yet as I am informed, he now enjoys Archbishop 
Tenisons bounty as oldest Missionary in America. It is true, 
he is seldom in Jersey when I happen to be there but avoids 
me, and goes to Philadelphia where he has always officiated in 
the same indecent manner, and has had the folly to confess to 
•some who have published it, that he is a Bishop. ^ 

"P. S. — I am informed that the present incumbent at Phila- 
delphia is D"" Welton formerly Rector of White Chapel.'"' 



^•'a bishop IX BUELIXGTOX WOULD PROMOTE THE INTEREST 
OF THE CHURCH.^^ 

Rev. Wra. Yesey io the Bishop of London. Extract. 

Xew York August 10^^ 1724. 
^ u ^j^^ Lord I humbly conceive that one Bishop 
subordinate to your Lordships authority sent over to govern the 
Church in the Continent of America and seated in Burlington 
(which is the centrej would very much promote the interest of 
the church and religion and the peace and prosperity of the 
Clergy.'' * =^ 



ME. TALBOT '^RETURNED FROM EXGLAXD TWO YEARS A&O 
IX EPISCOPAL ORDERS.'' 

Ee'c. Mr. Henderson to the Bishop of London. Extract. 

Maryland, August 16th, 1724. 
^ ]\Xr. Talbot, Minister of Barlington, returned 

from England about two years ago in Episcopal orders, though 
his orders till now of late have been kept as a great secret, and 
Dr. AYelton is arrived there about six weeks ago, as I'm cred- 
ibly informed, in the same capacity, and the people of Philadel- 



IX BURLINGTON. 



189- 



phia are so fond of him that they will have him right or wrong 
for their minister. 

" I am much afraid these gentlemen will poison the people of 
that province. I cannot see what can prevent it but the speedy 
arrival of a Bishop there, one of the same order to confront them, 
for the people will rather take confirmation from them than have 
none at all, and by that means they'll hook them into the schism. 

" I am well assured they'll get no footing in this province, 
for I dare say his Majesty King George has not subjects any- 
where in his dominions more zealously attached to him than the 
Clergy and Protestant laity here, are. 

" I question not but your Lordship in your great wisdom will 
find out some expedient to prevent the ruin that threatens the 
Church in that province. I need say no more but to beg your 
Lordship's prayers for, 

" May it please your Lordship, 

" Your most dutiful son and 

" Most obedient humble servant, 

" Jacob Hendersox." 

'^the order of prayer daily through the year." 
Mr. Talbot to the Secretary. 

Burlington, 7bris 7th, 1724. 

Rev. Sir : 

" I have been here altogether this last half-year ; I preacli 
once on Sunday morn, and Catechize or Homilize in the after- 
noon. I read the prayers of the Church, in the Church, decently, 
according to the order of Morning and Evening Prayer, daily 
through the year, and that is more than is done in any Church 
that I know, apud Americanos. I bought a house and two or 
three lots of land, adjoining to the Church-yard, and since I came- 
over last, I have settled by deed, upon St. Mary's Church at 
Burlington, a parsonage and glebe ; though there was neither 
Church, house, nor glebe, before I came, I hope there will be 
one now, for ever. I design to send the Society some account 
of the particulars of this in my next ; and this is more than any 
body has done before, that I know, of my own proper cost and 
charge ; so that I have been a good husband, to do this of my 
poverty, for I have no salary from the people. I had formerly 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



£20 per annum, wlien there was money, but now, here is neither 
money, credit, nor tobacco, nothing but a little paper coin, that 
is nothing but sorry rags, and we can hardly get them to pay 
the Clerk £10, that is allowed him by the year. We are amongst 
a set of people called Quakers, who have denied the faith, and 
are worse than infidels ; they serve no God but Mammon, and 
their own Bellies, and it is against their conscience to let the 
priest have anything, either by Law or Gospel. I have com- 
monly the Sacrament administered once a month, and at the 
great feasts two or three days together ; the number of Commu- 
nicants is uncertain, 20, 30, 40, or 50 persons. 

" There is no parochial library yet, for I never had any, from 
the Society, but I design to leave mine, and Mr. Thorogood 
Moore's, when I die, to that use ; meanwhile we want Common 
Prayer Books very much. If it please the Honourable Society, 
instead of £5, in small tracts, to let that money be laid out in 
Common Prayer Books, they would be of great use to the people 
in all parts, who can't get them here for love or money. Those 
small tracts were but of small use, for they laid up and did no 
good, and not being bound, they soon perish in the using, for it 
costs more to bind books here, than to buy them in Britain. I 
shall say but one thing more at present, which I omitted when 
I was in England, for my money was short, or else I would 
have got some Bells, which we want here very much; I don't 
mean a Ring of Bells in a Steeple, for idle fellows to make a vain 
jangling, but one good bell in the Church, that the people may 
know when to come together to worship God. I pray for you 
all, as I hope you do for 

Your most Humble Servant, 

JoHjs^ Talbot." 

PARAGRAPHS OF URMSTON's LETTER SE2sT TO THE BISHOP 

OF LOXDOX. 

Mr. Stuhhs to the Bishop of London. 

Westmer, April 16, 1725. 

'^My Lord: 

"In obedience to your Lordship's commands, just now laid 
upon me in the Cockpit, I dispatch as ordered by Sir J. Phillips, 
two paragraphs of a letter just come to hand, signed 'John 



IN" BUELINGTON. 



191 



Urmston/ aacl dated ^ Cecil County, in Maryland, 7 ber. 29tli, 
1724;' ^P. S. Mr. Talbot did me no unkindness in causing 
me to be turned out of Philadelphia to make room for himself. 
He convened all the clergy to meet, put on his robes and de- 
manded Episcopal obedience from them ; one Aviser than the 
rest refused, acquainted the Governor with the ill consequences 
thereof, the danger he would run of losing his Government, 
whereupon the Governor ordered the Church to be shut up.' 

" P. S. He is succeeded by Dr. Welton who makes a great 
noise amongst them by reason of his sufferings. He has brought 
with him to the value of £300 sterling in guns and fishing 
tackle, with divers printed copies of his famous altar-piece at 
White Chapel. He has added a scrowl with words proceeding 
out of the mouth of the Bishop of Peterborough to this effect, as 
I am told, ^ I am not he that betrayed Christ, though as ready 
to do it as ever Judas was.' I have met him since in the streets, 
but had no further conversation with him. 

Your Lordship's 
Most dutiful 

" Philip Stubbs." 

dr. aveltox, the philadelphia yestey, and goyerxor 

KEITH. 

Sh' William Keith io the Secretary S. P. G. 

''May 13, 1725. 

"Sir: 

" The notice which the Society do me the honour to give by 
your letter of 15th January, concerning Dr. Welton's charac- 
ter, shall be duly regarded by using all the means that is in my 
power to prevent the mischief which they apprehend from the 
Do.ctor's residino^ in the Government. But so long; as the 
Vestry here take upon them to be wholly independent on the 
Governor's authority, and that Clergymen may be indifferently 
called without either a license from the Bishop or Induction 
here, I hope I cannot be accountable for irregularities of that 
nature untill I am better assisted with a proper authority ; and 
if I knew where to make application without giving offence, I 



192 HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



think I have some reason to complain that the Church here is 
so much ueo'lected as that the Governor and those who are trulv 
well affected to our Sovereign Lord King George and his Royal 
Family, cannot decently attend the publick worship. The 
Bishop of London very well knows my sentiments on this mat- 
ter, and I must entreat that you will be pleased to assure the 
Society that his Majesty has not a servant in America who is 
more heartily disposed than I am to rectify abuses of this matter. 
Sir, your most obedient Humble Servant^ 

''^y. Keith." 

ACTS OF JURISDICTION OYER MISSIONARIES BY MR. TALBOT, 

UXKXOWX. 

J//'. Talbot to the Bishop of London. 

" Burlington, July 2d, 1725. 
" May it Please Your Lordship : 

" I understand by letters from some friends in England that 
I am discharo-ed the Societv for Exercisino^ Acts of Jurisdiction 
over my Brethren, the Missionaries, &c. This is very strange 
to me, for I knew nothing about it, nor any body else, in all the 
world. I could disprove it by 1,000 witnesses, but since there 
is one come home in the Richmond, Mrs. Alexander, relict of 
the Comptroller in Philadelphia, &c. (she has been many years 
a member of Christ Church,) she can give your Lordship the 
best account of the present state. As for myself, I shall not 
turn accuser of the Brethren, but this I will say, those that came 
last are not better than their fathers, and some of them have 
given occasion to a proverb of reproach, and been told to their 
faces, ' The Devil would have the Bishop of London for ordain- 
ing such fellows as you.* 

" This I take to be the most unpardonable sin, the iniquity of 
Eli's house, which the Lord said should not be purged with 
sacrifice nor offering for ever, because his sons made themselves 
vile, and he restrained them not : But, my Lord, let them be 
who they will, or what they will, to their own master they 
stand or fall, I have nothing to do with them, nor ever had, nor 
ever will. I am clear of the blood of all men, and will so keep 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



193 



myself. Let them that have the watch look oat : as your Lord- 
ship has clone me the wrong, so I hope you will do me the right, 
upon better information, to let me be in statu quo, — for indeed I 
have suffered great wrong, for no offence or fault at all, that I 
know of, a long, long penance I have done, for crimes, alas ! to 
me unknown, but God has been with me, and made all things 
work together for my good ; meanwhile I hope your Lordship 
will hear the right, and do nothing rashly, but upon your 
authority, for the edification and not for the destruction of this 
poor Church apud AmeriGanos, which has many adversaries, 
and none to help her. But this good Lady, Mrs. Alexander, if 
you»L^ Lordship please to give her audience, will give the best in- 
formation, and answer all objections that can be alleged against 
" Your most humble 

"And faithful servant, 

'•'J. Ta3.bot.'^ 

'^OUT OF QUAXTOI WITH THE SOCIETY.'^ 

3I/\ Talbot to the Secretary. 

Burlington, July 8th, 1725. 

PlEVEREXD Sie : 

Yours received March, ult., that I am out of Quantum, with 
the Society, and also a Bill, protested since that, payable to Mr. 
Graham, of £30, value received. I heard nothing of this before 
our Lady Day last jjast, therefore I have drawn a bill for three 
(quarters' salary for so long I was actually in their service at my 
proper cost and charge, in propagating the Gospel, and this is 
as much due to me, as any I have received from them. Sir, I 
desire the favour of yourself to lay the case before the Honour- 
able Board, and when they consider the thing as it is, they will 
please to pay that Bill to my worthy Friend, Mr. Thomas Torey, 
for I never .knew any board discard their officers but they paid 
them for the time being in their service, and knew nothing of 
their will and pleasure to the contrary. I remain, your most 
humble and obliged servant, 

J OHX Talbot.^^ 



194 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



THE WILL OF JEREMIAH BASS. 




" Ix THE Name of God Amex ^ 

I Jeremiah Bass of Burlington in the Province of New 
Jersey being at this time by the Good Providence of God of 
Sound mind and memory (Blessed be his Name for the 
Same) Considering Seriously the unceirtainty of this transitory 
life And those many Accidents that may disable me from setling 
that Estate that God in his mercy hath entrusted me with And 
being Sensible that in the time of Sickness and on A Death bed 
the most prepared person will have enough to doe to content- 
plate the estate he is entring into in which his Portion of 
Joy or Sorrow must ceirtainely be adjudged to him without any 
Alteration to all Eternity. 

^ I doe therefore make and declare this to be my Last will 
and testament Revokeing and Disanulling all other or former 
wills by Me made & declared. J 

Imprimus I Comit my Soule to God that Gave it and my 
body to be decently interred without any Pomp f And I doe 
ernestly desire that Great Care may be taken to prevent all 
manner of Rudeness that may be ocationed by too much Strong 
Liquor t And if there be any minister of Episcopall ordination 



J Besides the numerous offices and trusts already noticed as held bv Mr. 
Bass, he was Governor of the "Province of East New Jersey," from 1698 
to 1700. Journall of the Governour and Councill of the Province of East Nevj 
Jersey, pp. 196, 228. 

*' Att a Councill held At Perth Amboy In the Countie of Middx: the 7 th 
day of Aprill Anno Dom 1698, Jeremiah Basse, Esqr produced to this board A 
Com'ission to bee Governour and Com'ander In CheefFe of this Province of 
East New Jersey, given under the Seale of the sayd Province In London, & 
signed by the Proprietors there bearing date the 15th day of July 1697." 

— J6icZ,p. 19G_ 

J " Att A Councill Held Att Perth Amboy the 8th of Aprill 1698, [the very 
next morning, at 8 o'clk, and the first business recorded] Agreed & ordered by 
this board that A proclamation bee Issued, for All Magistrates & other oflicers 
to put the Lawes In Executione strickly Against im'oderate drinking swearing 
& other vices & the breach of the sabbath day." Ibid, p. 197, _ 

Mr. Bass was appointed Attorney General by Gov. Hunter in 1719, which 
commission was renewed by Gov. Burnet, in 1721. He died in 1725. Field's- 
Provincial Courts of New Jersey, p. 102. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



195 



Resideing in towne or easie to be bad Let a fiinerall Sermoud 
be preached from the 19 Ch. Jobe : 25 : 26 & 27. verses And 
the Psalms to be sung Part of the 103 from verse the 10^^ to the 
end & the 90 Psalm after the Xew Translation Thus my desire 
is to be buried according to the Kites and Cerimonys of the best 
of Churches the Church of England of which I profess my Selfe 
an unworthy member And in whose Communion I desire to 
die. And altho my life may not in all things and at all times 
been correspondant to the Rules of so pure and holy A Religion 
Yet I trust my Sins shall be blotted out and my pardon Sealed 
through the alone merrits and mediation of my blessed Lord 
AXD Savior Jesus Christ who as Second person in the holy 
and undivided Trinity In the begining made the AYorld And 
all those Glorious Orbs of Light that bespangle the firmament 
Who in the fulness of time after as the Devine Logos he had in 
a more perculier manner Governed the Jewish Church tooke our 
nature upon him & was borne of the Virgin Mary and being 
crusified by Pontius Pilate he raised himselfeup from the Grave 
by his owne power And on his Assention into heaven Estab- 
lished for himselfe a Kingdome in this world (which Is his 
church) altogeather independant on the Civill Majestrate in 
matters purely Spirituall and Appointed his Apostles and their 
Successors the Bishops Preists and Deacons as his officers and 
ministers of that Kingdome which he will Support & maintaine 
against all Oposition till the end of the world and Finall Judge- 
ment And that this truth may be more promulgated and taughl 
My Will and desire is that fourty Shillings Sterling per Annum 
[be paid] to some honest and worthy minister of Episcopall 
ordination More perticulerly the Rector of the Church of S* 
Marys in Burlington for the time being or if their Should be a 
Vacancy there and that Church Should not be Supplyed then 
to the minister of Christ Church in Philadelphia & their Suc- 
cessors for the preaching two sermonds anualy the one on Easter 
Sunday and the Other on AVliite Sunday for the maintainance & 
illustration of this Great Truth And for the due and punctuall 
payment of this Legacy I Charge All my Reall Estate in the 
towne of Burlington : J 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



AxD AS to my Temporal 1 Estate I will Devise and Direct 
that all my Debts wheresoever & whatsoever may with all pos- 
ible Expedition [be] daely and honestly paid and Satisfied by 
My Executrix hereinafter named And in order to Enable her to 
performe the Same I doe hereby Order will and Direct That if 
need be (As I am asured their will not be) all or any part of my 
estate either Personall or Reall Except what Shall be hereafter 
Excepted be Sold and disposed of by my said Executrix by & 
with the Consent advice and Assistance of my Son in Law M'" 
Robert Talbot My daughter Anne Bass & Mr Andrew Hamil- 
ton of Philadelphia Giveing and hereby Granting unto my said 
Executrix by and with the Advise aforesaid or any two of them 
full power and authority to Sell and dispose of my said estate 
or any part thereof Except as before Excepted and to Signe 
Scale and Execute full and absolute Conveyances for the Same 
As fully as I my Selfe now am enabled to doe. Always pro- 
vided that these Powers togeather with those as Executrix that 
she is hereby Invested with all Shall Continue So longe as She 
Shall Continue my Widdow And no longer it being my full 
intent That If She marry ag.aine her husband Shall have Noth- 
ing to doe with any more of my Estate then what I give to my 
wife. And in that Case of my wifes marrage I appoint My 
Daughters Katherin Talbot and Anne Bass and My Son 
Burchfeild Joynt Executors in the Place of my wife J 

'•And my will further is that if my lands Or Reall Estate be 
left undisposed of in the Widdowhood of my wife that it be not 
Sold except for payment of any Debts that Shall Remaine 
unsatisfied but that It be devided into three parts One part 
^Thereof I Give to my wife during her Xaturall life & the other 
two thirds or parts to be equaly devided betwixt My three 
children haveing in the Devition a Just Care to Substract so 
much out of My Daughter Katherins Share as is in proportion 
to AVhat She hath already Received Viz : The house & Lott in 
towne adjoyneing to that I live in & the fourty akers in the 
towne bounds & negro Bess And that there may be no contest 
about the said devition I will that my wife & each of my 
daughters & my son chuse each One person to See the devition 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



197 



made & That when it Is done It be put downe in Lotts and 
Xumbred and drawne by any indiferent person. 

'^And I also will that in the disposall of My Reall Estate it 
may be done in this Order first the Land Granted me by the 
Proprietors of the Easterne division of this province at Cran- 
bury brook and the Great Ponds The Remainder of my Lotts 
at Amboy Then the Lands Granted to Me by the proprietors of 
the Westerne division on Delawar Eiver with that purchased of 
Andrew Heath : Then those at Coliansie and I w^ould not have 
the house I now^ live in or the Lotts or meadows in towne Sould 
but on the Greatest emergency and with Consent of my wife 
and two daughters : 

"Item I will that my deare w'ife Elizabeth Bass who I 
hereby constitute and apoint my whole and sole Executrix 
during her AViddowhood and no longer have the posession of 
the house I Xow live in wdth the Orchards Gardens and 
Meadows in towne & sutable furniture for the Said house as 
long as she Continues my AYiddow but in case of Marriage to 
be disposed of as afore Viz One third of the Reall Estate dureing 
her life & one third of the personall Estate for Ever: 

" Item I wnll that the Estate that I have disposed to My 
children be to them and their heirs for Ever and in case any of 
them should die before a Devition be made I Will and bequeath 
their part of the Reall Estate to be equaly devided amongst the 
Surviors of two and if but one to him or her his or her heirs 
or Assignes for Ever : 

"And in Case it should So happen that all My Children 
Should die without heirs Lawfully beggotten then My will and 
Mind Is that Such part of My Reall Estate as is remaineing be 
Given to Minister Church Wardens and Vestry of the Church 
of S^ Marys in Burlington and to their Sucessors for and 
towards the Augmentation of the Liveing of the Rector of the 
said Church & the encorawment of Catechiseing: everv Wens- 
day and Fry day in Lent. 

"Item My desire Is that if it can well be Avoided My 
Library be not Sould but preserved for the use of My Sou 
Buchfeild if he inclines to Learning & aplys himselfe to the 
Study and Pracise either of Divinity Law or Phisig but in 



198 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



ease that his enclination doe not Lead him to Any of those 
Studys to be divided amongst my Children unless My Son Tal- 
bot shall incline to accept of at a Just Yallue in Leiu of so much 
of Any other part of My Estate : Always provided that my wife 
and daughter Anne have the Privilidge of Choseing what they 
like out of the books of Divinity or history or Morality on the 
same termes : 

In Testimony ^Yhereof I have set my hand & affixed 
my Scale to this Will Contained in two leaves of Paper 
and Sealed on a peace of black Ribban with My Coate 
of Arms & at the bottome of Each Sheet with my Name 
& Scale this twenty Sixth day of January in the Yeare of 
our Lord one thousand Seaven hundred and twenty fourf 

J J J 

J. Bass [l. s.] 
Signed Sealed Published and Leclared by the within Jere- 
miah Bass the Testator to be his last Will in the presence of us 

" Sam"- Bustill 
^'JoHX Allex 
^'Tho' HuxNloke" 

^' Pro : New Jersey 1 
^'Coun't Burlington j * 

"This Nineth day of August Anno: Dom: 
One thousand Seven hundred and Twenty five personally came 
before me Samuel Bustill D : Surrogate and Ordinary of the 
W^estern Division of the Province of New Jersey duly commis- 
sioned and impowered for the proving of last Wills and Testa- 
ments &c : Thomas Hunloke Esq"" One of the Witnesses above 
subscribed to this within last AVill and Testament Who on his 
solemn oaths which he took on the holy Evangelist of Almighty 
God Doth depose that he was present and saw the within named 
Jeremiah Bass sign and Seal and heard him publish pronounce 
and Declare the within written Instrument containing two sheets 
of paper to be his last Will and Testament and that at the same 
time the Testator was of sound mind and memory to the best of 
his knowledge and understanding, and that also at the same 
time, Samuel Bustill the Officer above named, and John Allen 



t The penmanship of the original Will— from which this is minutely tran- 
scribed — is very handsome. 



IN BUELINGTON. 



199 



Esq the other two subscribed witnesses were personally present 
and Signed their names as Witnesses to the within Will in the 
presence of said Testator and also that he this Deponent at the 
Same time did sign his name as a wdtness to the within written 
will containing as aforesaid^ in the presence of the Testator. 

^'Tho' Hunloke 

Sworn at Burlington 

" before me 
" Sam"^ Bustill, Surr : ^' 

" Pro : xsew Jersey 1 
" Coun^t Burlington J 

This Nineth day of August Anno : 
JJom : one thousand Seven hundred and twenty five personally 
^ippeared before me Samuel Bustill D : Surrogate and Ordinary 
of the Western Division of the province of New Jersey duly 
Commissioned and appointed M''^ Elizabeth Bass the Testatrix 
in the within Last Will and Testament named who being Sworn 
upon the holy Evangelist of Almighty God did declare that the 
w^ithin writing containing two sheets of paper is the last Will 
and Testament of her late husband Jeremiah Bass Esq^ Deceased 
as far as she knows and believes and that she will well and truly 
perform the same by paying first the Debts and then the Lega- 
cies contained in the said Will so far forth as the Goods Chattels 
and Credits of the said Dece'^ will thereunto Extend and the 
Law charge And that she will make a True and perfect inventory 
and also Bender a Just account when thereunto required 

Elizabeth Bass. 

" Sworn at Burlington 
" Before me 

Sam Bustill D. Surrg^ 

THE EFFECTS OF THE LATE HOX. J. BASS. 

A True & perfect Inventory of all & Singular The Goods 
& Chattels of Jeremiah Bass, Esq"" Late of Burlington in the 
Western Division of ye Province of New Jersey dec"^ Exclusive 
•of ye Law Books & other ye Library of ye said Jeremiah Bass, 
Taken & appraised At Burlington in November in ye year of 
our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred & Twenty five by the 
Appraisers whose names are To This Inventory & Appraise- 
ment Subscribed 



200 HISTORY OF THE CHUKCH 



Imp Cash & Apparel 

f sc oz pwt gr 

Item Plate 9 14.. 6.. 11. 9 at 6 | 10} 

It Tea Spoons &c 



£40.. 10. 

59.. 10, 
1.. 7. 



IN THE GREAT PARLOUR. 

It 2 Oval Tables &c Tea Table £ 3.. — . 

It. 2 Great Pictures & 22 Small do 8.. — . 

It. A Clock 12.. — . 

A Looking Glass 3.. — . 

14 Chairs 3.. 12. 

6 Drinking Glasses 2 Decanters ] 

A Salt 3 Tea potts 8 China Dishes V 

& Saucers one Earthen Disli j 

4 Cheney Basons 1 pr Candlesticks 2., — .. 

2 Sconces, 2 Babes Tea Cupps \ 

Tumbler &c ( 

1 pr Andirons & a fender a Chimney 1 

Cloth r — .. 10., 



£ 32.. 2. 



1 Oval Table 
1 Large Picture 
6 Chairs 

5 Fowling Pieces 



IN THE HALL. 



£ .. 12 
3. — 
— 12.. 

5 — 



9.. 4. 



IN THE LITTLE PARLOUR. 



It. 



1 Dressing Table 4 Chairs a Couch \ 
1 Stand i 
1 Large Earthen Jarr 2 Small do 
1 Brass Shovel & Tongs 1 pr | 
Andirons & fenders J 
1 Scruton 

1 Book frame 

17 Pictures 1 pr Hand Screws )^ 
& Chimney Cloth J 

2 Sconces 2 Looking Glasses 1 
& Earthen Cupps / 

A Clock 

1 Bed & furniture 

1 Black Cabinett 5 Chairs 1 Close Stool 
9 Small Looking Glasses & 7 pictures 



-.. 5.. — 

-.. 12.. — 
2.. 10.. — 
2.. 6. 

1.. 10.. — 



16.. 



4.. 



1.. 10.. 



10... 10. 



IN THE MIDDLE CHAMBER. 



1 Bed & furniture & window Curtains 
1 Looking Glass 
8 Chairs 2 Stands 
1 Silver Watch 

4 Large Pictures 11 Small do 2 Mapps 

1 Cabinett 

2 Stools 1 pine Table 2 Sm Glasses 

8 China Cuj^s 4 Saucers 2 Glass Cups 
1 Brass Shovel & Tongs 1 pair of \ 
Andirons ( 



14.. 
1.. 
1.. 
3.. 



10.. 
10.. 



10.. — .. — 
— .. 15.. — 



10.. 



IX BURLTXGTOX 



20i 



1.. 

— .. 12.. 
5.. — .. 



THE GREAT CHAMBER. 

1 Bed & furniture 7.. — .. 

1 Small do _ ^ 4.. — .. 

6 Chairs 1 Dressinsr Glass 1.. 5.. 

6 Gilded Pictures " 2.. — .. 

1 old iron hearth — .. 7.. 

15 Small pictures 8 old Prints 1.. — .. 

3 Cups 2 Jarrs 1 SuUibub Cup 

1 Teapott 1 pepper box T — .. 4.. 

1 Pine Table & Table Cloth — .. 6.. 

IX THE GARRET, 

4J dozen Diaper & Damask Xapk : 2.. 14.. 

5 Diaper Table Cloths 2.. 10.. 

6 pr of Sheets 4.. 10.. 

4 pr Pillow biers - — .. 12.. 

12 Towels 

3 Holland Table Cloths 
1 Bedd furniture 

1 Bottle Case 1 pole & lumber — -.. 5.. — 

IX YE KITCHEX. 

16 Pewter dishes 4 Dozen Plates ] 

2 Pewter Eims 1 Cullender [ 7.. 10.. — 

1 Bason 1 Monteth J 

2 large brass kettles 4.. 10.. — 
2 Small do 5.. — 

2 Iron Potts 1 brass pott 1 bell 1 

Mettle Skillet j — . 1.. — 

1 Teakettle 1 frving pan — .. 6.. — 

1 Jack 2 Spitts' 2.. 10.. — 

3 pr brass Candlesticks 1 pr Snuflers — .. 10.. 

1 pepper box 3 brass Candlesticks — .. 13. — 

2 Warming pans a standing ~) 

Candlesticks / „ 1.5. — 
1 pr Andirons 2 pr Pot tracks 

1 Gridiron 1.. 10.. — 
1 Trebitts 1 pr Tongs & fire Shovel 

1 Bellows — .. C. — 

1 Small Still 1 Iron Chaffen dish 2.. — .. — 
1 Tin Candlestick 1 flower box ") 

1 pepper box j — 2.. — 
1 Box Iron & heaters 1 Dutch 1 

box iron / .. 8.. — 
1 Tinn Water pott 1 Lignumvite ^ 

Pestle & Mortar / 6.. — 

Two Tables 1 Dog Trough .. 10.. — 

4 Chairs 1 Stool .. 3.. — 
1 Dozen of knives & forks ") 

1 Meet fork / . _.. s.. — 

1 Dripping Pan 7 Small 1 

Chaffen dishes / — .. 7.. — 



16. 



- 10.. 



6.. 17 



40. 14. 



£299. 12. 3 



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18.. — 
.. 12.. — 

.. 2.. — £1. 12. — 



£301.. 4. 3 
appraised by us 

Asher Clayton 
Tho : Hunloke 
" Pro : New Jersey ss. )^ 

J " Be it remembered That on this present 
Tenth day of June Anno Dom. one Thousand seven hundred & 
twenty seven personally came & appeared before Samuel Bustill 
D Register of ye Western Division of ye Province of New 
Jersey Asher Clayton & Thomas Hunloke Esq, the appraisers 
of ye within Inventory who on their Solemn Oath, which they 
took on ye Holy Evangelist of Almighty God do depose that 
ye Goods & Chattels in ye within Inventory Sett down & speci- 
fied are Appraised according to their True Respective valines 
according to the best of their judgmt & understanding & that 
-they appraised all things That Came To Their view. 

^' Sworn at Burlington " Asher Claytox 

Coram me '^Tho: Hunloke 

^'Sam^ Bustill 

■^^Pro : New Jersey ss. 1 

J Be it remembered that on This present 
Tenth day of June Anno Dom : 1727 p^sonally came & appraised 
before me Samuel Bustill D Register of ye Western Division of 
ye Province of New Jersey Elizabeth Bass Executrix of ye Last 
will & Testament of Jeremiah Bass Late of Burlington in the 
Western Division of ye Province of New Jersey Esq Dec'^ who 
on her solemn oath which she took on ye holy Evangelist of 
Almighty God doth depose that ye within writing contains a 
true & perfect Inventory of all & singular ye goods & chattels 
<fec of ye said Dec"^ so far forth as hath come to her knowledge 
or view or to ye possession or knowledge of any other p'son or 
p'sons for her use exclusive, of ye Law Books & other ye 
Library of ye said Dece'^ 

Sworn at Burlington Elizabeth Bass. 

before me 

" Sam"-"- Bustill 
''D EegrJ' 



To some pen knives Buttons ] 
Seals & Sundry other [ 
odd little Things in |" 
2 Little DraAvers J 

10 Case Bottles & 8 other ) 
Bottles. The Case Bottles 
2 quarts each j 

8 Small Bottles at 2 | 



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203 



NO MINISTER TO PERFORM DIVINE SERVICE. 

Jf^ Ellis to the Secretary. Extract. 

Burlington, Sept^ 21, 1725. 

Reverend Sir 

I have nothing to add saving the poor Church here is 

destitute, here is no minister to perform divine service, neither 
have we had any these 5 or 6 month's, none has preached in the 
Church since M'' Talbot who was required to desist by his Ex- 
cellency the Governor of this Province, there is a pretty Church 
and a large congregation and great pity its they be left destitute 
and perish through Faaiine | of the word | and go astray like 
sheep without a Sheppard. I humbly beg pardon for this 
digression and leave to subscribe myself Reverend Sir 
Your most humble &c 

Rowland Ellis." 

the church doors daily shut up. 
The Churchwardens of Burlington to the Governor. 

"November 4th, 1725. 
Since your Excellency has been pleased to order, that the 
Rev. Mr. Talbot should surcease officiating in this Church, it 
heartily grieves me to see the doors thereof daily shut up ; but 
we humbly beg leave to acknowledge your Excellency's favour, 
and repeated willingness to assist and join with us in this affair. 
The hurry of country business that w^ould not admit of our 
members to meet together, prevented our addressing your Excel- 
lency sooner, but we crave leave to acquaint your Excellency, 
that as it is our unhappiness to be without a Minister, we humbly 
hope for your Excellency's favourable countenance and good 
offices to obtain what is so expedient and necessary for the 
interest of our Holy Religion and the best of Churches, of which 
w^e acknowledge ourselves unworthy members. 
" We are, &c., 

" Rowland Ellis, and others." 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



DR. WELTON COMMANDED UPON HIS ALLEGIANCE TO RETURN 
TO GREAT BRITAIN. 

Sir Wm. Keith to the Lord Bishop of London. 

Philadelphia, April 8th, 1726. 

" My Lord, 

^' I am glad to acknowledge the great honour your Lordship t 
was pleased to do me by your Letter dated last June which I 
received some time ago, and am glad that by your Lordship's 
great care I can now answer it so effectually as to acquaint you 
that I have by this conveyance returned an authentic Certificate 
into my Lord Townsend's office, of Dr. Wei ton's having been 
duly served with his Majesty's Writ of Privy Seal, commanding 
him upon his allegiance to return to Great Britain forthwith ; 



f A letter, from the Eev. John Berriman of London, to the Rev. Samuel 
Johnson, missionary in Connecticut, dated Feb. 17th, 1725, has the following 
paragraph ; " We hear of two Nonjuring Bishops (Dr. Welton for one) who 
are gone into America ; and it is said the Bishop of London will send one or 
more of a different stamp as an antidote against them. God Almighty prevent 
the bad effects of the one, and in his due time accomplish the other." Beards- 
ley's Life of Johnson, p, 55. 

Your memorialist, as one of the [Philadelphia] Vestry, humbly begs leave 
to give your Lordship a true information of the said Vestry's conduct towards 
Dr. Welton, who at his arrival there, about June, 1724, was a stranger, and his 
coming altogether unknown to every of them. The circumstances of the Clmrcli 
there being not a little melancholy at that time, for that being destitute of a 
Minister no Divine Service had been performed there for some months before, 
and a numerous congregation which if kept together were not only able but 
willing to raise a handsome support for a Missionary wliich was daily ex- 
pected from your Lordship. 

" But the Church doors being shut, it was evident the congregation would 
soon dwindle, and be captivated among the many Dissenting Teachers in that 
groAving city, and render them unable to perform their promises to your Lord- 
ship. To prevent which inconvenience several members of the Vestry met, 
and being well assured by some persons of the Doctor's acquaintance, that he 
was esteemed an orthodox minister, and it appearing by several Engiisli 
printed newspapei's that the Doctor had there lately taken the oaths, and con- 
formed to the Government, but had been deprived of his living, several mem- 
bers of the Vestry asked the Doctor to officiate until such time as they were 
favoured with a Missionary from your Lordship, which he readily granted, 
and the Church doors were opened, and for that reason, and from the charac- 
ter of the Doctor's preaching, the congregation resorted to hear him, 

''Your memorialist hopes your Lordship will be induced to believe their 
zeal for the Church (and not for any mistaken principles of the Doctor's) was 
the true cause of their frequenting the Church. Your memorialist, from his 
knowledge of and acquaintance with the people there for twenty-two years 
past, does believe it a piece of injustice to insinuate them as disaffected to his 
Ma;jesty, for your memorialist well knows that every member of the Vestry 
and all others of the congregation to whom it was tendered have conformed, 
to the Laws, and given all the proofs of their Loyalty to his Majesty that is. 
in their power. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



205 



in pursuance of which Order, the Doctor did us the favour about 
4 weeks ago to depart for Europe by the way of Lisbon, so that 
I doubt not but your Lordship will now more easily find a way 
to supply this Church with a suitable Incumbent, and as the 
people's hopes are generally placed on your Lordship's pious 
care for that purpose, I am fully persuaded that any Gentleman 
who comes over recommended by your Lordship will be hand- 
somely received. >j< >k * 

" My Lord, Your Lordship's most 
" faithful & most devoted 
" humble Servant, 

''^Y. Keith." 

THE NOX-JUEORS DISAGREED AMONG THEMSELVES. 

Commissary Wilkinson to the Bishop of London. Extract. 

'■^ Chester River, in Queen Ann's County, 
Maryland, June 15, 1726. 
I understood Dr. Welton has left Philadelphia and is gone 
for Lisbon. t He and the rest of the non-jurors disagreed very 



'" Bur for his and tlieir defence against the information of Sir William 
Keith, your memorialist begs leave (and he hopes in case of self-defence and 
preservation he may be allowed) to observe to your Lordship that Sir William 
Keith has not been so happy in his conduct, or sincere in his relations as to 
acquire undoubted credit, as appears from the following Paragraph (taken 
out of the Lords' proceedings against him for being concerned in the Scottish 
conspiracy Anno 1703), viz, : ' It was declared by the Lords, spiritual and 
temporal, in Parliament assembled, that Mr. William Keith (upon his exami- 
nation by the Lords appointed to examine him by this House) hath prevari- 
cated with this House, and by liis behaviour dotli not seem an object Avorthy 
of his Majesty's mercy.' 

" Your memorialist humbly be^s leave to observe to your Lordship in vin- 
dication of himself and the said A^'estry, that the said Sir William has for some 
years been elected member of the said Vestry, but taking upon him to overrule 
them, and entirely depriving them of the freedom justly due, he was left out 
of the Vestry in the time of Mr. Yicary, the last settled Missionary amongst 
ns from your Lordship's predecessors, which was about three years ago, and 
from that time seemed displeased with the Vestry, and withdrew his subscrip- 
tion from Mr. Vicary, to whom the Vestry shewed all due regard." Peter 
Evan^ Jlemorial. 

t "Lisbon, Aug. 31, 1726, N. S. 
" One Wilton a non-juring clergyman, who some time ago arrived here 
from Philadelphia, died of a dropsy, refusing to commune Avith the English 
clergyman. 

" After his death among his things were found an episcopal seal which he 
had made use of in Pensilvania, whereas, he assumed & exercised privily & 



206 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



much among themselves, insomuch that they avoided one 
another's company. Mr. Talbot and Mr. Smith (who also 
differ very much in their sentiments of submission to our estab- 
lished Government) have been with us in Maryland. They 
behaved themselves very modestly, avoided talking very much, 
and resolved to submit quietly to the orders sent from England 
to prohibit their public officiating in any of the Churches, or to 
set up separate meetings. "f 

THE S. P. G. ALLOW THE EEV. JOHX HOLBEOOK TO EEMOVE 
TO BUELIXGTOX. 

Holbrooke to the Secretary. Extract. 

Salem Xew ^Y. Jersey Sept^ 28, 1726. 

^' Reyeeexd Sie 

I received yours of March 15^ 1725 wherein I am acquainted 
that the Honorable Society have allowed me to remove from 



Ly stealth the character & fanctions of a Bishop. This coming to the know- 
ledge of the Privy Council he was ordered home but came to Portugal 

"X. B. [by HearneJ This is ihe famous Dr. AVehon, minister at White 
Cliappel, who suffered much for his honesty (Jacobitism) & was, it seems, a 
Bishop, & is now removed from the malice of all his enemies." Beliquice 
HerniancB, Voh II, lo. 257. 

t "The venerable prelate, who was so long our Presiding Bishop, [Et. Rev 
"\Vm. White, D. D. of Pennsylvania] was accustomed to relate a story which he 
heard from his elder brethren, when he Avas but a youth. The story Avas 
this : A gentleman who had been ordained amou^- tlie Congregationalists of 
!Xew England, [Mr. Whittlesey of Counecticru ] .naps Wallingford, says 
The Churchman' s Magazine, Vol. V, p. 40,] ana who had officiated among 
them as a minister for many years, at length to the surprise of his friends, 
began to express doubts about the validity of his ordination, and manifested 
no small trouble of mind on the subject. Suddenly about the time of the 
arrival of Talbot and AVelton, he left home without declaring the place of his 
destination or purpose of his journey. After an interval of a few weeks he 
returned, and gave no further information of his movements than that he had 
been to some of the Southern Colonies : he also said on his return that lie w^is 
now perfectly satisfied with his ordination, and from that day never manifested 
the least solicitude on the subject, but continued until he died to preach to his 
congregation. It was soon whispered by those whose curiosity here found 
material^ for its exercise, that the minister had been on a visit to the non- 
juring bishops, and obtained ordination from one of them. He never said so ; 
but among Churchmen it was believed that stich was the fact." Haivks' His- 
tory of the Church in Marylo/nd, p. 185, 



IN BURLINGTON. 



207 



Salem f to Burliagton for which Instance of their favor I re- 
tarn my humble thanks But finding that the people of Burling- 
ton do not appear so desirous of a Missionary as the poor people 
among whom I am, do of my continuance with them, I choose 
to continue among the people of Salem, though with the hazard 
of being troubled with the Autum sickness, and do humbly 
presume that the Society will allow and approve of it. Eeligion 
as professed by our Church indeed Sir makes but a poor figure 
in this and the neighbouring province which is in a manner 
eclipsed by quakerism ; the Missionary's in these Country's may 
be said to be under the same conflict Paul was at Ephesus, 
and with respect to these in particular. I find that of M^ Ditton 
true I vizt | that Christianity being now the same religion it 
was formerly there is the same Enmity in the world still against 
it as ever which would produce the very same effects it formerly 
did, if he who stills the raging Sea, and bridles the fury and 
madness of the people, did not set bounds to it by his wise all 
governing providence." 

IMPORTUNITIES IX FAVOUR OF MR. TALBOT. HE IS UNIVER- 
SALLY BELOVED. 

B,ev. Archibald Cummings to the Bishop of London Exti^act. 

Philadelphia, October 19th, 1726. 

" My Lord : 

I have been here so short a time that all the account I can 
give of the place as yet is, that the soil and clime seem to be 
better and more regular than the temper of the people ; how- 
ever, I have been very well received by those of any note, and 
am in a particular manner obliged to Mr. Moore, our Collector ;. 
he is a sober and pious man, and has all along endeavoured to 
support the Church, in opposition both to Welton's and the 
principles of the other Schisraaticks and Sectaries, which are 
indeed here very numerous. I hope in a little time, by proper 

t In the report of the S. P. G. for 1725-6, we find that the Eev. Nathaniel 
Horwood was appointed to succeed Eev. Mr. Holbrook, at Salem, on the 
latt^r's removal to Burlington. 



208 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



and moderate methods, to cancel all the bad impressions the 
angry Doctor had given of his successor. Your Lordship will 
observe by his favourite sermon, printed here, in what a scurri- 
lous manner he falls foul upon all the Clergy of the present 
Establishment, charging the people that as they tendered their 
salvation not to receive but reject any that should be sent among 
them. He is now in Lisbon ; ^tis well if he ben't got into the 
Convent. I ha'nt seen all the Clergy of this province as yet, 
but have heard a good character of them all. I have been 
importuned by numbers of people from Burlington and by 
some of this province to write to your Lordship in favour of 
Dr. Talbot ; they made me promise to mention him, otherwise 
I would not presume to do it. He is universally beloved, even 
by the Dissenters here, and has done a great deal of good. Wel- 
ton and he had differed and broke off" correspondence, by reason 
of the rash chimerical projects of the former long before the 
Government took notice of them. If he were connived at and 
could be assisted by the Society {for I am told the old man's 
circumstances are very mean), he promises by his friends to be 
peaceable and easy, and to do all the good he can for the future." 

^^THE GREATEST ADVOCATE FOR THE CHURCH THAT EVER 
APPEARED OX THIS SHORE." 

Memorial to the S. P. G., from Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 

[Without date, received Jan. 20th, 1726.] 

Sheweth : 

That the melancholy circumstance of the Church of Eng- 
land in these Colonies, is a subject, we hope, worthy, not only 
your compassion, but tender regard, having not above one Min- 
ister to seven or eight Churches or Congregations, and we 
bemoan our case, when we behold so many Churches, lately 
built, lie as desolate around us, convincing arguments of our 
affection for the Church, and of our great misfortune in being 
destitute of pastors. When at the same time we daily see Dis- 
senters of all denominations, continually supplied, and increase, 



IX BURLINGTON. 



209 



through this, our misfortuue, and upbraid us with this defectc 
It iS; therefore, with the utmost concern, ^Ye express our iinhap- 
piness, when we view our circumstances rather decline than 
flourish. In particular, that Mr. Talbot, who for nigh thirtr 
years past, has behaved himself with indefatigable pains, and 
good success in his Ministry^ among us, under your Honour's 
care, has by some late conduct (nowise privy to us), rendered 
himself disagreeable to his superiors and departed from us. ^Ve 
cannot, without violence to the principles of our Eeligion, ap- 
prove of any acts, or give in to any measures inconsistent with 
our duty and Loyalty to his Majesty, whom God long preserve ; 
yet in gratitude to this unhappy Gentleman, we humbly beg 
leave to say, that by his exemplary life and ministry, he has 
been the greatest advocate for the Church of England, by Law 
Established, that ever appeared on this shore. This unhappy 
accident, together with the death and removal of some other 
clergymen from us, has very much increased the cause of our 
complaint, and we have no other recourse but to your Honours 
for relief. Having well-grounded hopes, the same good spirit 
which prompted you to undertake the glorious work of propa- 
gating the Gospel in foreign parts will continue your pious re- 
gards to these Colonies, and the rather, since so many stately 
monuments are erected for God's service, testifying our sincere 
willingness to embrace your charitable assistance, and to answer 
the glorious ends you have in view. 

Therefore, your petitioners most humbly beg your Honour- 
able Society will please to extend your wonted charity and 
necessary supply to the several Churches and Congregations, of 
which partictilar accounts are hereto annexed. 

" And your Petitioners, as in Duty bound, 
"Shall ever pray," &c. 
" Christ Church, Philadelphia. 

" Samuel Hasell, ] i j 

" Robert Boltox, / Chnrclmardem. 

" Thomas Lawbexce, Charles Read, ^ -r^ 
" Thomas Fextox, Bexjami:^ Moegax, | A'ZycZrch 
" James Tuthill, Thomas Tresse, f Uii istVtiurcti, 
" Thomas Leech, James Bingham, J P'^'^'^ddphia. 

o 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Thomas Polgreeii, Thomas Chase, William Fraser, Robert 
Ashetoii, George Plumly, Arthur Oliver, Daniel Harrison, John 
Brooks, Henry Dexter, John Orton, John Knowles, George 
Meall, R. Asheton. 

^'aS'^. James' Church in New Bristol. 

'^JoHN Abraham Dexormaxdie, . 
-F.Gaudouett, [Church 
-JoHxX Allen, ^wardens. 

St. Mary^s Church at Burlington. 

RoAVLAND Ellis, 1 , , 
" Jo.N-ATHAX LovETT, / Chuvchioavdem. 

" Peter Bard, Samuel Bustill, Richard Allison, James Gould, 
' John Dagworthy, F. Bo\yes, James Trent, Jacob Baillergeau, 
Edward R. Price, William Cutler, Thomas Fosgate, James 
Thompson, Anthony Elton, Simon Nightingale, Thomas Shreen, 
Thomas Hunloke, Geor2:e Willis." 



THE PARISH DISPERSED, AND VERY COLD. 

Idr. Horwood to the S. P. G. Extract. 

'^Burlington April 28, 1727. 
''My Lords and Gentlemen 

" May it please you to know that J * * 

got to Salem in January where I found M"" Holbrooke fixt & 
resolved to stay, what to do in a strange country I knew not but 
returning to Philadelphia, consulted with M"" Cummings who 
* thought it advisable to go to Burlington where M"" 

Holbr(s)ok had been appointed. These movements I hope will 
not be displeasing to your Honors, since the only expedient 
thought left. If the Society in their great wisdom & goodness 
approve of the proceedings I shall always endeavour (by the 
grace assistance & blessing of God) so to demean myself, in roy 
sacred function and the gracious mission as may in some measure 
deserve flieir future favours & countenance in the meantime 
wait your further orders & commands. M'' Talbot is here. I 
found the church very much dispersed but shall spare no pains 
prayers or endeavours to reunite them. I found the Inhabi- 



IN BURLINGTON. 211 



tants very cold having but very lately brought them to a small 
subscription, so that if the Honble Society shall in their good- 
ness think fit to continue the additional £10 per ann^ which 
vou were pleased to order me when appointed for Salem, it 
would be very agreeable most gratefully received or if your 
Honors shall think fit to remand me to Salem or otherwise it 
shall be most readily complied with. * * The Mis- 
sionarv's Library would be a great assistance to the place. M'' 
Talbot says he has none nor ever had only a Bible Common 
Praver Book & a single Book of Homilies, so that the place 

is at present destitute of that advantage. 

" Your most Obed' & devoted 

^' Nath"^ Hoewood." 

death of the eev. johx talbot. 
The "American Weddy Ilei^ury;' for Nov. 23-30, 1727, 
published in Philadelphia, has the following : " Philadelphia, 
November 30th, 1727. Yesterday, died at Burlington, the Rev- 
erend Mr. John Talbot, formerly Minister of that Place, who 
was a Pious good man, and much lamented.'' 

THE CHAEACTEE AXD DEEDS OF JOHX TALBOT. 

Afttr his consecration, as we have seen, M"" Talbot officiated, 
with Burlington as headquarters, for nearly two years before 
D"" AVelton — the other nonjuring bishop — arrived in America. 
What Episcopal acts, if any, either of them may have performed, 
is not definitively known. Welton was of such a different 
spirit from Talbot, that they soon ''avoided one another's com- 
pany." The Government became alarmed at the existence, in 
the colonies, of an Episcopate independent of both the Church 
and State of the realm. Welton was " served with his Majesty's 
AVrit of Privy Seal, commanding him upon his allegiance to 
return to Great Britain forthwith." Talbot was " discharged " 
the service of the S. P. G., and ordered, through the Governor, 
to " surcease officiating." Both obeyed, but not with the same 
submission. 

To one who reads thoughtfully the preceding pages, there can 
be no doubt, but that in receiving consecration in the way that 



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lie did, M"" Talbot was actuated by the purest desire to advance 
the real interests of the Church. 

^' In the history of the diocese of New Jersey/' wrote the 
late Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks, many years ago, " M'' Talbot's 
character and deeds will find a conspicuous place ; it is enough 
for our present purpose to remark, that the Society never had, 
at least in our view, a more honest, fearless and laborious 
missionary." f 

ST. Mary's church minutely described. 
il/r. Honvood to the Secretary. Extract. 



April 22°^ 1728 



'^MosT Honor'd Sir 

^'The Church of S^ Mary's at Burlington, was built 

about the year 1703 by the privy contributions of the Parish 
and County adjoining with abundance of other pious, & goodly 
dispos'd Persons, among which the extraordinary zeal & liberality 
of Gov"" Nicholson, will always most gratefully be acknowledged 
by Burlington ; as to the materials of the Church, it is a fair 
fabrick erected of Brick, the dimensions 40 foot in Length, in 
Breadth 22, very decently seated, with regular Pews, below, 
and a fair Gallery above at the West end. Endowment as yet 
none, no Salary to the Minister, except some small subscriptions, 
which being very low, are readily enough subscribed, but with 
difficulty, if ever collected, there is a House belonging to the 
Minister with a little orchard, & small, {illegible in ITS.^ belong- 
ing to it which M^ Talbot, who is now dead, returned, & which I 
have not taken Possession of till further Orders from theSocieJ:y. 

" 2""^ The number of Inhabitants f rst frequenting the place 
was very small, it being a Woody Country their Chief Employ 
& business, was each to get a Little Spot of Land & to clear 

t In the new St. Mary's Chnrcli, on the Korth side of the sacrarium, in the 
double lancet window, on a band in the stained glass, is this inscription : 



IN MEMOPIAM 

Hujus Ecclesm Fundatoris, 



Rev. lohannis Talbot, A. M. 
A. D. MDCCIII 



IN BURLINGTON. 



213 



it <fe to build a Little Cote & so in process of time associating 
together hath built a pleasant and regular Town but the main 
body of Town and Country adjoining are Quakers ; there being 
now not above 40 families belonging to the Church in the Town 
& thereabout, but they are Industrious in their respective Trade 
and occupation, but Philadelphia lying so near has swallowed 
up their Trade and commerce very much ; but still their Coun- 
try w^ants for Inhabitants, to make it a glorious Country. 

"There is no other church within 14 or 15 Miles for the 
Inhabitants to resort unto, in the Winter also very difficult to 
attend by reason of rivers. 

" 3"^ There are two meeting Houses (are seldom or never used) 
of Quakers of whom there are great numbers and have found 
great Encouragement from the Late Assemblies, there are few 
other Dissenters or Independants if any as to the Quakers Teach- 
ers their number is uncertain, there being more or less as they by 
their [illegible in MSJ\ think themselves inspired, they pretend 
(if to be Credited) no maintainance allowed for them. 

ii^th xhere are two Schools, one settled by the pious and 
HtJn''^® Society kept by the Missionary M"" Rowland Ellis, a 
person of application & Industry & highly qualified for the 
Employ but the number of the Church Children being few in 
comparison of the Quakers (who in course give him no encour- 
agement) having set up a school of their own, is not so numer- 
ous as it could be wishM. 

u 5th rj^YiQ Donations that have been made to the Church are 
a very handsome set of Plate for the Communion Table, by the 
late Queen Anne, of most pious memory & others, with decent 
furniture, by the said Queen for the Communion Table and 
Pulpit. The benefactions to the Minister and Schoolmaster is 
what Their Honors the pious and most Christian Society has 
been Graciously Pleas'd to settle, there is no Library (as I in- 
formed in my last to the Society, but since have found a Cata- 
logue in the Register Book of 197 Books signed a Catalogue of 
books, belonging to Burlington Library revis'd by M"" John 
Talbot Incumbent and Mich : Piper (formerly Schoolmaster) 
the 25* of March 1719. Now these said Books I have made a 
demand it is not in M"" Talbots own hand nor signed by him, 



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but in Piper's, so that the Widow of jNP Talbot denies &ny 
such matter ; and therefore I know not what to do but shall wait 
the Directions of the Society in a matter of such Consequence. 

" 6^^ There are no large Plaaitations here about, so that the 
Substance of the Inhabitants does consist in Negro Slaves but 
in trade, they keeping only AVhite Servants generally, and they 
few that keep IN'egroes not above one to a Family who are per- 
suaded. Since my abode here to send them to Church on Sab- 
bath days and attend Instructions in order to their being 
baptized which that they may all in time come in and embrace 
Christianity shall be the Prayers and most constant endeavours 
of Your most Devoted Servant and Missionary 

" Nath' Hoe WOOD." 



*j Since the preceding pages left the press, the MS. book,, 
mentioned in the Preface, as having been seen many years ago., 
has come to light ; from which we give the folloAving : 

BURLINGTON CHURCH 
BOOKE 

Anno Dom : 

1702—1703— 



C Nathaniell Westlaxd ^ 
Mes""' < Hugh Huddy V Wardens. 

I Robert heeler J 

BENEFACTORS. 

1702 £ 5 ' 
Octobr His Excellency Coll: Nicholson Govr of 

Virginia 37 10 — - 

More Sent by Coll : Quarye in doUers 6 — — 

More by Ms' Bill on Mr Basse 5 — - 



48 10 

Octobr The Honble Sr Thomas Lawrence Secreta : 

of Mary Ld o — — 

XathanielMVestland 20 — — 

Hugh Huddr 20 — — 

Eobert Wheler 20 — — 

Joseph Adams paid by Mr Bass 21 11 — 



IN BURLIXGTON. 



215 



1702 

Xbr 
1702 
March 

1703 
Marcli 

March 

May— 



Mav— 
MaV— 
May 
June — 



July— 
22 Aucr : 



1704 
May 



1705 
Jany 25 



CHURCH BENEFACTORS. 

Nicholas Martino allowed in Avork. 

Jacob Perkins Senr paid Tho : 
hrick lad ' 



'Will : Fisher paid Tho : Kendall brick 
laver 



giyen him 

Will: Fisher, pa: 
Coo;ell Carter 



pounds 

William Bustin paid N alh : Westland. 
Daniell Sutton paid Xath : Westland... 
John Ham ell paid Eobt Wheeler 



Abraham Hewlings forty shill : 

]\Iichaell Xewbolt 

Robert Person 

Eobert Hickman 

Hugh Lowden Scotchman 

Samuell Oldale SOs 

Mary ] 

A collection at opning our church St Anne j 

A J- 

My Lord Cornbury our Goyr being | 
present j 

John Scott a Merchant 

Thomas Brock to X: Martino Joyner 

William Hewlings 

Margarett Hunlock 

Daniell Leeds 

Abraham Hewlings more 

Thomas Wood 

Andrew Smith 

James Bingham 

Roger Parkes 

John Ward 

Henry Marley 



John Roberds. 
(jeorge Willis. 



price of ye bell. 



£ 


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10 






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15 



SUBSCRIPTION. 

The honrble Colin Richd Ingoldsby Lt 

goyrr 

[Signed] Rich : Ingoldesby 



paid Tho : Reyell Esqr pr Mr Wheeler 

[Signed] Tho : Revell 

paid Jer : Bass Esqr 

[Signed] J. Bass 



30 






20 


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20 







216 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Benefactors page 1 
page 2 
page 5 

Contribution?, page 3 



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137: 


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.£112: 


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3 



BEXEFACTOES. 
ATT PHILADELPHIA IXHABITANTS & STRANGERS 



James Lowring ' 1 — — 

Xich : Churcliill 1 — — ■ 

Capt Eoacli 3 — — 

Thomas Tress 2 — — 

Kalph Wardd — IS — 

Doctr Graham ' 1 3 — 

Benj : Godfrey ; 2 10 — 

Capt Jones ' 1 — — 

Coll. Quarye 5 — — 

^ Wm: Trent 5 — --- 

Jos : Carpinter 6 — — 

John Bewiev 3 — — 

Charles Bead 1 — — 

DoctrWmHall 11 11 6 

MrPackston 2 — — 

Tho: Pert 1 — — 

Peter Paquenett 2 — — 

Madam Tench 3 — — 

Bobert Grace ' 2 — — 

Bobt. Packe : 1 — — 

Leo: LofFtis 1 — — 

Wm. Poole 1 — 

,57 2 6 

Mr. Myls Minister of Boston ' 12 10 



•69 12 6 

1702 DISBURSEMEXTS. 



Decembr 
5 

Xbr 19 

1703 

March 

6 Aprill 
May 

June 



Paid Nich : Martinio his first payment as 
by articles of agreement for Joyn: & 
Carp: work 

Paid by Xath : Westland & Bobt. Wheler ] 
their two thirds of thirty thousand I 
good merchantable bricks to Hugh T 
^ Huddy .J 

Paid Tho : Kendell bricklayer by Perkins 
& Fisher 

Paid Eich : Dell for draweing bricks & Sand 

Ealph Cogell Carter Becd : bv his b 
W: Fisher 

By paid Nicholas Martino in Cash 

By paid W : & J : Hollinshead for church 
lott 

By Spent at Signeing deed with acknow' 
ledging 



50 




20 




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b 


10 
IS 


3 
50 




20 






4 



IN BURLINGTON. 



217 



1702 
Ociobr 
March 
May 

May 
May 
June 



By Paid Peter Dell the foundation stones... 

By paid Lime from Philad : 13 bush : 

By paid Lane and Cogell Carters to 5th "j 

July as by Mr, Wheelers acct for >■ 

bricks, lime, stones, sand J 

Paid a Debt upon buriall grownd.. 

Paid for 58000 bricks 

Paid for bushels of lime 

Paid for this book : 

Paid Thomas Kendell bricklayer 

Paid at raising the church roof. 

Paid Sundry Small disbursments 

Paid Mich: Martino his 3d payment 

Paid John Gilbert for lime & boat hire 

Paid John Rowland for bricks 

Paid Barnard Lane Cartige for lime, brick, 

sand 

Paid for Earth to Levell the church 

Pd Eichd tfennimore for his flatt, to lime 

& stone , 

Paid Eichd Dell for church lock , 



NATHANIELL WESTLAXD DEBITT. 

To his Subscription mony. | 20 

To Eecd : of Mr. Talbott minister 

To Eecd: of "Wm. tisher to make upp 10 

pounds 

To Eecd : of Wm._ Bustill— Cash 

To Eecd : of Daniell Sutton — Cash 

To Eecd: of Jacob Perkins Senior Cash. 

To Eecd : Samuell Oldale 

To Eecd : in beef of William Budd 

To Eecd : of Thomas Midleton for buryingj 

gro^vnd 

-To Eecd : Doctor Eoberds , 



1704 — 4111 June — By a Collection at church, 



Jan'y the 17th due to X W £17-9-6 which 
sum was pd him ^Ir- Eobt. Wheeler 



To Eeceiyed of Mr. Miles Minister of 
Boston , 



1702 

Decembr 
5 



29 

6 A prill 
May 



COXTRA CREDITT 

By this book yallewd att 

By his 3d part of 50s to Nich : Martino "] 

to make upp the first paymt of 50 > 

pounds J 

By his 3d part of 30000 good bricks paid ) 

to Hugh Huddy | 

By paid Eich : Deii for dravveing bricks & 

Sand 

By paid John Hollinshead in part of 

Church Lott 



6 
1 


6 


6 


10 






5 
58 




4 


3 


18 




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1 
1 


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15 
10 


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10 


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10 
15 




9 


7 
15 




20 
4 


4 


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5 
2 
1 
1 


10 

10 
2 
10 






4 
_ 




6 


— 


42 
2 


02 

8 


4 


17 


9 


6 


61 


19 


10 


12 


10 





74 
£ 
00 


09 
s 
18 


10 

d 


00 


16 


8 


10 


_ 






18 




10 







2.18 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



J line 
19 July 

1704 

Aprill 
10 May- 
June — 



17 Xovbr 



1702 
Octobr 

1703 
22 Aug. 



1704 
3 Sept— 

10 Sept 
24 Sept 



By paid Xich : Martino in Cash 

By paid Isich : Martino to make iipp 



£15 by Doctor Eoberts 48s Pr [is. 



Resnire 32s J \ 

By paid Thomas Kendell as by book i 

By Sondry Small disbursments 

By buriall grownd in Debt to him 

By Charg of H Hd lime, watredg, Cowpredg, 

Cartage j 

By a great book to Regester, Mariag : Chris :! 

bnrialls ! 

By heading a hogshead of lime & hoop 

By paid Dan: vSmiths man 4 Bush : hare...; 

By paid Tho : Kendell as by ray book | 

By paid John Wethrall two bushels of hare; 
By Spent on Rich ^Slurry here & Philad:... 
By 2 gall : linseed oyle, Murry, fFenimore, 

6 lbs Spanish brown 

2 lbs Red Leade 

Paid on Richard Murry the painter his 

acct. to the Smith 

Paid ]S^ich : Martino for Joyners work 



By Cash paid Hugh Huddy 

By Cash paid Mr. Wheeler 

By A Bosse 

By a Quietus on Joseph Addams Estate. 
By Due on Acct which is upon Ballance....' 



HUGH HUDDY DEBITT. 

To his Subscription mony 

To mrs Margaret Hunlocks Subscription... 

To buriall ground Subscription 

To Cash Reed : of Nath : Westland 

To Cash Reed : of Robt Wheeler 

To Cash of Robt Hickman 

To Reed : of Hugh Lowdon.... 

To Cash gatherd at opning the church my ) 



Lord Cornbury was present J 

To Cash Reed of John Scott..... 

To Received of mr Wheelers buriall ground 

Subscription 

To Cash of Thomas Peache — not in sub 

To Cash by Cider of John Tomkins... 

To 5 bush wheat for Edmon Stuart 

To wheat of Robert Eaton wallew 

To Cash Reed: of Dr Hall 

To more Cash Reed : of Dr Hall 

To Cash of Govr Xicholson , 

To Cash Reed : by a collecton at church 



To Cash Reed: by a collection at church.... 

To Cash by a Collection 

To Mrs Mary Hunlock's Subscription 




IN BURLINGTON. 



219' 



ffebrj 14th 
18 



1702 

Decerabr — 
5— 



Jan'ry tlie 17tli due to H H £31—3—4 
To Cash more of Tho : Peachee. 

To Cash of mr Wheeler 

To Cash of Nath : Westland 

To Cash when the Sacrament was admin- 
istred 



The Ballance being 8 : 
carved over to folio 29 



CONTRA CREDITT. 

Bv his 3d part of 50s to Nich : Martino ) 
to make iipp the first paymt of 50£.. / 

By paid to Mr Revell the buriall ground 
acct 

By Spent on Peter Dell 

By paid Tho Kendell brick layer 

By paid for lime as by Eeceipt 

By paid N : Martino the Carpinter 

By paid for 42100 bricks 

By Spent at raiseing the church roof 

By 16000 bricks more 

By paid Will : flennimore on Kendells acct 

By paid John Fisher on Kendells acct 

By paid Tho : Kendell 

By nailes &ct 

By Eecording the Deed of church Lott 

By paid Cogell Carter for 6 Load Sand 

By two load bricks from water side 

By carting 8000 bricks from the kill 

By Cash paid the Lime man 

By hinges paid for mr Martino 221b at 14cZ 

Bv Cash paid mr Wheeler 

By Cash Pd Sam : Kimbell for 4000 laths.. 

By 9000 navies for the Plaistrer 

By 3000 bricks more 

By paid Shatterwaits ferriedg to Philad„.. 

By 1411) nayles at 18d a pownd 

By spent on Rich : Murry Sundry times — 

By paid the Lime man by Dr Hall 

By paid for lime in town & cash 12s in all 



01 I 




00 IG 



— i 3 



1702 
Octobr 



By Intrest due for fifty pownds. 

By paid N Martino.. 

By paid for lime 

By pd fFenimore os 25 B : lime. 



ROBERT WHELER DEBITT. 



To his Subscription mony 

To Received of Abraham Hewlings. 
To Reed: of John Ham ell 



180 ! 18 



£ 

20 
2 
5 



09 
d 



•220 



HISTOEY OF THE CHUECH 



1702 £ s d 

Octobr To Eecd : of Micliaell Xewbolt 4 — — 

To Eecd : for 70 bricks & 2 bush : lime 6 — 

To Eecd : of Eobert Peersou 3 — — 

To his Subscription to buriall grewnd 1 — — 

To his Eeceiving of AVilliana Hewlings 10 — — 

To Eecd : of Abraham Hewlings„ 1 -5 — 

To Eecd: Daniell Leeds 7 — — 

To Eecd: of Thomas Wood 2 — — 

To Eecd : of AndrcAV Smith 2 10 — 

To Eecd : of James Bingham 5 — — 

To Eecd : of Eoger Parks „ 2 10 — 

To Eecd : of Doctor Hall 9 ,9 — 

To Eecd: of Hugh Huddv 13 IS — 

To Eecd: of John Ward.' 10 — — 

To Eecd : of Henry Marley 1 10 — 

To Eecd : of Doctor Cox Junr 7 19 3 

To Eecd : Abraham Browne Senr 2 — — 

To Will: Budd Senr Eecd 1 16 6 

To Eecd : Danll Deeds „ 3 — — 

To Eecd : Josh : Xewbolt 4 — — 

To Eecd : John LonffstafF. „ 15 — 

1704 To Eecd : for lime,..'^ 1 3 

SSept: Due to Mr AVheeler for Ballance 27 6 3 

147 16 3 

Posted to folio the 29i:h 

By omission in a former acct \ £ s d 

Due from Mr Wheeler / 4-. 0; 6 

to compleat the 50£ bond 



1702 

Decembr 

•5 — 
Xber 19 

Mav 



•June 



COXTRA CEEDITX. 

£ s 

By his 3d part of dOs to ]S'ich: Martino \ | 

to make upp the first paymt of 50£... / 00 1 16 
Bv his 3d part of 30000 good bricks paid ") i 

to Hugh Huddy....r.. j 10 — 

By paid John Hollinshead for church Lott 10 — 
By spent at Signeing deed & acknowledge- 

ing,..., — 4 

By paid Peter Dell for the foundation stones 6 : — 
By spent in drink Sondry times on the men — 
By paid Darby Green for 13 bush : of lime 1 \ 

hogshead & charg from Philadelphia / i 1 
By paid Ealph Cogell Carlege for bri-cks, ) 

lime stones & Sand — / 3 

By paid Barnard Lane Carteg for bricks 1^ 

lime, stones & sand.,..- j 7 

By Nicholas Martino part of his 2d paymt 15 — — 
By his payeing Mr Huddy his buriall grownd 

Subscription 1 — — 

By Thomas Ivendell paid 11 17 11 

By paid John Gilbert for lime & boat hire.. 1 15 10 
By John Eowland for bricks — paid him.... 1 
Bv paid Barnt Lane haling bricks, lime & 

Sand '. ' 3 

By paid 5 days work for Earth throwing to 

Levell church — 15 — 



10 



02 



12 



17 
15 
10 

10 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



22/1 



1702 _ _ £ s d 

June Ev Eichard ffennimore bringing stones & 

lime 9 7 — 

Ey jjaid 2s icholas Martino his 3d payment., 48 10 — 

By paid Eichard Dell for the Church Lock — 15 — 
By paid E : Lane & Cogell Cartag lime 

bricks lume 1 12 — 

Eagly Hill boatng for lime — 15 , — 

Enmsy 221 days Fisher 7 days ^vork, 5 12 ■ — 

paid at Philad:- 10 Bush : lime.... — 16 . 8 

paid Peter iiretTvell for hare — 8 6 

paid a Cowper heading & hooi)ing cask — 3 i 4 

paid Tho: Eaper the Smith 12 ^vindow 

barrs — 14 ' — 

paid for a laborer two days — 7 — 

Paid Samuell Terret Smith for a great 

Casement 1 16 — 

Irons for the Sun dyall 1 S 6 

Hooks, hinges, Staple for Bellirye door...... — 8 4 



COLLECTIONS AT CHUECH. 

, _ - o ) a Collection at opneing Burlington Church ^ 

' f > when mv Lord Cornbury our Govr - 

° ) -was present J 

1704 \ a Collection on AVhit Sunday at the Ad- ^ 

4 June / ministring the Holy Sacrement of - 

the Lords Supper J 

3 Sept — a Collection at church Eecd : of Mr Huddy.. 

10 Sept : — a Collection Eecd. by Mr Huddy 

24 Sept: a Collection Eecd, by Mr Huddy 

18 lebr — a Collection on shrove Sunday at the Ad-"] 

ministring the holv Sacrament Eecd. ' 

bvMr Huddr J 



147 


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d 


11 


14 







16 




4 


12 


6 


5 


17 






IS 





OF TTHICH DISBmSED. 

£ .? d 

22 Aug Mr Hugh Huddy had the first being 11 14 5 

4 June Isaih : AVestland laid out for bread 6: wine.. 



w 



X. "Westland paid the Sexton John Eumsye — 



ROBERT WHEELER IS DR. 

1704-5 

To soe much reed of Abraham Hulings 00 15 

To soe much re<?d of John Bartley 02 02 

To so much of Judg Mompesson the hand 

of mr Tolbot 05 00 



07 17 

To Cash reed of James Bingham for his 

firiend 02 00 

To Cash of ve 'Widdoe LansfstafF. 03 15 

To Cash of Joseph White,.. 03 00 

To Cash of mr George Booth ^ mr Tolbut 02 00 
To Cash of Colin IXickollson Jer : Bass 

esqr 05 00 

Eects on acct of ye bell vit 



-222 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



1704-5 £^ 5 d 

To Cash Danll Leed ' 001 : 00 00 

To Cashof Jos:Xewbold 001 00 00 

To Cash of James Croftte 000 0*) 00 

To Cash of Wm Bustill..... 000 10 00 

To Cash of Danll Sutton 000 05 00 

ToCashof Abra:Hewlm^s 000 04 i 00 

To Cashof MiehllNewboid 000 ' 10 00 

To Cash of Robt. "Wheeler 001 00 00 

£04: 15: 00 

28 I 07 i 00 

To Cash of John Hamill 5th 05 00 00 

To Cash of AVm Eevoll being Monevs Lent 100 00 00 

Mav 27th ' i 

170-5 To Cash at A Comunion 006 04 

To Cash of George Gleave Junr by Mr 00 

Eevell ; 010 00 

To mv part of the pew 003 00 ' 

Decembr To Cash Eecd at A Comnnion 002 00 •) 

i25th To Eecd of George AVills moneys wch | i 

he reed of Severell people on the Acct V ' 001 OS 

of the Bell J 

, 155 19 ^ 

Janrv To Eeceived ^ George Willis Subscription 010 ' 00 ' 

25 * To Cash reed of Mr Westland 02 i 12 '> 

168 12 

May 20th To Cash reed of Tho : Eevell esqr 20 00 

! ]^gg 

To Cash reed of Abra : Hewlings ' 001 j 00 , 

To Cash for W Bustele & Ab Hulings seat..! 03 ! 10 , 

To Cash for Daniel Leeds his seat ! 03 | 10 ; 

To Cash to make upp £50 bond page 24 4 — 6 

i 200 12 6 

PER CONTRA IS CREDITOR. 

£ .3 d 

By 2ft| Nailes ' ' 2 10 

By 6s 10 paid to Ealpli Cougili for Loom and 

Wood 6 10 

By 6^ 10s paid Nicholas Martenew for 

work 6 10 

By 1/ 17s 6cZ paid for Lime 1 17 6 

By OS Pd Seth Hill for bringing up of Lime 5 



By somuch folio the 24th 27 6 3 

'36 8,5 

By disbursmts on acct of a bell 13 12 11 

By moneys pd Thoinas 'Kendell 11 00 00 

i 61 01 04 

Bv paid Thomas Kendall for Plaistering.... 00 ; 03 08 

By paid Mr Hugh Huddv 13 OS ' 10 

By paid Jonathan Lovett for Girtweb 00 04 00 

By paid Thomas Clerk for Burning posts... 00 04 06 



IX BUKLIXGTOX. 



223 



By paid Thomas Clerk for making the gates 
By paid Bernard Lane for hailing Timber.. 

By paid Nicholas Martine-w 

By paid for A Staple and Lock for the gate 
By paid James Shatterthwait for Glassing.. 
By paid James Allen for fetching Stones... 
BvjDaid for a hhd of Lime and Other Charges 

By 48rb of Spikes and 6m ofXailes 

By paid the Labourers to Serve Thomas 

Kendall 

By paid John Smith fFor Leather for the 

BelL... 

By paid Bernard Lane for 150 of Bricks 1 

and hailing Timber and stones j 

By paid Margarett Clark for 2 Cushins 

By paid for Oyle and Collers 

By paid John Woolston for Ceader Boards.. 

By paid for the Bell Eoape 

By paid John Doson for fetching stones 

By paid Seth Hill for fetching stones 

By paid Tho : Eaper for Iron 

By paid Samll Territt for Iron 

By paid AVill the Sawyer for Sawing 

~By paid ISTordick ye Ingeneer 

By pd Thomas Clark for being Clark 

By pd a Man for Sawing one Day 

deduct 27 : 6 : 3 above 



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00 


16 


10 


01 


15 


00 


41 


15 


04 


00 


03 


00 


05 


18 


09 


00 


14 


00 


01 


10 


06 


05 


05 


00 


00 


18 


00 


00 


04 


00 


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18 


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02 


03 


00 


00 


00 


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202 


16 


11 



HUGH HUDDY IS DR. 







008 


10 


4 




To Cash reed of Thomas Eevell esqr on )^ 












001 


00 









000 


10 







To Cash of Wm Bavlev 


000 


06 







To Cash of Tho : Peechee 


000 


05 







To Cash of Eichd Dell 


000 


06 







To Cash of Hugh Huddv 


001 


00 







To Cash of Captn Allison 


000 


10 









12 


07 


4 




Apli ve 8th To Cash reed at a Sacramt 


03 


12 


5 




To Cash of mr Westland on acct of ye Bell 


001 


00 











19 


9 




To Cash reed at a Collection May the 20th 












03 


05 


2 


1705 




20 


04 


11 


June 2d 


To Cash of mr Eobt Wheeler 


13 


08 


10 






33 


13 


9 


ZSTovbr 4th 




003 


12 


5 


1705 




003 


00 


00 



224 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Novbr 4th 
1705 



Janrv 14tli 
1705-6 



Janry 27th 
Mrch 24 

June 28 



1704 

July 18 th 



1705 



To cash Reed of John Ward Snpscription 
to the Bell 

To cash Reed of 8amll Terrett Subscription 
to the Bell 



To cash reed of Jer: Bass esqr in pt of his 
bond 

To cash Received of Nathaniell Westland 
esqr , 

To cash Received of Madm Hamilton for 
her half part of the North East C 
ner Pew 

To cash received at ye Comunion 



for] 
I'or- y 



To cash reed at ye Comunion | 

To cash to receive of Geo : Roscarrick i 



To cash reed of mr Bass on bond \fth 
Interest , i 



Ballance due this 3d Aug : 1706. 



CONTRA IS CREDITOR. 



To cash pd towards the Bell , 

To cash pd Dr Hall for fixeing Sd Bell 

'?ac , 

To 221b nayles pd Samll Kemble abt ye 

fenceing 

To 12£ cash pd Samll Kemble for fence- 

ing-. 



To 131Tj| nayles more to Kemble 

To cash pd Kemble more as ^ his bill 

To navies to Tho : Clark abt the gate 21b... 



CREDITER. 

To cash pd Bernard Lane for 300 of\ 
Bricks & haleing j 

To moneys spent at the Reiseing of the 
Tower 

To 500 of bricks and hailing 

To Cash paid Samll Territt 

To Cash paid Kordick ye Ingeneer 

To Cash paid Negroe Sawyer 

To Cash paid Thomas Clerk 3£ 

To pd for hailing A Logg to the Church.... 



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18 


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18 


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33 


13 


09 


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08 


10 


000 


12 


08 


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13 


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005 


04 


05 


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00 


11 


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17 


05 


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00 


00 


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03 


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IX BURLINGTON. 



225 



1705 



Jaiiry 16 



Memd 



the 100£ 
due to mr 
Revill is 
paid by mr 
Wheeler 



To cash paid Obediah Jerton , 002 i 

To Sundry Expences 

To Eopes and Blocks New 

To cash pd John Ward for his fflatt lialein 

stones 000 



To the Tower 2^ Xailes 2.s 6c^ 

To paid for Washing the Surj)les 

To cash paid Tho: Clark 40 | 8 being in \ 

full of his to this Ester j 

To pd mr Martinew 04 



To pd for Bred & Wine 

To 5 galls of Tarr & 1 Cagg 
To cash pd mr Martinew 



for. 



To cash paid Eichd firancis 



£4: 



05 
17 



01 



49 : 



burles'CtTon august the Gth 1706. 



Then by examination of this Book 

weefinde due to Hugh Huddy sum of. 

wee finde due to Eobert Wheeler 

wee finde due to Eobert Wlieeler on bond "| 
a fifty pounds borrowed to ye use of ^ 
ye Church j 

wee find due to Thomas Eevell esqr on 
bond one hundred pounds borrowed 
to ye use of ye Church , 



Soe we find ye Church Idebted. 







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10 


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Testifved bv us Tho : Eevell 1 t t ? 

- ' -P > church vxtraens 

Daniel Leeds j 

Nathll Westland 

Egbert Wheeler 

Hu Huddy. 



Memd 



one years Interest of ye above sd bonds to 
mr Wheler and mr Eevell is pd 



to the church — ROBERT WHEELER DEBET. 



1708 

Bass & Wheeler 
Wheeler & 
hulings 
AVheeler 
& Wilis 



To ye over plosli of Colecksion Last year.., 
To ye over plosh of ye Last years accont.... 
To ye over plosh of ye Last years accent..., 
Eecd William Budd & Abraham Hulings \^ 
by the ballance of there account 1710 j 
William Budd & Abraham Hul lings by 
the ballance of their Account paid to 

mr Eobert Wheeler 1711 

Mr Eobert Wheeler & Georg-e Willis bv 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



MR. HOBERT WHEELER IS CREDITOR. 



By paid Tho : Kendall for 6 days & half | 
work Abt the Tower j 

By Sundry Expenses Avith the Work men... 

By Cash paid Obediah Jerton and Wra."^ 
White for Sawing Weather bords for 1- 
the Tower J 

By Cash paid Thomas Scattergood for "j 
two Loggs to be Sawn into Wether [ 
bords „ J 



By paid George Willis as "f* his bill o{\ 
peticulars Amounting to the Sum of / 

By Cash paid Richard ffrancis & Samuell ^ 
Territ for makeing Stock and Wheel >■ 
pr to the bell j 

By Cash paid Samuell Territ for Iron ) 
Work for ye bell / 

By A Logg Sawed into boards for the Towei 

By Cash paid Samll Carpenter for boards.., 

By Cash paid Bernard Lane for hailing 1^ 
bricks & boards j 

By Cash paid for Oyle and Collers for the 
Tower 

By 261b Xails for the Tower at loci ft 

By Cash pd Martinew 



by more cash pd X Martino 

by 25 pound nayls for the Tower 

by a spring lock for the Tower door. 



Page 28 Mr. Wheeler is Debiti 
od Aug: 170G — Due to Mr. Wheeler Ballance. 



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The underwritten is a true Coppy of Doctr John Eoberdes 
his receipt for one half of a Pew in the Church. 

9ber 5th 

1706 Eecd of Mr. Danll Leeds the full Sum of Two pounds Six 

Shillings & Ten pence being full & Ample satisfaction 
for the one half of a Pew Erected in St. Anns Church 
in Burlington, I say Eecd by me 

John Eoberdes 

Vera Copa : Examined by me 
Tho: Eevell 



1707 

14 A prill 



Being Easter Monday Mr. Eobert AVheeler 
& Mr. Jeremiah Bass were Elected 



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227 



Churchwardens for Burlington church 

Mr. Thomas Eevell & Mr. Daniell 

Leeds then gave upp thier accounts and 

paid Mr. AYheeler the Sum of fourteen £ s d 

pounds two shillings ten pence in Cash 14 2 10 

Testifyed by us 

KoBEET Wheeler 

Xath: Westlaxd 

WiELIAIM BUDD 

George AVillis 

at Same lime vras delivered upp vritli this 
Book live deeds belonging to the 
ground within fence with the Church 

Kobert AVheeler paid the aforesaid 14-2-10 
Yiz to the Clark 10£ for Intrest 4£- 
0-0 to other disburstments 2s-10d for 
the Church Use 14 2 10 

1708 Being Easter Monday Mr. Eobert Wheeler 

& Abraham Hulings was Elected 
Churchwarden? 

1709 Being Ester Monday Mr. Eobert Wheeler 

& George Willis was Elected Church- 
wardens 

1710 Being Ester Monday Mr. William Budd & 

Abraham Hulings Avas Elected Church- 
wardings 

1711 Being Ester Monday Mr. Robert Wheeler 

& William Budd was Elected Church- 
wardings 

LAUS DEO 

AXXO DOMIXI 1713 

Jeremiah Bass ^ r-i i ? 
Emaxuell Smith / ^^^^^^^<^^^^^^^dens. 

CHURCH STOCK IS CR. 

Aprill 7th Easter Tuesday By moneys Collected at the 

Sacrament 

12 By moneys Collected at the doore 

19 By moneys Collected at the doore 

May 3 By moneys Colled at the doore & Sacrament 

E. Smith 

May 10th By moneys Collected at the doore ' 

May 17 By moneys Collected at the doore 

May 24 By moneys Collected at the doore & Sacre-; 

Whitsunday ment being WhitSunday ! 

25 By moneys Collected at the Sacrament ' 

31 By moneys Collected at the doore 

By moneys Received of Mr. Attorney Gen- 

erall by orders on Mr. Wheeler & Cutler [ lUe- i bie in MS.] 

June 14 By moneys Collected at the doore 8 \ 10 

July otJi By moneys Collected at the doore 5 1 11^^ 

July 12 By moneys Collected at the doore 4 

July 19 By moneys Collected at the Sacrament 10 i 4 

July 20 By moneys Eecd at the doore 5 , 4 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Aug 2a 
Aug 23d 
Sept 2S 



Bv moneys E-ecd at the doore. 
Bj moneys Kecd at the doore. 
By moneys Reed at the doore. 



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LAUS DEO 
ANNO DOMINI 1713 



1713 
May 17 

May 23 
June 27th 



July 6 
8ber 19 



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PER CONTRA DR. 

By moneys paid George Wilhouse for ex- 
pences on Easter monday & Wine since 
for the Sacrament ' 

By moneys paid Wm Cede for the main- 
tainance of Mr Talbots man Philep 

By moneys paid Margaret Clarke for 
Cleaning the Church Washing Sur- 
plices &c. , 

By moneys paid for a New Common Prayer 
book 2 English Crowne pounds 

By moneys paid Philip Mr Talbots man 
when he Went from this towne 

By moneys paid Margaret Clarke for Clean- 
ing the Church washing Surplis &c 

By moneys paid for the mending & make- 
ing up the fence of her Lott 

By moneys paid Cutler by Mr Attorny 
Generalls order 

By ditto paid him my selfe 

By money paid Mr Jolly for worke done in 
the Church & Church yard 

By money j)aid Eevell Elton for worke 
done at the Scoole house 

By moneys paid Mr Hews order of Mr 
Talbot 

Paid Mr Talbot 

Paid Mr Hews man order of the Vestry j 

Paid John Neale for worke done at thej 
Sceole house.. 

Paid Mr Thomas Leonard in part of 

bond 2d New Yorke 

Paid Mr Thomas Leonard 4xb New Yorke j 
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on his accot pd by the Att Ge. 



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18th Octor By moneys Received at the Sacrament , 1 | 7 2 

30th By moneys Reed at the Sacrament 16 6 

6 Der By moneys Collected at the doore 17 8 

20 De By moneys Collected at the doore 13 9\ 

more on 5th ; 5 7o- 



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By moneys Eecd at the doore & Sacrament 
By moneys Eecd at the doore & Sacrament 

By money Eecd at Sacrament 

By moneys Eecd at the doore 

By moneys Eecd at the doore 

By moneys Eecd at the doore 

By money Eecd at the doore 

By money Eecd at the dore 

By moneys Eecd at the doore 

By moneys Eecd at the doore 

By moneys Eecd at the doore 

By moneys Eecd at the doore 

Bv monevs Eecd at the doore 



moneys Eeceived 
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By moneys allowed Mr Wheler being drawn 

on him by Mr Attorney Generall & is 

the ballance due to him 2 6 

Brought from the other Side 25 ; 12 j 02 

By moneys paid Mrs Clarke in full for ' 

washing the Surplices & Cleaning the 

Church &c 01 11 10 

By moneys paid Wm Cutler in full ' 03 17 G 

By moneys paid Mr John Talbot for his 

Jorney to Yorke with tlie Addresses & 

horse 'hire ' 04 00 

34 00 8 

Burlington 7th Octr 1714 2 00 



Eecd of Jeremiah Bass Esq four pounds 30 00 S 
Sixteen shillings in full of Moneys due to 
me from Tho Lycester on Accot of land 
Given to the Church at Burlington 

^ me Thomas Leonard 



1715 To be added paid for a Common prayer 

booke ommitted in casting up on the 

other page 

By money paid Mr Clarke 





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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



LAUS DEO AXXO DOM 171-4 



Jeremiah Bass ] 
■ " Emanuell Smith j 

CHURCH STOCK IS CR. 

1714 £ s d 

Aprill 17 Kecd of Mr Smith & paid to Cutler IQ ■ 

1715 

April 17 By moneys on Easter day Eeceived on the 

Sacrament &c s 3. 14 ; 2 



LAUS DEO ANXO DOM 1716 

A BR AH AX HE^YLINGS 

Jonathan Lovett Churchward. 



CHURCH or buelixgtox cr. 

April 

27th 1717 By Collections ^ Subscriptions ' 18 09- , 4 

By moneys Paid J. Bass Idv his Subscrb 7 11 S 

By George Willis 1 2 S 

Bv a Bill of Mr Leeds 'i 2 

Bv Do of Mr Jona Lovet i 18 1 0- 

Bv Cash bv Mr Wheeler 1 | 00 ! 

Bv Cash Mr Smith : 1 ^ 00 | 

BV Cash 1^ Mr Bard 1 00 — 

Bv Bill of Row: Ellis j 1 00 ' — 

By Cash t^MrHewlings ..! 1 , 00 , — 



LAUS DEO AXXO DOM 1714 



CHURCH STOCK IS DR. 

By moneys due to Ballanceof the last Yeare 



& this — as other Side 8 5 ol 

By moneys paid William Cutler in full 8 16 



17 01 5} 

anno 1715 

By moneys due to hallance.. 12 11 > 3} 

PER contra dr. 

To Jeremiah Bass ' 12 11 : 3^ 

To William Cutler 7 , 12 I 6 

To Margaret Clarke ' 4 15 j 

To William Cullum 10 \ 6. 

To George Willis 2 13 5 

To ve Churchwardens for ve vear 1716 1 3 

To the Clark— for Do [ a 0- 



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A prill 1716 
Church AVardens Chosen for this ensneing 
Yeare are 

Abraham Hewlings 
Jonathan Lovett 

J Bass: 

April 1717 

Church "Wardens Chosen for this Ensuing- 
Year are 

Abraham Heulings 
Eowland Ellis 

THE CHUECH'S stock DE. 

1717 £ cJ 

May 10th To Cash paid Olive Clark 00 10 I 

July 8 To Cash paid Beuj : "Wheat for 2 days -work 

at ye Ch ' 00 07 

Julv 20 To Cash paid Olive Clark for cleansing the 

Church. 00 10 

Do 29 To Cash paid Wm Cutler for Two days 

^vork at 7s V day 00 14 

Do To Cash expended upon the workmen 00 2 6 

Aug 3 To Cash paid Paul the Cler. in part of last 

years pay 00 S 

Sepr 9 To moneys paid Olive Clark 00 12 

7ber 10 To moneys paidEobert Xailer for mending 

the Bellfrev floor 7. 4 

7ber IG To Cash paid Paul the Clerk 01 4' 

iSTovbr 1 To Cash paid for drawing the State of Bur- 1 

lingion Church By order of the Vestry / 01 

Decber IG To moneys paid Olive Clark more 00 S 

10b 30 To Cash paid Mr Marmion for a Bell rope 00 6 

Mar 15 To Moneys To a poor man from Hopewell 00 2. ' 

Mar 22 To 4fb of G penny nails to mend ye fence... 00 4 \ S 

Do To a mugg of Beer 00 i 5 

Do 24 . To Eichard flrances for mend in £■ ve fences 

&c 00 10 

Carried to fol: (48) 07 03 1 



PR CONTRA BY COLLECTIONS AT YE DOOR. 

From April 2Sth 1717 through Dec 15. 1717 10 16 ' 3 
" Dec22d •• ■• April 13, 
1718 13 15 4 

DR. CHURCH STOCK. 

Paid to Eichd : Blackham for mending ve 

Lock of the Doore \.. 00 02 ; . 6 

Nobr 7 : 1718 Paid to Mr W^alker "t^ order c\:c 02 00 

22 To Cash for sd Xavls 00 01 2 



232 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Decembr 10 

Janry 10 
March 30 
1719 



March 24 

30 



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Mar 30 

Mav ve 11th 



22 
June 10 
18 
19 
22 

July 6^'^ 

'17 
Angst 10 

22 

Novembr 2'i 



Decembr 21 
Aprill lo 

Aprill 18t]i 



To Olive Clarke order for Cleansing yej 

Church 

To Cash for a Broom 



Carried to P 52 | 

PR CONTRA BY COLLECTIONS AT YE DOOR 



From April 27, 1718 through January 4, 

1718 , 07 I 16 



DR. 



CHURCH. 



Brought from fol : 50 

To John Fisher for Carting Boards 

To Cash Pd to Mr Abra: Hewlings 

To Cash Kecd of Wm Collumn & Richd : 
Allison for Ground in ye Church for 
a Pew Their Parts Amot: to 

To Do Mr Eow: Ellis 



From Jany 11 1718 through March 29, 
1719 

By Ground Sold to Willm Collumn Row : 
Ellis & Richd Allison — for Building a 
Pew 



CHURCH DR. 

To 450 foot of Board for the use of the 

Church at 8.s ^ hundred 

Pd Mr Abraham Hulings 

Paid for 1 pound Nails 

Paid for Bear at Several times 

Paid John Neale in cash 4s and Pot of bear 

Paid John Neale in cash 

Paid Ann Kindal on John Neals Acct 

Paid John Neal 

Paid Richard tFrancis for work 

Paid for 6 pounds jSTails 

Paid Mr Hulings on acct of Saml Kimbal 
Paid J;^ Mr Talbots order for the Releife of 

a poore Strangr 

Paid Edward Rackhill for a Bell Rope 

Paid for Nails 

Paid on Mr. Pipers Acct 

Paid for the Releife of a poore Man at 

Cutlers 

Paid to Mr Piper 

Paid for a Broome... 

Paid Lazarus James for Repairing the Pales 

Paid for Nailes 

Paid for a passage for a Stranger 



Paid to PauinVatkinson wch is the Bailee 
of this Acct , 



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April Jeremiah Bass 

18 & 
1720 . George Willis Elected 

Church Wardens for the 

Ensuing Year 

Memorandra. 

June 23 Mr Hunlock chose into the Vestry in the 

1720 room of Manuel Smith by the General con- 

sent of the Vestry. 

And its ordered by the Vestry &c That The 
Vestry Men Sliall Communicate, at least 
once a Year, as the Canon in that behalfe 
Directs 

%1 KowD : Ellis Sery 



PR CONTRA BY COLLECTIONS AT YE DOOR. 

£ s d 

From March 30th 1719 through April 17th i j 

1720 11 18 I 9 



CHURCH DR. 

1720 

May4tli Pad Isaac Pearson for mending ye Lock.... 

7 Paid Paul which was Due for Last Year... 

July 6 Paid for two pds of Nailes for ye Gate 

Paid to Trenton Mr Vickery 

19 Paid Samll Brown for Mr Tolbut for fer- 

i-idg 

August 7 Paid for a pint of wine & Bread 

Decemr 11 Paid for Bread and wine 

27 Paid for a Broom 

Janur oth Paid for Bread and wine 



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Agreed by the Vestry that Mr Bass is fixed 
upon to peform Divine Service in the 
church until the return of the Eevd Mr 
Talbot oranother Minister be appointed 
in his Eoom. 

^ K : Ellis Sec- 
Paid for wine and Recevd the Deeds from ) 

Coll Morris j 

To Paid for wine & bread Sacrement 

To Paid Eichard Smith jur for 6 pd of 

Nailes at IM 

To Paid Daniell Smith for 81t) of Nailes at: 

Ud 

To a Large Seader post for a Corner post... 

To Paid Daniell Smith for 121t» Nailes : 

To Paid Abraham Bickley for one pd of 



To Paid Robart Nailer for hewine ye post 1 

& hanging the Gate j 

To Paid Daniell Smith for 8Bo Nailes at 14(/ 
To quart of wine & Bread ; 



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HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



June 9th 

July 24tli 
August 4tli 

October SOlli 

November 2 

1722 

March 26 
May— 15 
June ve 18 
July ye 21 
Proclamation 
Auo^ust 18 



30 
7br 17 

19 



1722 



Decembr 18 
25 

January 5th 
Gth 
n'ebuary 7 



1723 

Aprill 14 

15 
16 



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1722 



Novembr 17th 



To Paid Kicd Smith jur for 21b Naile. 

To 3 Seader posts 

To 25 Seder Posts from Mr Whelers... 
To paid Benjamin Kimball for fenceing 

the Sum of , 

To paid Samll Smith for ferridge for Mr") 

Smith new money 1 | 11 is old J 

To Cash for to bare Mr Smiths Traveling 

Charges 

To a quart of wine for Sacrement 

To a quart of wine for ye Sacrement... 

To 11 Seader Posts from Mr Bass 

To SundrysExpencesto Treat Mr Humpris 

To pd Eicd Alleson for a pd of Nails & 
Drink To the men that mended ye 
Bell free 

To a qrt of wine & bread for Sacrement.... 

To 411) of Candels to preach by. by tl 
Clark 



PR CONTRA BY COLLECTIONS AT YE DOOR. 

From May 1st 1720 through July 21st 
1722 

CHURCH DR. 

From the other Side in old Money £15 ) 

14s 21(1 is Proclamation Money / 

To Cash To Clark for a Broome 

To a quart of wine 

To a pint of Ditto vSachreement 

To a pint of Ditto... 

To Cash To Kockhills for a rope for ye Bell 

To Cash pd Mathew Ash for Bell Rope 

To John Bogers for a Hundred of Raile 



To a Bottle of wine Sachrement 

To 3 quarts of Linseed Oyle 

To a pint of wine Sachrement 00 

To a pint of Ditto Sachrement 

To Cash Due to the Cred the Sum of... 



George Willis Debter 
Sura of 



to the Church ye 



CR, 



PR CONTRA 



From the other Side in old Money £14 

14.S Shd is Proclamation ISIoney 

By Collection at the Dore 

Bv Cash from Mr Bass 



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1723 
April 16 

Mav 6 
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lObr 2 
iieb 2S 
Mar. 18 
1724 
Aue: 11 



7br 19 

lObr 23 
Jan 30 



1725 
Mar. 29 



Then Elected for Church "Wardens for the 
Ensuing Year 

Joseph White 
John Allen 

To Ca'^h pd Mr "Watkinson towards his 
Sallary 

To pd Paul for nails 

To pd for h Bush, lime 

To Benja AVheat as Labourer 

To pd for Scantling & nailes ' 

To pd for 2 new Shutters 

To Cash pd Paul 

To pd Mr Hunloke for MrOrmstrongs En- 
tertainrat 

To pd for washing 11 Snrplesses 

To pd ye Glazier ior mending ye ch-windows 

To pd Paul for Nails ! 

To pd for Drawing the Deed for the Glebel 

1 I 



Topd for Candles 6 

To pd for nailes 0: 10 

To pd for 2 broomes 1 : 6 

To pd Joshua Xewbold "] 
for mending ye Bell , 2 : 
frey and for making [" 

a short bench J 

To pd Paul at Sundry payments 



To Cash paid Paul. 



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From April 16th 1723 through 9br 24th' 

1723 20 2 



236 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



LAUS DEO 

ANNO DOM. 1725, 29th MARCH 



EOWLAND ElLI 
& 

Jonathan Lov 



'ET 1 



Church Wardens 



April 12 
1726 
May 10 

7br 21 
fteb 17 
March 14 



Mar 3 



THE CHURCH STOCK IS DR. 

To Cash pel Mr Willis for Candles 

To Cash pd Paul Watkinson his Arrears 

To Cash pd for washing ye Surplice 

To Cash pd Mr Hunloke for Candles 

To Cash pd for a Broom 

To Cash pd Mr Satterthwte for mending 
the Windows 



Eowland Ellis Debr to Stock & pd. 



LAUS DEO 



ANNO DOMINI 1725 



15 
3 



11 



3 ! 10 



PR CONTRA CR. 

April 11 By Moneys received at ye Door 

April 18 By Collections at the door 

May 9 By Ditto : 

16 By Ditto 

30 By Ditto %^ Mr Lovet 

1726 May 10 By Cash reed of Mr Abra: Heulings, ^ 
being ye residue of Mr William V 

ffishers Legacy j 

Jany By Collections at ye door.,,., 

March 5 By Collections at ye door , 

April 2 By Collections at ye Door 



By Collections 1^ To Jon : Lovet. 





3 


20 




1 








10 






6 




10 






5 






4 


1 


... 


3 




8 


8 







2 






11 





Anno Christi 1727 



LAUS DEO 



At a Vestry held on the third day of April Ano Dom. 1727 
Present The Kevd Mr Nathanl Horwood 
. f Mr John Allen 
Mr Joseph White 
Mr The: Hunloke 
Mr Geo : Willis 
Mr Jonathan Lovet 
Mr William Cutler 
Mr Simon Nightingale 
Mr Eowd: Ellis 



Vestrij Men 



IN BURLINGTON. 



23T 



f chose Cli : AVardens for 
:e Ensuing Year. 



Mr John Allen 

. 1 

]\Ir George Willis { 

The Kevd Mr Horwood proposing to this 
present Vestry that Some Consideration 
ought to be made for his further mainte- 
nance & support, It was then agreed that a 
Subscription paper be drawn and yt the 
Secretary draw the same for that Use nemine 
Contradicente — 



May 5th 
June 6t.h 



1727 

March 2^ 



THE CIirECH S STOCK IS DR. 

To Cash pd Paule Watkins the Sum of 

To D. Bv Mr AVm Collom 

To Cash to Paull Watkins 

To Cash pd the Suttons for fencing 

To Cash pd Mr Horwood by [illegible] 

To Sundrys for Mr Yahen his preach'] 
[illegible] when Came back from [ 
Philada J 

Cash for a Broom 



1728 Apl 22 



Anno Christi 1" 



April 9th 

31 Sunday 
May 5 



Cash in fill 



LAUS DEO 



PR CONTRA CR. 



.GW. 



7th Sunday 
June 4 Sunday 



Bv Collections @ the Dore 

By Do @ ye Dore G W 

By Cash Received from Mr Abra : Heu- ] 
lings & Mr Jacob Perkins Jr for the | 
Pew formeley Esteamd to be Jno }■ 

AVards the Sum of pd is in full j 

for the Said pew J 

Received from Capt Eicd Alleson the] 
Sum of fifteen Shillings being a Sub- I 
scription of his father Mr Kichd f 
Alleson maid in the year 1716 J 

a Collection @ ye Dore by J A ^ 

a Collection @ ye Dore by J A , 

By Sundrys Sums Received ye Subscription, 
paper &c the Sum of — 

By Mr Wm Collem for Paul 





15 






10 




3 







1 





*0 


5 










14 


11 




1 




— — 
11 








15 


5 


11 


16 






5 
8 


7 


3 








m 






3 






4 




5 


10 








10 




"IT 


16 





Burlington April 22. 1728 
Then Received of John Allen Esqr & Mr George Willis Ch. Wardens for 
the Year 1727 the sum of three pounds it being their Subscription for said 
Year and the Sum of four pounds five shillings ToAvards the arrearges together 
with fifteen shillings and five pence which makes up the Ballance of the 
Church's accot for this present Year Ending at Easter in ye Year 1728 the 
Sum of Eight pomids and fiye pence R.ecd 

Testiss Paul Watkixsox 

Eowd: E]LLI.s^ 



238 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



BURLINGTON UNRIVALLED FOR A COLLEGE. 

Mr. Coxe to the Secretary. 

^'Trenton at the Falls of Delaware 
^'28^^^ of April 1728 

^' Sir : 

" I embrace this opportunity by the Reverend INP \YayDiaii 
to Inform You of the following Particulars. 

Understanding that M"" Alexander, Brigadeer Hunter's 
Agent at IN^ew York, had at Length found the Deed of Convey- 
ance from M'" Tatham to the Hon''^® and Venerable the Society 
of the House and Land in Burlington, I went the latter end of 
December last to meet him at Amboy a Town between Forty 
and Fifty Miles from hence distant, where he was then attend- 
ing in Council with J\F Burnet our late Governor in hopes he 
liad brought it with him, but missed of my Expectation; how- 
ever he assured me if I would tarry there till his Return, he 
would go to York and fetch it, accordingly he did, and in about 
Six or Seven Days he came and delivered it to me, on my Sign- 
ing a Receipt for it, in the behalf of the Society, according to 
]\F Hunter's directions to him. 

^' I have likewise ordered the Lands mentioned in the Deed 
to be surveyed, Those adjoining to the house with the ^Vater 
Lot, Garden and Orchard are already finished, and amount to 
about Sixteen acres. Two acres of Meadow near the Brick Kilns 
in the same Town, have long been taken into fence and held in 
Possession by one Nath^ Crips a Quaker in Burlington County, 
Ten acres of very fine Meadow near London Bridge and lying 
on the Creek bounding the Town is likewise claim'd and in the 
Possession of M'' William Burge a Quaker of Philadelphia who 
pretends to an Antient Survey of it that he has many years paid 
Taxes for it, and has besides disburs'd above Twenty Pounds 
according to the directions of an Act of Assembly passed in this 
province for the drawing of the Meadows in and about that 
Town. I have inform'd them both of the Societies Claim, and 
like to those lauds, but they insist on their several Rights and 
seem tenacious of them howsoever I am inform'd by some 
Antient Inhabitants now living in Burlington that on a due 
Scrutiny into that affair, its more than probable that the Society 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



239 



will be able legally to assert and maintaiii the Eight ^Yhich 
thev derive from the Sale of Tatham, if these Gentlemen 
can't bv other means be induced to quit their pretentions thereto. 

The Surveyor has not returned me a fair Draft of the first 
mentioned Survey but I expect it soon and then shall transmit 
itj with the attested copy of Tathams Deed of sale, which I 
have taken Care to have entered on Eecord. 

It is reported here and in the Xeighbouring Colony's that 
the Society design'd to erect a College on some part of the Con- 
tinent of America for the Educating of Youth, after the manner 
as is practised in the University of Oxford and Cambridge but 
that they are as yet unresolved what place to pitch on for 
that purpose. 

If I may be permitted to offer my opinion in this case 
(having often Passed through the Colony's of Virginia, Mary- 
land, Pensilvania, Xew York and this Province, and being well 
acquainted with the several situations and conveniency's may be 
alleged in favor of either of themj I shotild with great respect 
and submission, advise for, and give the Preference to Xew 
Jersey, and Particulary to that spot of Ground where the 
Societv's House now stands at the Point of Burlino;ton which 
without Exaggeration or Partiality, I dare aver to be the most 
pleasant and healthy situation of any place I've yet beheld in 
America, and will not submit to any other for all manner of 
Conveuiencv's and necessarv's of Life. It beine on a most 
noble Eiver about one Hundred and fifty miles from the capes. 
A Ship of above four hundred Ton may come up and ride before 
the Town as many formerly have. The Eiver which is called 
Delaware is stor'd with Eish in great Plenty, such as Sturgeon, 
Eock or Bass, Perch, Sunfish, Pike, Trout, Eels, and catch in 
the seasons. Herrings, Shad and Oysters. Just before the 
Society's House is a fine Fishing place, either for Angling or 
the draught net, Burlington is almost in the centre of all his 
Majesty's Dominions on the Continent, the Town is very regu- 
larly and handsomely built, with mostly Large Convenient 
Brick Houses. The whole number in the body of the town 
may amount to about a hundred. 

The Society may purchase at reasonable rates from five to 
Twenty or thirty acres of Land and Orcharding adjoining to 



240 



HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH 



their own, If what they have already is not thought sufficient. 
Whilst the College is erecting which may be near or contigious 
to their own House, That will be serviceable for the Lodging 
and entertainment of the overseers or directors of the Work, as 
well as accomodate the Principal Servants and Workmen. 

" The Town will supply the meaner sort with Lodging, and 
all other necessary's, There is an Island called the Mattiniconk 
in the River opposite to the Society's House and not half a 
quarter of a Mile from it Containing about Three Hundred and 
Twenty acres of Upland and Meadow. It is in the King's 
Gift, and no doubt for advancing so noble and Useful a design on 
a proper application, His Majesty will readily grant it to them. 

It will be of great benefit to the College in supplying it 
with Fencing and Fire Wood for many Years, and will serve 
for a Pasture for Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Besides that some part 
of it may be converted into Gardening and other necessary uses. 
The Society may likewise if its thought convenient Purchase a 
large Plantation or two on the other side the Creek over against 
their ow^n Land at reasonable Rates, if managed with Secresy 
and caution, I have enclosed Two Drafts, or Maps The one of 
the Town of Burlington in General and the Island before men- 
tioned, The other of part of the Town more particularly described 
with the Public buildings, the Society House and Lots with the 
Lots adjoining. 

^' If the Society think fit to erect a College There, I shall 
present them with my Lot of one acre at the Point, as you'll see 
described in the Map N° 19, which will make the Place more 
uniform and convenient. 

" The Lot and Orchard of M'' Bass may be purchas'd and is 
indeed a fine piece of Ground, both that & the Society's Lots 
are as Level as a bowling Green. 

"The Water Lot of Hutchinson, I am inform'd is to be sold, 
as is the land next adjoining to M'" Bass, which will Compre- 
hend that whole Square. 

" If I have offered my Sentiments so freely in this affair, I ask 
the Society's pardon ; But as I have the Honor to be admitted 
a member of that Honorable body, and am at present instructed 
with the care of their House and Lands at Burlington, I thought 
is was my Duty, and for their service to give them the best 



IN BURLINGTON. 



241 



light into and account of their Affairs ; and how far they may 
be rendered more advantageous to them. 

The Reverend M'" Wayman who has been upon the spot^ 
may be able to give the Society, if they require it, further Satis- 
faction in this affair, My most humble Duty attends the Hon'''® 
and Venerable Society wdio am their and Your 
Most Obed* humble Ser* 

"Bx^"^ COXE." 

"a peetty xumerous congregation at buelixgtox." 
J/r. Horwood to the Secretary. Extract. 

'^Burlington March 24, 172^ 
'^Mosr Honorable and Venerable Sir: 

* " We have here at Burlington a pretty numerous 
congregation, and abundance of the adjacent Country come fre- 
quently to divine Service, great numbers of which have been 
lately baptized ; about thirty miles off I baptized Twenty Two 
Persons, some Young, some Adult in one day ; but all this time 
I labor under a difficulty, which my Brethren are Supplied 
with (viz) the want of a Library; M"" Talbot (who is dead) 
when living, denied he ever had any ; but however there 
appeared at his Death a Catalogue (tho' not his hand writing) 
of 197 books; of which I made demand of the Widow, in the 
name of the Society ; but to no purpose, she denying any such 
books to be there, I humbly crave the order and directions of 
the Society in this matter. I deferred drawing a Bill of Ex- 
change till I had heard from the Society touching the former 
particulars, but not being so fortunate, am now constrained to 
draw on M"" Treasurer for Two Years Salary due from Lady 
day 1727 to this present Instant Lady day, at the rate of £70 
per annum which was the salary the Honorable most Venerable 
Society was pleased to assign me, when before you. 

" This with all duty and Submission to the Honorable and 
pious Society is all at present offers from Venerable 
"Sirs 

" Your Most Obedient 
" and devoted 

" Natpi'^ Horwood.'' 

Q 



242 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



BUJRLINGTOX HEALTHY AXD FAMOUS FOE SITUATIOX. 

HoJbrool: to the Sccretarii. Extracts. 

'^Salem in Xew Jersey July 2P' 1729. 

Rev^'^^ Sir : 

^ a Burlington is reckoned liealthy and is as famous 

for a situation^ tlie most pleasant and agreable of any on either 
side the Delaware. 

'■' At Burlington there is both a clever house and 

glebe, the congregation is at Burlington comparatively large cV: 
consist of people Capable of doing handsomely for their Mission- 
ary but at Salem the Congregation is but small and the major 
part of it miserably poor. This is a true representation. In short 
sir, I scarce ever had reason to repent of any thing in my con- 
duct so much as my not accepting the leave given me to return 
to Burlington having had now sufficient experience of the In- 
convenience and hardships of living where I do with a growing 
and often a sick family and I sincerely aver that I had rather 
live at Burlington for £50 p'" Annum than at Salem for £70, and 
do believe that if the Hon^'^^ Society, truly knew my case as it is 
they would be so far from drawing back £10 from, that they 
would be willing to add £10 more to my salary." 



THE REMOVAL OF MR. IIORWOOD, DESIRED. 

The Churchiccirelens (^j Bii rlington to Rev. J//-. Yesey of X. Yorh. 

E.vtra.cts. 

^^Burlino'ton Dec^' 3^"M729. 

Rev^' Sir : 

^' M'" Horwood our present Minister * 
has reduced once a brave flourishing congregation, into almost 
none at all it grieves us that had the pleasure to 

see our Zion in prosperity a few years since now dwindled to a 
few and that for want of a sober and vigilent labourer in their 
A'ineyard, we are informed that he had leave to 

stay abroad in the plantations but for three years, if so his time 
is well nigh spent, wherefore we shall take it extreme kind, if 
you be pleased to signify unto him that as you are informed he 
and the people don't well affect one the other it would be his 



/ 



IX BUKLIXGTOX. 



213 



bast way to remove with all speed, and if thereupon he tacitly 
goes his way, it will be well pleasing unto us." 

THE APPOIXTMEXT OF EEV. MR. WEYMAX, REQUESTED. 

To the Venerable and Honorable the Society for propagating 
the Gospel in Foreign jyarts. 

THE ADDRESS OF THE CHURCH WARDENS AND VESTRY OF SAINT MARY's 

BURLINGTON. 

''Humbly Sheweth 

" That whereas the Reverend M"" Xathaniel Horwood has 
signified to us his resolution of applying to your Venerable and. 
Honble Body for liberty to return to his native Country which 
if granted by your venerable & Honble Societys favours are yet 
thereby encouraged to renew our application to the Venerable 
and Honorable Board for tlie continuance of the usual Bounty 
and we humbly offer that that Venerable & Honble body which 
has hitherto been so indulgent of us would, be pleased to favour 
us with the nomination and appointment of the Reverend M"^ 
Rob' Wayman for the serving this Church, That Gentleman 
being well known to us for his piety learning sobriety, Christian 
moderation and singular good temper, all these render him in a 
particular manner qualified to enlarge the Churches borders in 
this place which abounds with Quakers and other Sectaries, 
numbers of which ^ye doubt not by the Blessing of God might 
be brought over and won to the Church by his labours. If the 
Honble Society would think fit to gratify us in this our most 
earnest request, we entertain great hopes that our Church wall 
flourish and the worthy Weyman by the many services and 
good ofQces he has already conferred on us has so endeared him- 
self to one and all of us that we are persuaded we may be able 
to make such an addition to the Society's bounty as that he may 
have that sufficiency and comfortable subsistance, which he well 
deserves. We hope the Venerable and Honble Board will take 
our request under consideration, and when they think fit signify 
their pleasure to their 

" Most humble & obliged Serv*^ 

f Wm. Cutler, 
'' Churchwardens\ " Abra. Heulixgs. 
Burlington March 12*^ 172|o." 



244 



HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



DEATH OF THE EEV. ME. HOE^VOOD. 

In a letter from Rev. Mr. Holbrook to the Secretary of the 
Society, dated "Salem, Aug. 19, 1730/' are these words: Mr. 
Horwood, Missionary at Burlington, died at Burlington the 
28th of July last." 

EEV. ME. ^VEYMAX, MISSIOXAEY AT BUELIXGTOX. 

The S. P. G. report, from Feb. 1729 to Feb. 1730, says: 
"' The Rev. Robert AYeyman of Oxford, Pa.,t acquaints the 
Society that upon his Desire and that of the People at Burling- 
ton, he is removed from Oxford to Burlington upon the Death 
of Mr. Hor^YOod, late Missionary there." 

EXTEACT FEOM THE SEEMOXt AT THE FUXEEAL OF MES. 

TALBOT. 

" XuMBEES 23. 10, last part of the verse. Let me die ye 
death of the righteous, & let my last end be like hisJ^ 

"And now I have done w'^' y^ Text I shall only add a few words 
upon this mournful Occasion of our coming together at this time. 
If it be expected that I sh'^ make any large encomiums in praise 
of our deceased Sist"", I beg leave to tell you y^ y® Pulpit is not 
to be prostituted to flattery a Thing I shall always avoid on these 
occasions. However I shall only make mention of such things 
as I am sure all that knew her will Justify & for those y^ knevr 
her not I am sure it will be highly uncharitable in them to Con- 
tradict. Therefore I hope it will not be thought that I have 
other than a pious end in being Just to this our Siste^^ memory 
as far as it is Consistent my own knowledge & good Ac- 
q^ance w^^ her. 

" My Information allows me not to speak of the particulars 
of her birth & Education having no Acq^ance w^^^ her form' 
times yet any one might perceive that her civil deportment l\: 
curteous behav'' bespoake her a Gentlewoman in ail respects. 

fFor the industry, zeal, devotion and success of his eleven previous vears, 
see Buchanan's ''Historical Sketch of Trinitv Church, Oxford, Phila.," 
pp. 20-23. 

i The MS. has on its last leaf, ''Burlington at ye funeral of Mrs. 

Talbot on Whitsunday June 6th 1731." 



IX BURLINGTOX. 



245 



As for latf part of her days, them I have known & in 
y"^ been an eye "Wittness of y"" Expression of so much goodness 
as may Justly render her au Example worthy y'' Imitation ; I 
have great reasons to believe she ivas one w^ho always lived in 
the fear of God & seem\l to have had nothing more at heart 
than to please him to Edifie her friends & work out her own 
Salvation so that by her X*"" Life & Sober Conversation she hon- 
oured the holy Relig'^ she professed and gave no occasion to 
y^ enemies of God to Blaspheme. 

" She was ever mindful of her mortality & delighting always 
to be near Gods Altar. She perpetually shew'd her love to God 
by her Zealous Affection to the Church of England ; f by her 
constant attendance on y® divine ordinances there dispensed ; by 
her devout & regular behaviour w'' in the house of God & 
her Esteem & respect for y^ Clergy. In a word she was endued 
w^^ y® bright graces of faith hope & Charity ; stedfastly believ- 
ing that God's goodness w'^ be Sufficient for her & that her good 
works w*^ be rewarded & Crown'd w'^ Immortal glory. She 
was a good Xeighbour She w^as pitiful Compassionate & mer- 
ciful to those who were in need, the happy reward of w*^^ I hope 
she now enjoys ; blessed are y*" merciful for they shall obtain 
mercy. As to her behav'' in her last Sickness I can give no 
Acc* of that ; this we are sure of that she has been train'd up 
in y® school of Afflictions as well as oth""^ & having lived to a" 
very considerable Age in this world she often thought of an 
alteration & did not flatter herself as too many do w*^ y® vain 
hopes of a distant Exit. 

" She has of late gone thro Several sharp diseases in some of 
W""^ I have had an opportunity to Visit her. I found that as 
she made it the business of her life after the direction of the 
Apostle to work out her Salvation w^^ fear & trembling, so in 
y*" extreamity of her pains, tho she seem'd sometimes to be 
cast into doubts & perplexities as to y^ state and condition of 
her Soul, yet did she always w^^ humble Confidence in y® Merits 

t At a meeting of the Yestry of the Church at Perth Amboy, September 
23d, 1728, resolutions of thanks were passed to the widow of Rev. John Talbot 
for the present of a silver chalice and ewer, and a silver paten, which are still 
used in the services of that church. Whitehead's History of Perth Amboy, 
p. 221. 



246 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



of X^' by earnest repentance & ardent pray"" encleav'' to make 
her peace w^^ God & the world, by purging of those Imperfec- 
tions & frailities of Nature, w""^' is almost impossible but y^ best 
of us may Contract in the midst of this Sinful naughty 
World — & "w"" she talked w^'' me as if she thought the time of 
her departure was very near, it was w*^ all the Chearfulness of a 
Xtian who earnestly desired to die y^ death of the Righteous 
& had made it the business of her whole life to make her latter 
end like his ; heartily lamenting the failings of her past life and 
as far as I c"^ discern seemd always full of thoughts & holy affec- 
tions, full of hearty submissions and resignations to her God ; in 
w*"^ ExcelP posture we do in charity hope she at last expired 
into Eternity where God Grant w'^' her, together w^ all those 
who are departed this life in y® true faith of X^*^ holy Xame 
we may all have oar perfect Consumation & bliss both in body 
& Soul thro Jesus X'' our Lord. Amex." 

THE WILL t OF :*IES. TALBOT. 

In the Xame of God Amen I Anne Talbott of the City of 
Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania widow being sick 
& weak of Body but of Sound Mind & Memory do make this 
my last Will & Testament in manner following 

" Imprimis, I will that my Body be decently buryed by the 
Bodv of my late Husband the Reverend M" John Talbott dec'd 
in the Church of St. James's at Burlington in firm Hope of 
Pardon of my Sins & a Happy Resurrection through the Meritts 
of Jesus Christ my Saviour and my Will & mind is that a 
Decent plain Monument be erected in the sd Church at Burling- 
ton with a proper inscription to be composed by the Reverend 
M"" Vaughan of Elizabeth Town & the Rev'^ M'' Skinner of 
Amboy, or either of them — 

"Item, I Give & bequeath to Samuel Hasel & Charles Read 
of the City of Philadelphia aforesd Merchants the Sam of 
Twenty pounds Each — 

" Item, I Give devise & bequeath unto my Duty full & well 



t Copied by me, from the original, (Xo. 191.) in tlie Office of the Eegiister 
of Will?, in Philadelphia. G. M. h. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



247 



beloved Son Thomas Herbert f of the Island of Mevis Planter inj 
Six Negros Viz' Sarah and Nanny, Pendall and Betty with her 
Child these four are all ready in the West Indies & my Negro 
Phillis & son Jackey who are now with me in Philadelphia also 
my two feather beds with all their Furniture Curtains Valens 
Quilts Blanketts Sheets Boulsters & pillows & Pillowbers and 
my Table Linnen Pew^ter & brass with all my Estate Goods & 
Effects whatsoever after the payment of my Funeral Expences 
Debts & Legacys aforesd unto him my sd son Thomas his Heirs 
and Assigns forever — 

Item, I nominate & Appoint Charles Pead <fe Samuel Hasel 
aforesd Executors of this my last Will and Testament giving 
them full power to call all persons to Account who are by any 
ways or means whatsoever indebted to me, that they may be 
enabled to Comply with this my will hereby revoking & making 
Null all former Will or Wills by me heretofore made 

"And acknowleding this to be my last Will & Testament — • 
Ix Testimony whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal 
in Philadelphia this thirtyeth day of July in the Year of our 
Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Thirty — 

Sign'd SealVl Published 
& Declared to be her last 
Will & Testament 
before Us 

" George Roth 

" Edwaed Warner 

" Mary Jacob/' 

The Testatrix was .undoubtedly too sick to do more than 
make the first letter of her Christian name. 

That the Church in Burlington, is, in this instrument, called 
" St. James's," instead of St. Mary's, may possibly, have had 
something to do with the cause of the Jacobites. It is more 
reasonable however, to suppose, that Edward Warner, a Phila- 
delphian, — the second witness, in whose handwriting the Will 

fin the Parish Register of Christ Church, Philadelphia, is this entry: 
''Burial — Thomas, son of Thomas Herbert, Sep. 21 — 1731." 




248 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



appears — cod founded the name of the Church, with that of St. 
James', Bristol, Pa., (just opposite Burlington,) which was often 
served by Mr. Talbot. 

The value of this Will, as a historical paper, cannot be over- 
estimated. Almost everv line of it throws light upon some 
point otherwise unknown ; and the interest in it culminates, 
when the eyes rest upon 

THE EPISCOPAL SEAL OF JOHX TALBOT, 

with which it is sealed, by his widow. The impression on the 
wax is as distinct as though it were just made — on an oval 
ground, a mitre, icith a plain cross upon it ; and under it, in large 
letters intertwining one another, the full name, J Talbot.^' 



THE WILL OF MPS. TALBOT PPOVED. 

Appended to the AVill of Mrs. Talbot, is this evidence of 
its proof : 

Philad*" June 23,1731. Then personally appear'd Edward 
AVarner and Marv Jacob two of the witnesses to the foreo^oing 
AVill, and upon their solemn affirmation according to Law did 
declare they saw & heard Ann Talbott the Testatrix above named 
sign seal publish and declare the same AVill to be her Last Will 
and Testament and That at the doing thereof she was of sound 
mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge." 

Coram Pet Eyaxs Eeg Gen " 



MRS. TALBOT S EFFECTS. 



INVENTORY OF THE GOODS & CHATTELS OF ANNE TALBOT LATE OF THE 
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA WIDOW DECE^A SED TAKEN THE 
EIGHTEENTH DAY OF JUNE ANNO DOMINI 1731. 

Four Suits of pinners 4 — 
Seven Cambrick liand- 

kerctiieves .. 14 — 
Three prs Sleeves & 

Euffles .. 2.. 6 
Four Konting hand- 

kerchieves ..3 — ■ 
Two prs Silk two prs 1 

^Vorsted & three ^ 1 .. 

prs thread hoss j 

Five silk handkerchieves ..8 — 

Three prs Gloves ..5 — 



Cash £ 


; 15. 


16.. 


4 


Nine Table Cloths 


2.. 


14 




Seventeen Sheets 


4.". 


5 




Xine Towells 




11.. 


3 


Fourteen pillow Cases 




11.. 


S 


Eight Diaper & live 








Linen Napkins 




10.. 




Eight holland Shifts 





4 




Five Ditto petty Coates 




10 




Six LinenWaste Coates 




10 




Six Ditto Aprons 




9 




Xine Fore head Cloths 








& seventeen Caps 




10 





IX BURLINGTOX. 



249 



Three Black Crape 

lioods 
Four Girdles 
Two Black Fanns 
Two prs Shoes 
Black Silk Short Cloke 
Black padisoy Suit 
Black Velvet hood & 

Scarf 
Four Silk Aprons 
Black Sattin Quilted 

petty Coate 



Brought Over 
Blue persian Quilted 

petty Coate 
Stripd Sattin Suit 
Two Black Scarfs 
Stripd Sattin petty 

Coate 
Velvet Mask 
Black Silk hood 
Four Flanel petty 

Coates & 2 "Waste 

Coates 
Two Sattin & three 

Stuff Gowns 
Camblet Cloke 
Old Cloth ditto 
Green Calamanclia 

Quilted petty Coate 
Calico Gown 
Silk Night Ditto 
Two Feather beds ] 

2 bolsters 5 pillows | 
2 prs blankets Eug J 

Quilt Counter pane ' 

Curtains vailings 

bazes head and 

Tester Cloths & 

bed steads J 
Two Cotton hamockers 

& Window Curtains 
Eight pewter Dishes 

Bason & forty seven 

plates 
Two Tin FunelsSixl 

patty pans Cullen- | 

der and Dripping !' 

pan ^ J 

Jack and Spitt 



£37 
£37, 



2.. 6 



3 
8 
10 



1.. 10 — 



1.. 



1 10 — 



12 — 

10 — 

12 — 

10 — 



10 
12 
12 



10 - 



17 — 



Brass Kettle & two 
Iron potts 

Six Case knives & Six 
Forks 

Tin Grater pudding 
pan & pepper box 

Three brass Candle- ] 
sticks Snuffers & 2 ^ 
Iron Candlesticks J 

Warming pann 

pr Endirons Dogs 
Shovel & Tongs 

Frying pann & Grid- 
iron 

Looking Glass & Swing 
ditto 

Three Tables & Stand 
Four Smoothing or 
Sadirons 



Two Glass Tumblers 
Cann five Drinking 
Glasses and two Salts 

Lanthorn Seive AVood 
Mortar & pestle 

Bed Screws Bottles & 
Earthen Ware 

Thirteen Chairs 

Dutch Table 

Two pails three Wash 
Tubbs Safe & Bench 

Tea Kettle 

Seven Silver Spoons 

Two Silver Thimbles 

Two Gold Eings 

Eight Vol of Dr. Bev- 
eridges Sermons 

Old Large Fol Bible 
Three Comon pray- 
ers and eleven other 
Bookes 

Five Trunks two Chests 
& two Cases of Bottles 

A Xegro woman named 
phillis 



£80, 



10 



12. 



4 — 



£ 



10 

6 
10 

10 

8 



1.. 10 



1.. 15 — 



1.. — 



10 



£122.. 9.. 3 

Appraised 

Jno Cadv^'ALAder 
Edwaed Egberts, 



250 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



"abundance of country people come to divine ser- 
vice.'^ 

Ill 1732, Mr. Weyman acquaints the Society, ^^That his parish 
hath been lately very much afflicted with the small-pox, which 
hindred numbers of people from assembling together at divine 
service ; but that now the contagion is abated, the Church 
begins to be full, and abundance of country people come fre- 
quently to divine service ; that the number of his communicants 
increases ; that within the compass of the last year, he hath 
baptized ninety children and six adults, at Burlington and else- 
where. That finding the Church at Bristol was destitute of a 
minister, he hath, upon the very earnest solicitation of the 
people, undertaken to serve them the first Sunday in every 
month, and hopes to do it without great difficulty, on account of 
the nearness of that town to Burlington." 

POST offices and the modes of transportation. 

" For some time the only Post offices in Xew Jersey were at 
Perth Amboy and Burlington ; being on the direct route from 
'New York to Philadelphia, they probably partook of the benefits 
of the first arrangements. Letters for large districts of country 
were sent to those places for distribution. 

'^The first advertisement noticed relating to the transporta- 
tion by this route is in Bradford's Philadelphia Mercury of 
March 1732-3, as follows : 

'^^This is to give Notice unto Gentlemen, Merchants, Trgfdes- 
men. Travellers and others, that Solomon Smith and James 
Moore, of Burlington : keepeth two stage wagons intendina: to 
go from Burlington to Amboy and back from Amboy to Bur- 
lington again, once every week or offi:'er if that business pre- 
sents: They have also a very good store house, very commodious 
for the storing of any sort of Merchants Goods free from any 
charges, where good care will be taken of all sorts of goods.' 

"In April, 1734, Arthur Brown gives notice that he plies 
in a boat between New York and South River in New Jersey, 
and that he will carry goods to Allen's Town, Burlington or 
Philadelphia as cheap as other lines via Amboy or New Bruns- 
wick." — WliiteheacVs History of Perth Amboy. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



251 



THE COXGREGATION NEVER USED TO PAYING MR. TALBOT. 

3fr. Weyman to the Secretary. Extract. 

"Burlington March 10"^ 1734. 

"Rev^ Sir: 

The Congregation at Burlington remain in the same state 
and disposition of mind as I found them, they constantly and 
duly attend the worship of God but do not care to do any thing 
toward the support and maintenance of the Ministry because 
they were never used to it by my predecessor M'' Talbot who as 
a single personf did & could subsist upon the Honble Society's 
bounty without their help but my circumstances are quite dif- 
ferent having a numerous family. I am content and thankful for 
the present allowance I have from the Honble Society and 
should take it as a particular mark of their favor & kindness to 
me if they would but only be pleased to send a letter to the 
people of Burlington and Bristol to incite them to their duty in 
that particular manner and to declare to them their expectation 
of their conformity thereto accordhig to their instructions to all 
churches abroad that expect ministers to be settled and estab- 
lished amongst them. The congregation I have at Bristol is 
increased above expectation and I find there's a great disposition 
in the minds of the people in general to a conformity to the 
Church of England as by law established and to her modes and 
rights of worship but as they have been at first educated amongst 
Dissenters they cannot possibly join with knowledge decency or 
order with us for want of prayer Books for which cause I entreat 
the Honorable Society will please to furnish me with some 
dozens of them and of the whole duty of man or any other 
practical authors that they shall think fit to be distributed 
among them. I have baptized since my last account 23 infants^ 
3 adults and am preparing two more for Baptism at Easter. 
I am Rev'' Sir 

Your most obed' 
" Humble servant 

" RoB^ Weyman." 



t Mr. Talbot did not marry — it seems — until about the time of his inhibition. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



PEOCLAMATIONS RESPECTIXG THE FAIE. 

10 May 1735, the Fair was Proclaimed by the Court House 
Edw^ Peirce May Isaac Decou Recorder witli the Aldermen and 
Comon Council men Present — 

The Cryer making 3 Proclamation. The Clerk dictated 
'to y® Cryer as followeth (To wit) 

O yes. O yes. O yes. 
^'The Mayor Recorder Aldermen Comon Council men of 
this City of Burlington Do Strictly Charge & Comandand on the 
behalfe of our Sovereigns Lord the King That all manner of 
Persons of what soever Estate Degree or Condition they be 
Having recourse to this Fair Keep the peace of the said Lord 
the King : 

That no manner of Persons make any Gatherings or affrays 
by which the same Peace may be broken or disturb'd upon Pain 
of Imprisonment. 

That no manner of Person or Persons Do Presume to sell 
in any Booth or Stall within this Fair any Beer Ale Rum Cider 
or any other Strong Liquor but he she or they who is or are poor 
Housholders within this City upon Pain that will fall thereon. 

" That the said Housholders are hereby Strictly Charg'd 
Comanded not to Sell or Expose for Sale any such Strong 
Licjuors after the Hour of Seven in the Evening during this 
Fair upon Pain that fall thereon. 

^' That no manner of person or Persons buy nor sell but with 
true Weights & Measures upon Pain and Penalties which will • 
■be duly inflicted upon such Offender according to Law, 

That if any person or persons within this City shall gallop 
his or their Horse Mare or Gelding in the Streets thereof or 
imoderately pace or trot the same at any time therein (Except 
from the Cross Street near Joseph White's House to the Point 
House) shall forfeit the sume of Six Shillings according to an Act 
of Comon Councill of this City in such cases made and provided. 

That no person or persons whatsoever within the Limitts A: 
Bounds of this Fair shall Presume to break the Lords day in 
Selling Shewing or Offering for Sale or in buying or offering to 
buy any Comodities whatsoever (Except Fresh Meat) or in Sit- 
ting Tipling or Drinking in any Tavern Inn Ale house or Tip- 



IX BURLIXGTOX 



25-8: 



liog House or in doiDo^ aiiv other thino; that mav tend to the 
Breach thereof upon the Pain and Penaltie's contained in several 
Acts of Parliament and the Laws of this Province which wilL 
be severely inflicted on the Breakers thereof. 

God save the Kixg.'^ 
— 3IS. Docket of the " Court of Conscience.'.'' 

BURLIXGTOX HAS PAKTICULAR ADVANTAGES. 

J/'* Lindsay to the Secretary. Extracts. 
"Bristol npou Delaware Pensilvania March 9^^ 1736. 
" HoNB^^ Worthy Gextlemex, 

* * " Let me beo- leave to inform vou of mv encour- 
agement here and to inform The Honorable Society I have very 
little for all my services, the people of Bristol (a place very poor) 
have subscribed a very trifling thing but none else, they all 
generally say, as I do not reside among them they cant think 
of any thing, But if I did thev would allow me something of' 
their Country Produce. 

* * " The Mission of Burlington that has some par- 
ticular advantages such as the Societies large house some lands^ 
&c yet has a greater Salary than I wdio has vastly and by great 
odds much fatigue." 

the whipping post IX USE. 

"17 May 1737. 

" The Lord the King ^ Convicted before my Selfe 
a ! the Recorder Rob^ Smith & 

" Jack y^ Xegro of the ( John Allen Esquire for Stealing 
"' AVid^'Satterthwaite ] a Cock of the value of 6^ 

of Elizabeth Thomson on the Oaths of y® said Thomson, Gil- 
bert Parker & other Proofes, Thereupon it was ordered that- 
he be whipped at y^ Whipping Post with 30 Lashes on his- 
bare Back and that his Mistress pay the Charges thereof 
which was done accordingly." — MS. Docket of the " Court of 
Conscience.^' 

DEATH OF THE EEV. EOBEET WEYMAX. 

October 5th, 1737, Mr. Weyman writes, " that he himself" 
was then in all probability going out of life, through an atrophy,. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



consumption, and dropsy, and he therefore begged leave to take 
his last farewell of the venerable Society, with his sincere thanks 
for all their favours and good offices, and with his most hearty 
])rayers to God Almighty to pour His blessing upon them, and 
to recompense all their works of mercy and charity at the resur- 
rection of the just." 

The Rev. Mr. Vaughan, minister of Elizabethtown, writes, 
Xovember 29th, 1737, "that he embraced an opportunity then 
just offered of paying his duty to the Society, acquainting them 
that Mr. Weyman, the Society's missionary at Burlington, had 
-exchanged this life for a better the day before, and had left a 
wife and six children in very low circumstances through the 
poor pittance of his fortunes ; — that he had left the world with 
an universal good character, and was a true and faithful labourer 
in God's vineyard." 

The Society, out of an especial regard to Mr. "Weyman's good 
and faithful long services, gave his widow and children,! upon 
their humble petition, a gratuity of 60/. 

liEY. COLIX CAMPBELL, ^riXLSTER AT BURLIXGTOX. 

The report of the S. P. G., for 1738, says: " The Eev. Uv. 
Colin Campbell, t petitioning the Society to succeed Mr. AYey- 
man in his mission, the Society after a proper Examination of 
his Testimonials and Letters of Orders, and after his reading 
Prayers and preaching with approbation, hath appointed him 
Minister at Burlington." 

From "Burlington, June 2d, 1738," Mr. Campbell writes, 
^' that he arrived there on the 10th of May, and was well 

t A son of Mr. Wevman became clistingnislied as a Printer. Vide " Thomas' 
History of Printing/' Vol. II, p. 104. 

i He ^vas the tenth child of his father, (whose name he bure, and wlio had 
fourteen children, five daughters and nine sons,) and Avas born at Earnhill, 
Scotland, Kov. loth, 1707. "While a boy he attended school at Aberdeen and 
Inverness, and in the latter place, lived with his aunt, Lady Drummuire. 
His father was born at Delmis, a. d. 1GG4, married Mary Daft', of Drummuire, 
April 30th, 1691, and died in Nov., 1725. Kev. Mr. Campbell's grandfatlier 
■was "William Campbell, of Delmis, hereditary High Sheriff of Xairn, and as 
this office implies was of noble descent. A son of the Kev. Mr, Campbell, 
who made an excursion to Scotland m 1784, speaks in his journal of Lady 
Drummuire, as his great-aunt, and mentions seeing at Delmis, the old Castle 
Campbell, wliere his ancestors had lived for two hundred years. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



255 



received bv his Congregation, who seemed very much pleased 
that the Society had so soon taken care to fill the Place of their 
late worthy Pastor, whose methods and example he would dili- 
gently follow in the care of his Flock." 

PEOFAXE SWEARING PUXISHED. 

"20 — 1"^° 1739 granted a Warrant against Jane Freeland for 
Swearing a Prophane Oath in my Presence fine 3 | or to Sitt 
in Stocks 2 hours. 

" 18: 2 1740 Comitted a fellow to Stocks for Swearing.' 

— MS. Duchet of the " Court of Conscience. ''^ 

DEATH OF THE HOX. DAXIEL COXE. 

Daniel Coxe, whose name has appeared so often in these 
pages, was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Xew 
Jersey, from 1734 until the time of his death, which occurred at 
his residence, in Trenton, X. J. 

His remains were buried in the grave of his wife, in front of 
the chancel, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, wdiere a large 
stone, in the floor, bears this incription : Daxiel Coxe, died 
April 25^^ 1739; ^Etat 65. Saeah Coxe, died June the 25'^^ 
1725; .P:tat35.'' 

His voluminous AYill, "'^ containing Twenty four Sheets of 
paper & a part of a sheet," executed " the Twenty first day of 
March in the Eleaventh Year of George the Second King of 
Great Britain &c & in the Year of our Lord One thousand 
Seven hundred and Thirty seven " contains these paragraphs 
which appertain to Burlington : 

Item my Lot of Land in the town of Burlington cont° 4 
Acres & 60 perches (be it more or less) on the east side of James 
Terree's Lot & fronts on Delaware River in Burl"" afsd of 500 
foot (more or less) adjoyning to Hutchinson's or Latham's Lot 
now the Society's for propogation of the Gospell the street 
dividing it from the orchard late Jeremiah Basse's & the orchard 
belonging to the point house now in the possession of Mr^ Wey- 
man & also All that my one acre Lot in BurP afsd at or near the 
Point commonly called Latham's Point all that & those two Lots 
of Land last mentioned cont'g as afsd (more or less) I give & 
devise unto my Son Daniel Coxe his Heirs etc afsd for ever sub- 



256 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 

ject nevertheless to & upon the conditions hereinafter mentioned 
& declared, Item my Lot of land of two acres & three quarters 
(be it more or less) to the westward of James Yerrees Lots & 
Houses in Burl" afsd & near to the place or Settlem* late John 
WetheriFs since Joseph Welshe's & now John Eaton's & front- 
ing also on Delaware River I give & devise unto my Son 
Coxe & to his Heirs &c afs'^ for ever, Item the Residue of my 
Lots of Land in BurP if any more to me of right belonging 
either in law or in Equity I give and devise the same unto my 
Daughter Rebecca Coxe her Heirs &c afsd for ever/' 

LAYMEN MARRY TE]S: COUPLES TO MR. CAMPBELL's ONE. 

3Ir. Campbell to the Secretary. Extract. 

'^Burlington Oct. 8, 1739. 

"Rev^Sir: 

" I must likewise acquaint the Society not so much by 

way of complaint, since I am in friendship and good under- 
standing with the Persons, That Messrs. Allen and Bustel, 
the former my Churchwarden and the latter one of the vestry, 
do marry ten couple to my one, to my great prejudice." 

THE SOCIETY TAKES LITTLE NOTICE OF ITS HOUSE. 

Ifr. Campbell to the Secretary. Extract. 

Burlington Mav 3^ 1740. 

Rev^ Sir : 

I am heartily sorry the society takes so little 
notice of their house here, which if not timely look'd to will 
inevitably go to ruin and decay ; I heard last Year by a private 
letter, the Society had concluded to give the charge of that 
House to the Rev*^ M"" Cummings at Philadelphia and myself, 
but their instructions concerning this, has not yet come either 
to him or me." 

THE PENALTY FOR STEALING TW^O SKEINS OF YARN. 

"Oct 8, 1741, a Warr granted at the Sute of Elizarabeth 
The King Hough for Stealing &c & the S'^ being Con- 
a victed before the May"" & Recorder on the 

Elinor Holms 9>^' Inst was Sentenced to be Whipped at the 
publick whipping post in this City which 
was performed on the 10"' Inst by Benj° 



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257 



Wheat the City AVhipper (S: said Elinor Holmes departed the 
City according to the Sentence of the Said Court. She was 
whipped on the Bare Back tenn Lashes — being convicted of 
Stealing two Skains of Yarn valued by the plaintiff under 20 
Shillings.'^ — JIS. Docket of the " Court of Conscience^ 

A LARGE BEQUEST LOST. 

Mr. Caraphell to the Secretary. Kctract. 

^•Burlington May 12, 1742. 

^• R. D. SlE: 

^'I have sent inclosed the Copy of a AVill wherein there is 

a large bequest made to my Church, if justice were done it, its 
pity our old Mission, & a Mission of as great consequence to 
Society as many in Xorth America (considering it has a footing 
in the center of y® Kingdom of Quakers) Should thro' length 
of time & villany be divested of its proper rights. I have at my 
own Expence in consultations of Lawyers expended £6 Ster^ 
already upon it, and all of them agree that the church has a 
good right and the subject in debate if recover'd is worth at 

least £300 Sterling. 

"R D Sir Your most humble Servant 

'^CoLix Campbell." 

MAEEL\GE OF THE LEY. MR. CAMPBELL. 

" June 9-^ 1742 The Rev"^ M" Colin Campbell missionary at 
Burlington was married to M^^ Mary Martha Bard,"|" of the 
Same place Gent'^'' married by the Revd M'' Currie."' — Parish 
Register. 

Other records state further, that this solemnization took place 
in St. Mary's Church; the Rev. Wm. Currie who officiated, being 
at that time, missionary at Radnor, Pa. 

f This lady "was the daughter, (born ^larcli 10th, 1719, and baptized on the 
29th of the same month by Eev. Mr. Talbot. ) of Col. Peter Bard, one of his 
3Iaic-:y"- Council and Second Judge of the Supreme Court of Xew Jersey. 
Her m iither was Dinah Marmion, who left Leicestershire, at seven years of 
ao-e, with her parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Marmion, whose graves are in 
the centre of St. Mary's Chttrch yard. 

E 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



OBSTRUCTIOXS AVHICH THE MISSIONARIES MEET WITH. 

3Ir. Campbell to the Secretary. Extract. 

Burlington JSW 2^^ 1742. 

'^RDS: 

" I must now beg leave to shew the Society (and that 

plainly) what are the obstructions that I and our Missionarys in 
Pennsylvania & New Jersey meet with; & does & will render 
our labours the less effectually Let our endeavours be never so 
faithfull & diligent ; The Society I hope know that the majority 
of the People here especially on the Western Division of thi.'^ 
Province as well as in Pennsylvania are Quakers, and it is com- 
mon with the Mobb ; for so I must call them who are not trulv 
Governors ; to measure Orthodoxy in Religion from numbers 
power, our Gov"" tho' a Member of your Society, yet allows the 
majority of the Representatives in Assemblys of his Council, 
Judges of the Courts & Justices of the Peace to be Quakers — 
How to accompt for this I cannot tell but so it is and what the 
consequences are Government itself beginns now to feel, altho' 
we have felt it to our sad experience long agoe. Let the Society 
judge how inconsistent with English Liberty that Judges sitting 
on our Benches, Justices of the Peace &c shall exact Oaths of 
English Subjects, who by no means will take them themselves 
or Juries who sit before them who by bare Affirmations will take 
away our Lives & Fortunes & laugh at Men who ofPer to take 
the Oath they themselves impose nay sue & imprison them if 
they refuse ; they are the execution of English Laws here the 
Quakers scorn rendered and England's shame, thus Men against 
their consciences are forced to embrace Quakerism for their 
power and number. 

^'I have often before now complained of Justices of the 
Peace's Marriage, not that I contended for taking away the 
power of an}^ sect to marry among themselves, but when they 
marry promiscously, & men of bad Morals in y^ station, who 
neither care for our form nor any other yet daily marry, brings 
Religion into contempt — None can know the abuses committed 
here in these matters but one on the spot. Poligamy & every 
other unnatural thing is committed & incestuous Marriages. 



IX BURLIXGTON. 



259 



AVere a meer Strangrer to come that had never seen the Englisli 
Laws nor known he woii'd personally think they were founded 
on villany & deceit, and all a farce ; while things are suffered 
to go on as they do. In a word the Church seems to be like 
the Greek Church under the Ottoman Yoke ; if any or all these 
things are redressed let this Letter be published (if not we must 
be silent under our load) For in point of prudence I have be- 
haved myself since I came here, in amity with those People, 
yet I think it my duty in discharging my conscience thus to mv 
Employers and Superiors, and think if that correspondence 
which is kept up among Jews Jesuits & Quakers in iniquity 
were kept up in integrity among us it would be better for us 
what is the effect of Quakerism now in Pennsylvania but a 
nursery of Jesuits, no less than two Priests are in Philadelphia 
& 4 in Conestogoe, a County in the Country and what the ead of 
the Quaker power will prove we may plainly guess, many Irish 
Papists turn Quakers and get into places as well as Germans, O 
English policy alas for it, and a Quaker Author latelv sent his 
Books here, one Elves from London, making our Blessed Lord 
to be the meer Son of Joseph & Mary, one would think that 
England wants now to give the finishing stroke to Christianity 
being wearied of such an obsolete Religion & introduce Atheism at 
once, my heart bleeds to write more on this subject & concludes 
P D S. Your most Humble Serv* 

" CoLix Campbell." 

CHrECH BUILT AT MOUXT HOLLV. 

In 1742, Mr. Campbell writes, that at a place called Mount 
Holly, about eight miles from Burlington, the people have built 
a handsome Church, and given it, by a deed of gift, to the Societv 
and three other trustees, of whom the missionary at Burlington 
is to be always one." He also records the liberality of the 
worthy Peter Baynton, in roofing and shingling St. Mary's 
Church at his own expense." f 

f The Will of Peter Baynton of Philadelphia, who died in March, 1743— 
and whose tomb, as well as that of his son, Benjamin, is among the more notice- 
able in the older portion of St. Mary's Churchyard— gives these particulars : 

" I will and bequeath to my Dear Wife Mary six hundred Pounds and 
Forty Pounds pr Annm during her natural life to be raised out of my estate 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



MR. Campbell's first child. 
The birth, and baptism on the eighth day after, of the first 
ehild of Rev. Mr. Campbell, is thus noted in the Parish Regis- 
ter: ''July 2d, 1743, was born the Daughter of Colin and Mary 
Campbell, and Baptized July 10th, by the Rev'd M'" Jenney, 
Rector of Christ Church, Philad'a and Commissary Pensilvania; 
Mary Ann Campbell.'' 

Likewise all and every part of Estate Real and Personal came by her to me 
and my Negro Woman Amorest and during her AVidowhood her Choise to 
live cV: abide in any House in Philadelphia or Burlington that I may be 
posses'd of at my Decease Clear of Rent all which I declare to be in Lieu of 
her right of Dower I will and bequeath to my Youngest Son Benjamin Bayn- 
ton Four hundred Pounds to be put out to Interest as soon as it may be Con- 
veniently done without distressing other parts my Estate and both Principal 
and Interest to be paid him when at age Likewise I give him the House and 
Lotts in Philadelphia the Nortli side Arch Street which I bought of William 
Pywell And that he be brought up and Educated till he be bound apprentice 
out of the Rents and Issues of my Estate I will and bequeath to my Cozen 
Elizabeth Derkinderen the Brick House and Corner Lott in the High Street 
in Burlington which I bought Last of Simon Nightengale to her and her heirs 
and Assigns for ever Likewise the Bed and all the furniture belonging to the 
Room She usually Lodges in I give to my Father in Law John Budd Ten 
Pounds pr annm during his Natural Life I give To my Sister in Law Ann 
Wheeler as a token of my Love Twenty-five Pounds and to my late appren- 
tice John Stapleford five pounds to my Dear Sister Ruth Banfill Twenty five 
Pounds Sterling to my Aunt Elizabeth Devit Twenty five pounds Irish Cur- 
rency to the Poor of Philadelphia in General Ten Pounds. To the Poor Com- 
municants of the Episcopal Church in that City five pounds to the Church at 
Burlington Ten pounds to be Disposed of as the Vestry may think proper and 
to my good friend Benjamin Pollard of Boston as a token of my friendship I 
give him my Two A'olums of Chambers's Dictionary in Case he survives me 
I will they be sent him Moreover I will and bequeath to my Dear Wife Mary 
over & above what is already mentioned One hundred Pounds Value in such of 
my Household Goods as she shall please to make Choise of And I give will and 
Bequeath all the Residue and Remainder of my Estate both Real and Personal 
(subject nevertheless to the above) Avherever it may be found to my Eledest 
Son Jolm Baynton to him and his Heirs and assigns forever And I appoint 
and Ordain my Dear Wife so long as she remains a Widow my Son John 
together with my very good Friends Jossua Madox and Thomas Bourn of 
Philadelphia Merchts to be Executors of this my Last Will and Testament 
To whom I give as a token of my most friendly regards To Jossua Madox my 
Gold ring set with Emeraulds and to Thomas Bourn my Gold Clasps. 

my three Silver Tankards to my Nephew Peter Banfill ^ 
to Ten Poor Widows three of them in Burlington and Seven in PhiladeliDhia 
such as my Executors may nominate Ten pounds to each and to my God 
ehildreii Daniel .Jone's Daughter Ann Josua Madox's Daughter Mary Charles 
Willings : son Thomas Samuel Hassell's son Samuel and to Alexander Wood- 
rofs Daughter Sarah to each the said Children fifty pounds And out of the 
Residue or Remainder of my Estate two hundred & fifty pounds towards the 
building of a New Episcopal Church in Philadelphia — if began to be built 
within one year after my childrens decease And my Will is that those Several 
Legacy's be paid within two years after my Childrens decease ^' ^ 
Declared by the Testator' to be his Last Will in the Presence of us Colin 
Campbell Mary Campbell Rebecca Bard." 



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261 



LEGACIES FEOM THOMAS LEEDS. 

Me mo ran dm 

That the sum of Eight pounds being a ] 
legacy left to the Eevd Mr Camj^- 
beil by Thos Leeds late of Burling- 
ton Deceasd, was paid to Him by 
John Allen of the same place Esq. 
oneof the Executors of the sd Will [- £8 00 
the 14 of Decbr 1743 in full of sd 
Legacy of which he the ?d Colin 
Campbell acknowledge himself fully 
satisfied and paid as Kect of ve | 
sd Date .\. J 

Also That the sd John Allen paid into the 
hands of the Church AVardens Revel 
Elton & William Lyndon for this pres- 
ent year 1744 the sum of twenty pounds 
being also a legacy of the said Thos 
Leeds left to the sd Church as acknow- 
ledged bv their receipt bearing date 
March 17th 1743 _ 20 ... 

Also paid by Jno. Allen into the Hands "| 
of the above said Church Wardens | 
the sum of 2sine pounds being | 9 
another Legacy left by sd Leeds to \ 
the Church afd as by their Receipt | 

dated August the 9th 1744 J i 

— MS. Account Bor>-l:, 



GIFT OF SILVER PLATE. 

In 1745, the Parish received a piece of silver which, in Sep- 
tember, 1839, — nearly a hundred years afterwards — was made 
into an alms-bason, having engraved in its centre, a plain Latin 
cross, above which are the letters J H S surmounted wath a 
semi-circular halo. (3n the bottom of the bason, in Eoman let- 
ters, is the following : " This plate given to the Kev^d Mr. 
Campbell by Mrs. Katherine Pierce, for the use of St. Mary's 
Church in Burlington. 1745." 



UNUSUALLY IMPORTANT ACTION OF THE VESTRY. 

Ax Abstract of the proceedings of the Minister Ch : AVar- 
dens and A'estry of S^ Anne's Church in Burlington on the 19^^ 
day of November A D 1745, of & Concerning the Sale of a Tract 
of Town bound Land belonging to the said Church toward the 
purchaseing of a Convenient House & Lot for a Glebe or Par- 



262 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Church Wardens 



sonage house for the accommodation and Use of the present 
Incumbent & his Successors &c 

" Being met. Present the Rev*^ M"" Colin Campbell 

William Lyndox 
" Joseph White jun' 

John Allen Esq^ 
Revel Elton Esq^ 
DocT^ Tho^ Shaw 
a W*^ Heuling i> Vestry men 

JVP Stephen Williams 
]\P John Budd 

Rowland Ellis 

The Rev*^ INT' Campbell having at Sundry times heretofore 
signified to the Vestrj the difficulties he labour'd under for 
want of a Convenient house to dwell in, the old parsonage house 
being gone to Decay and Scituated in a vary unhealthy place to 
live at (if repaird) That in a former Yestry it was Resolved 
that the Land belonging to this Church adjoyning to Schuylers 
Plantation sho'd be sold in order to buy or build a dwelling 
house for y^ use and purpose, which remains yet to be done for 
want of buyers ; That the s*^ Land for years past is found by ex- 
perience to have been much diminish'd in its value by reason of 
the waste & Consumption made by ill minded people cutting 
and clandestinely carrying away the wood & timber thereof 
and in process of Time (if not disposed of now^ to Richard Smith 
jun"" who offers a valuable consideration for it) in all probability 
it will fetch but a mean price: That by the sale of this Tract of 
Land which brings neither profit to the Church nor any advan- 
tage to the Minister as it lies, together with some Legacies and 
other moneys being now become the property of the Church 
such a Conveniency may be had, by purchasing the house & Lot 
of Jn° Kemble at this juncture on Sale; Upon this Remon- 
strance the Yestry went to view the afores*^ House and Lot of 
s"^ Kemble and finding y"" premises very suitable and Commodi- 
ous for the purposes afores'^ returned to the House Of Thomas 
Hunloke at the sign of the Angel in Burlington to Treat with 
said Kemble and further to consult proper measures for Effect- 
ing and accomplishing the same. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



263 



Her late Majesty Queen Ann's Charter being openly read 
and the powers and priviledges therein largely contained tho- 
roughly weighed and rightly considered and Council had thereon 
^' And the Question being put whether the above mention'd 
Tract of Land be sold after some Debate had about the sale 
thereof Resolved Nemine Contradicente That the afores*^ Tract of 
Land adjoyning to Schuylers Plantation and belonging to this 
Church be Conveyd l)y Deed from this Corporation to Richard 
Smith jun"" of BurP to whom the same is sold for the sum of 
Seventy five pounds Lawful proclamation money in hand paid, 
which said Sum of Seventy five pounds being bona fide the full 
value for which the same Land is sold together with other moneys 
given to the said Church is now laid out in the purchase of the 
same John Kembles House and premises which this Corporation 
after some offers purchased of the same Jn'' Kemble and Anne 
his Wife for the sum of one hundred and Seventy five pounds 
procP money as an Augraention to the Church to Continue in 
Succession to perpetuity pursuant to the Charter as by a firm 
and absolute Conveyance thereof made by the s*^ John Kemble 
and Anne his wife to the use of y® s'^ Church bearing Date De- 
cember the 24 A D 1745 or the Inrollment thereof in the Secre- 
tarys Office at Burlington more largely appears In which Deed 
by Consent of the Minister Church Wardens & Vestry men now 
present this Clause is incerted, Yiz. That in Case of y*" Death or 
removal of the present Minister or of any other Lawful and 
Orthodox Minister that may hereafter succeed in the Cure of 
this Church ; Its consented to and agreed, That the s'^ Dwelling 
house and premises as now purchas'd with the Church's money, 
shall be and remain in the Trust and Care of the Church War- 
dens then being who are hereby Order'd and directed to take 
Care tliereof and to Lett the Same for the benefit of the Church 
during such vacancy as it shall seem most meet and Convenient 
to them with the advice and Concurrence of the Vestry for y*^ 
uses aforesaid any thing in the said Deed contained to the Con- 
trary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding : And for a further 
satisfaction to those that shall come hereafter and may be Con- 
cerned in the affairs of this Church as this Vestry is at present, 
Its Ordered and Agreed that the above minute be drawn at 



2o4 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Large and EDgrossecI iu the Church Book wherebv it appear^ 
upou what grounds the Vestry proceeded iu this matter aud the 
necessitv requiring the sale of the one and the purchase made of 
the other and both justified and Supported by our Excellent 
Charter 

"By Order of the Vestry Rowland Ellis Secry." 
—JIS. Account Booh. 

A CEXTEXXAEIAX. 

The Parish Register has this entry : "' May oC'th, 174«j, mem- 
orandum. This day came to hear me preach at the hotise of 
Heury Cooper in Xorthanipton Township ; the AViddow Bell ; 
born in Xew England a poor woman mantained by said town- 
ship ; aged as she told me before my whole Congregation there, 
one hundred and two years ; had her eyesight and hearing per- 
fectly well, walked upright, and had the entire use all her other 
facidties ; witness. Colin Campbell, miur at Burlington.'^ 

A PARSONAGE PURCHASED. 

Jlinister and CJu'rcJurarcIens of Burlington to the Secrekrry. 

Burlington Xew Jersev June 2^ 1746. 

" Rea^^ Sie 

We the Minister <Sz Churchwardens of S' Marys Church in 
Burlington in behalf of the Vestry and congregation of s'^ Church 
beg leave to embrace this opportunity of returning our thankful 
Acknowledgm' to the Hon'-® Society and our worthy benefactrix 
(if alive) for the handsome donation, of forty potmds sterl. which 
we received Xovomber last and in as much as we have a Bell 
already and a parsonage house being very much wanting we 
unanimously concluded the money cotild not be better laid out 
than in purchasing of such a house which we have now done 
with a convenient garden lott at the rate of £110 sterl. f5 Ex- 
cli°^ for the use aud benefit of our present incumbent and his 
successors in office forever — the which we could not have done 
nor accomplished without that donation — AVe cannot indeed 
boast of our liberality hitherto to our Missionary because several 
of our wealthiest of our Members are lately dead and the remain- 
ing among us are realy not of ability but our purchasei ng of this- 
house and new fencing our burying [ground] may be Testinio- 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



265 



nies of our good will — We can say with truth that mutual love 
and respect subsists between us and our Missionary which will 
we hope induce the Society to continue the means of grace 
among us and not think the worse of us because poor — ^Ve hope 
ere this comes to hand the Providence of God who sets bounds 
to the rageings of the Sea and the madness of the people has put 
a check to that unnatural rebellion we hear has broke out in our 
mother Country and the nation restored to peace in the free ex- 
ercise of their Religion and liberties which with our hearty 
prayers to God for the success of the Gospell which may God 
continue to prosper in your hands as worthy instruments is and 
shall be the sincere prayers of 
^^D^S^ 

" Your most obliged & sincere 
Friends & hble Servants 

" Colin Campbet. il/m'". 

" William Lyxdox 1 7 ,^ 

-Joseph White ju^ J 



THE society's HOUSE BUPvXT TO THE GEOUXD. 

Jlr. Campbell to the Secretary, 

'' Burlington June 28, 1748. 

"Rev° Dear Sir, 

"I wrote Xov"" last two Letters the one by the Ship Widow 
Capt"" White, who I hear is taken, the other by Capf" Mann 
of Xew York ; but knows not whether either reach'd your 
hands, wherein I acknowledged the receipt of yours by M"" 
Sturgeon ; and one since the Postscript dated Xov"" last the 3'^ 
I have now nothing material to acquaint you with respect to my 
Cure, but that we remain in the same unity & good order as I 
formerly wrote; But I'm sorry to acquaint you that on the 
eighth day of March last, the wind strong at X West, a poor 
Man liveing in the Societys House either by his carelessness in 
not sweeping the Chimneys or by some other Accident unknown 
the House at Midday catch'd Fire & marr'd all endeavours to 
quench it, burnt down to the Ground ; and little or nothing 



266 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



saved but some old Iron & the Bricks,t I bappened tbat day to 
be burying a Man at Bristol, but was told when I return'd that 
it was impossible to save it, the shingles being so old & dry ; 
The Society are certainly at no great loss by this Accident ; altho' 
I'm heartily sorry it happened; because I have from time to 
time acquainted them of its runious condition and would have 
fallen to ground of itself in a year or two more ; and but three 
Months before the Accident happened I enquired of some Trades- 
men here what they would give for the Materials & pull it down 
themselves (they answer'd no more than Ten pound Sterling p'" 
exchange) so dear is the price of all labour here ; and as to the 
Societys ordering £15 Sterling to defend their rights ag^' Burge, 
I find since that Decon has made a private bargain with Burge 
of his share in debate & would have me alone carry on a Law 
Suit with Burge in the Society's Name which I refused to do 
until I had acquainted them and therefore have not drawn upon 
the Society till further orders ; I beg you'l be pleased to acquaint 
the Society that I want to be indulged with their leave to come 
to London to transact the Executory of a Brother of mine lately 
deceased in the West Indies most of his affairs being in the hands 
of Merchants in London ; I have now been upwards of 10 years 
in the Society's service and cannot reproach myself with any 
misconduct in my station tho' matters don't turn out here agree- 
able to our wishes, yet I think I have by the Grace of God done 
what I coukT; I have drawn upon the Treasurer for one half 
years Salary ; let me know the Society's mind concerning the 
above request as soon as conveniently you can — 
" I am Rev'^ Dear Sir, 

" Your most obliged humble Servant 

" CoLix Campbell." 



f "Old men among us still remember a cellar, which was said in their l)oy- 
liood to belong to this house. This cellar was filled up, when improvements 
v-,-ere made, some years ago, in that quarter. The huge buttonwoods an-d wil- 
lows, in that vicinity, are possibly, the only survivors of its trees." Bev. Wm. 
Allen Johnson's 31S. lecture, delivered at Library Ball, Burlington, Feb. 
Uth, 1870. 



IlSr BURLINGTON. 



267 



MUTUAL LOVE BETWEEN PASTOR AND PEOPLE. 

Mr. Campbell to the Secretary. Extract. 

Burlington July 5^^ 1749. 

" Rev^ Dear Sir 

— — " I cheerfully and conscientiously make it my study to 
answer the Society's good purposes by Preaching, statedly to my 
three Congregations of Burlington Bristol and Mountholly, who 
are all peaceable and orderly, mutuall love subsisting between 
us ; since my last have baptized 8 Adults 26 Infants and receive 
to the Communion at Burlington 50 — at Bristol 14 and at 
Mountholly 10 persons ; I love not to amuse the Society with 
pompous accounts, but shall always strictly keep to truth, altho 
not generally rewarded with that favour, that impudence and 
pompous Boasting without modesty and distant from truth 
meets with ; which I hope the coming of Bishops here which I 
hear the Parliament have taken into consideration, will effectu- 
ally prevent ; and reward conscientious missionary s and dis- 
courage those that are not.'' 

increased facilities for travel. 

''In 1751, a boat left 'Crooked billet wharf,' Philadelphia, 
once a w^eek for Burlington, w4ience ' a stage wagon with a good 
awning' — kept by Fretwell Wright at the 'Blue Anchor in 
Burlington,' John Predmore at Cranberry, and James Wilson 
at Amboy Ferry — ran to the latter place, where ' good enter- 
tainment for man and horse would be found ' at the house of 
Obadiah Ayres. Great dependence seems to have been laid upon 
the attractions of their passage-boat between Amboy and New 
York, which was commanded by Matthew Iseltine. She is 
described as having 'a fine commodious cabin, fitted up with a 
tea table, and sundry other conveniences.' It was believed that 
by this route passengers could go through in twenty-four or thirty 
hours less time than by any other." — Whitehead's Perth Amboy. 

death and bequest of the parish clerk. 

In 1752, Mr. Campbell reports that '' Mr. Paul Watkinson, 
who had been clerk of St. Mary's Church from the year 1707, 



268 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



(forty-five years,) died lately much lamented, and had left his 
house with a lot of land, worth a hundred pounds sterling, after 
the death of his widow, to the repairs of that Church for ever." 

The headstone, for the grave of this old \vorthy, may be seen 
in the East wall (outside) of the chancel of the old St. Mary's; 
it's inscription reads: Here Lieth the Body of Paul Wat- 
Kixsox who Departed this Life the 10 of July 1752 Aged 72 
years." 

CHANGE OF STYLE IX RECKONING TIME. 

The change of style in reckoning time, took place in England, 
by legislative enactment, after the 2d of Sep., 1752, that being 
ihe last day of Old Style, and the 14th instead of the 3d, being 
the first day of New Style ; and the legal year which had pre- 
viously begun with the 25th of March, (Feast of the Annuncia- 
tion, commonly called Lady-Day,) was made to begin with the 
first of January. This should be kept in mind in reading the 
preceding portion of this History. 

AN extraordinary STORM. 

The following is from Mrs. Campbell's household account 
book : " It was very remarkable that upon Tuesday, the 10th 
day of March, 1752, we had the severest gust of thunder and 
lightning, attended with snow and hail, which continued from 
one o'clock in the afternoon until five, without intermission. 
The like has not been known by the memory of the oldest 
people. Mr. Campbell rode to Mt. Holly in the midst of it, 
and Dr. Ross along with him." [Dr. John Ross, a physician 
residing at Mount Holly.] 

THE churchwardens' ACCOUNTS FOR SEVERAL YEARS. 

''April 19 \This day William Lyndon & Abrm Healings the present Church 
1759 /Wardens Exhibited their accos which for several years past have 
Eemained open and unsettled, and are as follows, Viz 



IN BURLINGTON. 



269 



"ABRAHAM HEULINGS ESQR DR. 



To sundries as ^ liis Acct of particulars ] 
for Collection money, subscription 
money for Eent, and for Cash reed 
of William Lyndon &c from his 
being first Elected as Ch. AVarden 
to the above Date, in the whole the 
sum of Eighty Six pounds thirteen 
Shillings & five pence J. J 

Bailee due A. H 



£86 



16 



WILLIAM LYNDON DR. 



96 



To Charity Money Box Do &c now remain- 
ing in his hands the sum of 



" To Cash remaining Do for Rent. 



£7 



12 



"PR CONTRA CR. 



" By Sundry Disbursements for repairing 
the Kitchen belonging to the 
Clark's house as the Church's 
property, for Cash pd for the Large 
window in the East end of said 
Church The Clarks Salary for 4 
Years past and other Disbursmts 
to Wm Lyndon &c In the whole 
the sum of JSinety six pounds Nine 
shill and seven pence half penny... J 
— 3IS. Account Book. 



£96 



THE MLSSIOXARY's LABOUR XOT IN YAIX. 

Ill 1759, Mr. Campbell writes, that " he goes on with cheer- 
fulness and diligence in performing the duties of his several 
churches at Burlington, Mount Holly, and Bristol, not only by 
reading the public service and preaching, but also by publicly 
catechising the youth, and grounding them in the principles of 
our holy faith ; and he hath the satisfaction to find that his 
labour is not in vain." 



THE CHURCH W^ARDEXS ACCOUNTS APPROYED. 

April the 7th 1760 Easter Wlonday Abraham 
Heulings and William Lyndon the Present 
Church Wardens Exhibited their Accomipts 
which being inspected proved and Allotved of 
by the Vestry are as follows Vizt 

Abraham Heulings Charges himself from ] 
the 19th day of April 1756 with the fol- | -p^, 
lowing Articles by him Keceivd as j ^' 
Church AYarden to this Day J 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



To Collections at the Door Reed in the 

whole £ 

To Cash by subscriptions reed the sum of £ 

To Ditto Reed of Fr Giffing for Rent £ 

To Do Reed of William Lyndon £ 

To Do Reed of John Tylee rent £ 

£ 

Left in his hands a Note of Willm 
White on Interest Principal sum is £4 13s 
Od and one Do of Jno Tylee for £2 5s Od 
doubtful! 

Bal lance of Willm Lyndon the other 
Church Warden's accompt of Charity 
Money £7 15s lid 

Bain of sd Lyndon's Collection 

Money £0 lis 8f/ 



PER. CONTRA CR. 

By Casli pel for Wine, Bread, & sundries in 
all 

By Do pd Wm Borradaill, Moses Thomas ] 
Jno Neal and Joseph Ferguson the > 
sum of j 

To Cash, paid Francis Giffing the Clk to[ 
this Day , 

To Do pd Jos Rockhill Jno Neal Moses ^ 
Thomas and Joseph flerguson for the ^ 
window at ye East end of ye Church J 

To Cash paid Is: Heulings this Day April 

7th ; ' 



12 


00 


lOi- 


45 


18 


2 


31 


10 





20 


08 





2 


05 





112 


02 


Oh 









£8 


~v 




£4 


01 


7 


£27 


12 




£64 


00 





14 


04 


6 


1 00 


17 




01 


06 




112 


02 


OOJ 



■2IS. Account B-ooh. 



MR. CAMPBELL IN CONVENTION AT PHILADELPHIA. 

May 20, 1761, Wednesday. At a convention of the clergy 
held in Philadelphia, among the twelve clergymen present was 
the Rev. Mr. Campbell. 

" The Rev. Dr. Smith was elected president, and with Rev. 
Mr. Reading, was appointed to wait upon the governor, to 
request his approbation of our present meeting, and his protec- 
tion during om sitting. 

" The gentlemen reported that the governor was pleased to 
say that he could have no possible objection to our meeting 
together, and that we might depend upon his countenance and 
protection at all times." — Dorr's History , p. 125. 



IN BUELIXGTON. 



271 



COMMEXCEMEXT AT THE PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY. 

J/r. Campbell to the Secretarij. Extract. 

Burlington June 26, 1761. 

Eev^ D^^ Sir : 

I had the honor with some others of mj Brethren in 

the Mission of this Province, upon invitation to be at Phila- 
delphia, the middle of last month when there was a commence- 
ment in that Academy under the Presidency of D"" Smith where 
the youth who received their degrees acquitted themselves with 
general approbation, beyond what could well be expected from 
such an Infant institution labouring under such a variety of 
discouragements. When the day after a voluntary convention 
of the Clergy in the Mission of that Province met at Philadel- 
phia; and we of this Province were kindly and Brotherly invited 
to join them ; having obtained leave of their Governor for that 
purpose for a free meeting and a conference with one another 
where among other things D"" Smith who presided at the con- 
vention produced a copy of an answer to a letter wrote by M'' 
M'^Clennachan to the Arch Bishop of Canterbury. The answer 
so judicious fatherly and indulgent ; and at the same time set- 
ting M"" M^'Clennachan's conduct, in such a true and fair light, 
turning his own Argum*^ so home upon himself; That we unan- 
imously voted our sincere thanks to the good Arch Bishop ; for 
his charitable opinion of us, when exparte misrepresented to him 
by M'^Clennachan and his adherents and humbly requested his 
Grace would graciously condescend to permit said answer to be 
printed for the benefit of the community as well as for the 
advancement af Religion in general in these parts ; The Arch 
Bishops prognosticks have not failed to come to pass his partys 
zeal every date abates ;. his warmest friends have deserted him ; 
So that in the end he will have sufficient cause to lament his 
rash and imprudent conduct ; and undutieful behaviour to his 
superiours. 

" I am Pvev^^ Sir &c 

Colin Campbell."' 



272 



PIISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



LARGE NUMBER BAPTIZED. 

Ill 1761 J ^^the Society's Missionary at Burlington, and visiting 
occasionally Mount Holly and Bristol, reports, in the three 
places, seventy-four baptisms and fifty communicants." 

:\rOUXT HOLLY COXGREGATIOX RECEIVES A CHECK. 

Mr. Campbell to the Secretary. Extract. 

" Burlington Dec^ 26, 1761. 

Rey^ Sir 

I hope you rece'd ray last of June 26^^ I can write you now 
of no materiall alterations in the state of my congregations since 
— That of Burlington and Bristol continue to be decent and 
orderly and lately many of the old people have died in a man- 
ner suddenly by violent pleuretich disorders occasioned by 
sudden alterations in the weather here ; which runs upon 
■extreams of heats and cold and these places much decline in 
trade which occasions the young people to remove where they 
may profit themselves better in lands or trade where the Country 
is more extensive by means of our good success against our 
enemies and the generality of the people have bent their minds 
in a more than ordinary degree ; after the world I am afPraid to 
the too much neglect of labouring after the bread which perishes 
not because of the present temptations they meet with and the 
extraordinary encouragement the farmer getts for every thing he 
raises wdiich has advanced the price of our provisions and fire 
wood since the seat of the War has been here at least a C^ from 
what it was seven years ago inso much that it is with the utmost 
difficulty that we of the Mission can support our families — My 
Congregation at Mountholly, which w^as a very flourishing one 
has lately received a cheque ; by means of some Enthusiastical 
people who have connections with some of that stamp in Phila- 
delphia under the Ministry of M"" M'^Clenachan who having 
upon my refuseing the use of my pulpit to that Gentleman en- 
deavoured to raise a schism among the people of that part of 
my Congregation and altho my remonstrance and reasons given 
to the people why I deny my pulpit to M'' M'^Clenachau (are 
cogent) viz. that he left the Societys service in a manner that did 
Iiira no honor, that he had no licence from the Bishop of London 



IN BURLINGTON. 



273 



to preach here and that they not only transgressed the rules of 
•obedience to their lawful Pastors in the Church but even those 
•of common honesty for about sixteen years ago they made a 
deed of Gift of their Church to the Society and to the Mission of 
Burlington in trust and his lawful Successors in Office for the 
Society of which I am the only surviving Trustee and all this 
sunder their own hands now in the public records of this Prov- 
ince. But neither reason nor remonstrance can have much 
w^eight with people who are blindly led by a man and in a man- 
ner a stranger to them who prepossesses them with notions that 
he alone is the only preacher of Christ in America; and all in 
the Mission without exception are Arminians immoral men ; 
advanceing the dignity of humane nature &c. These are high 
charges but he has made no other proof of this but his own say 
so ; in order to establish his own reputation ; at the expence of 
the characters of his brethren ; the one third part of whom ; he 

does not so much as personally know 

I am with due regard and esteem Rev*^ Sir &c 

Colin Campbell." 

marriage of a baronet. 
The Parish Register has the following : By His Excellency 
Josiah Hardy's Licence Directed to me, March y'' 17*^\ 1762, 
were Lawfully Married S*' John S' Clair Barronet and Eliza- 
beth Moreland, Gentlewoman, according to the Rites and Cere- 
mony of the Church of England, by me 

CoLix Campbell, Missionary T 

STRAYING SHEEP RETURNING. 

In a letter dated June 25, 1762, Mr. Campbell with pleasure 
acquaints the Society, that his straying sheep, who ran after Mr. 
Maclenaghan's party,t are by the blessing of God on his en- 
deavours, reduced to a sense of their sin in a causeless separa- 
tion, and are returning daily to their proper fold." 

fFor further information respecting Kev. Wm. Maclenachan, see Collections 
P. E. Hist. Sac, Vol. II, pp. 250-255. 

S 



274: 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



A COXYENTIOX AT BURLIXGTOX. 

JTr. Campbell and others to the Secretary. Extracts. 

Burlington Xew Jersey Ocf 1^ 17G2. 

^^Eey^ Sie: 

It has been the custom of the Clergy in this Province for 
some years past in conformity to the printed instructions of the 
Society, to meet together annually at a stated time for the benefit 
of mutual advice & assistance and in order to inform ourselves 
of the state of religion in the different parts of the Province and 
if necessary to transmit accounts thereof to the Society, accord- 
ingly we have at different times addressed them on various sub- 
jects that have fallen under our consideration. 

AVe have now a convention at Burlington and several mat- 
ters have come before us, of which in due time we shall take 
liberty to inform that Venerable Board. * * 

^' With our duty to the Society, We beg leave to subscribe 
ourselves their and particularly 

Rev^ Sir &c 

Sam"- Cooke Rich'' Charlton Iliss^ for 

"T. B. Chan^dler Staten Island 
" RoB^ M^IvEAX Isaac Beowx 

^' Colin Campbell.'' 



ADDRESS OF THE CLERGY TO THE SECRETARY. 

''Perth Amboy Xew Jersey, Dec. 6th, 1762. 

Rey'd Sir : 

"The Clergy of this Province together w^ith the Rev'd Mr. 
Charlton of Kew York having occasionally met together in 
Amboy beg leave to address the Venerable Society and to repre- 
sent several particulars which are apprehended to be of some 
importance to the Church in this Province. * * 

" While we were lately together at Burlington application was 
also made to us in behalf of a large body of people living in 
Mountholly who profess themselves Members of the Church of 
England and have been under the care of the Rev'd Mr, Camp- 
bell. They represent that such services as Mr. Campbell is 
able to do them consistent with his duty to the other parts of 



IX BURLINGTON. 



275 



his Mission are inadequate to their wants. They set forth their 
spiritual necessities in the most earnest and moving manner and 
beg us for Christ's sake to make known their case to the Hon- 
orable Society. As nothing less seems to be sufficient than a 
new Missionary in that Cjuarter we informed them what qualifi- 
cations would be expected by the Society previous to such a 
request and promised that when they should be thus qualified 
we would recommend them as they desired. * * 

UlCHD. CHA.RLTOX, ISAAC BrOWXE, 

''CoLix Campbell, Saml. Cooke, 

''T. B. Chaxdler, Robt. McKeax." 

REMOVALS HIXDER THE GROWTH OF THE CHURCH. 

3Ir. Cainphell to the Secretary. Uxtract. 

Burlington Janry 4*^^ 1763. 

" Rev^ Sir 

" The Government here has been good enough to indulge 
us at Burlington with a lottery for the benefit of our Church for 
the necessary repairs of the Church being the most antient in the 
Province and the repairs of the Parsonage house which I hope 
as it is now full and drawing it will turn much to our advan- 
tage ; Burlington tho' a pleasant Village upon the River Dela- 
ware yet a place of little or no trade being shakled therein by 
Philadelphia being nigher the Sea ; hinders its increase of In- 
habitants and the wealthiest people in it being Quakers having 
the start of any Church people — settling here altho' settled earlier 
than any Mission in the Province ; yet for want of trade the 
young people of the Church persuasion are unwillingly forced 
to remove to other parts where they may advance their lively- 
hood which much hinders the growth of the Church ; yet I can 
with truth and pleasure assure the Society that the few among 
us and sincere hearty and religious members with whom I have 
now lived these twenty five years in the greatest love harmony 
peace & quietness studying my own business and continuing in 
the esteem of our Quaker Neighbours. — Rev'^ Sir &g 

CoLix Campbell." . 



27G HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



GOVERXOR FRANKLIX.f 

Governor Franklin and his wife J arrived in the Delaware 
River in February^ 1763; and reached Perth Amboy on the 
twenty-fourth of that month. He was received with the usual 
demonstrations of respect^ had his commission publicly read, 
and took the oaths of office there. In a few days he proceeded 
to Burlington, and published his commission there, according 
to the usual custom. These two places had been the seats of the 
separate governments of East and West Jersey, under the pro- 
prietors, and after the two were united by the surrender to the 
Queen in 1702, they continued down to the Revolution to be 
alternately the places at which the legislatures met, and the 
courts of the province were held. Congratulatory addresses 
were made to him from all quarters. He soon took his residence at 
Burlington, occupying, during a considerable part of his time, 
a house situate on the beautiful banks of the river there, where 
he remained until 1774. Elmer^s Biographical Sketches, p. 52. 

PEACE ^VITH OXE ANOTHER, AXD WITH DISSEXTERS. 

31r. Campbell to the Secretary/. Extract. 

" Burlington June 25^^ 1763. 

^^Rev^* Sir 

I can with truth and pleasure acquaint the Society that 

my several congregations live peaceably with one another as well 



t AVilliam Franklin, Governor and Chancellor of the colony of 'New Jersey, 
son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, was carefully educated, aided his father in his 
philosophical experiments, and, through his influence, Avas appointed clerk of 
the House of Assembly of Pennsylvania, and postmaster at Philadelphia. 

When his father was appointed the agent for Pennsylvania (and afterwards 
of Xew Jersey) in England, the son had leave from the Assembly to resign his 
office of clerk, that he might accompany him to London. There he entered 
the Middle Temple, to prepare as a lawyer in Philadelphia, and was called to 
be a barrister ; afterward he received from the University of Oxford the hon- 
orary degree of Master of Arts. 

In 1762, he was appointed Governor of the Province of New Jersey, an 
office then much sought for. The first announcement of this preferment is 
stated to have been by a paragraph in the newspaper : " This morning, was 
married at St. George's Church, Hanover Square, William Franklin, Esq., 
the newly appointed Governor of New Jersey, to Miss Elizabeth Downes, of 
St. James' Street." Elmer's Sketches, p. 59. 

X As introductory to the other evidences — which will hereafter appear — 
that the M'ife of Gov. Franklin took a practical interest in the parish, it is 
worthy of mention, that a card still preserved [1876J has these words : "Mrs. 
Franklin's compl'ts to Mr. Campbell & has sent a surplice Avhich she desires 
may be presented to the Church of Burlington. Novbr 16 : " 



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277 



as ^Yith those who dissent from ns ; and are in an encreasing 
state in so much that that of Burlington are about enlarging the 
Church from the profits of a lottery they obtained lately thro' 
favor of the Government and that of Mount holly have finished a 
new Gallery for the reception of people who were so crowded t in 
the body of the Church that before rendered it very inconveinent. 

"AVe hear with joy that amongst other blessings on the con- 
firmation of the late peace that God hath put into the hearts of 
his Majesty and those in authority under him to see the expedi- 
ency of appointing a Bishop for the superintendency of the 

Churches and Clergy of the Episcopal Churches here 

^^Rev'^Sir&c 

CoLix Campbell.'' 

'^THE PEOPLE SIXCERE, HEAEXT AXD PvELIGIOUS." 

"In 1763, he reports no less than 115 baptisms, and in his three 
congregations fifty persons added to the communion ; and assures 
the Society that the people of his Mission are sincere, hearty and 
religious, with whom he hasalways lived in the greatest harmony." 

ox THE VEEGE OF SIXTY.'^ 

In 1763, Mr. Campbell writes, that ^' being now on the verge 
of sixty, and greatly weakened by an inflammatory fever, which 
settled in his thigh, and confined him all the month of January, 
he finds he cannot perform his duty with the same activity as 
formerly; but trusts he shall, through God's assistance, do his 
utmost in the discharge of his duty to God and the Society." 

"absolute xecessity of ax ITIX'ERAXT mlssioxaey." 
31r. Campbell to the Secretary/. Extract. 

" Burlington July 30^^^^ 1764. 

"RJ)' Sir, 

"The peoples Religion is more now than heretofore 

measured by the number of Sermons they hear and the fre- 

f In 1763, he states that "this congregation, [of Mt, Holly] which at his first 
coming consisted of hut four families of the Church of England, is so increased 
by the divine blessing on his endeavour, that they think of applying to be made 
a separate mission. In 1761, they bound themselves to the Society to pay a 
missionary 30/. sterling. In that year, he baptized ninety-six infants and 
nineteen adults. In the next year, he baptized one hundred and sixteen 
infants and seven adults.'^ 



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quency of them, no such matter about the practice as an idle 
speculative, faith is so much insisted upon and preached up by 
y® variety of Enthusiastical Dissenters of all kinds ; and if the 
Missionarys don't preach thrice of a day in the long parching hot 
Summer sultry days, and twice a day in the shortest most bitter 
& intense Frost if they ride abroad their feet and ^s"oses may be 
ready to drop oil by the severity of the Weather ; they are not 
in their Dialect a pains taking ; Soul saving Ministers ; but idle 
Drones hirelings &c for my own part I have seen so much of 
these things in my Youth in North Brittain that early gave me 
a dislike to these things, & inclined me to seek after a rational 
Religion that tends to peace harmony & order & is a stranger 
to every evil work and confusion ; all which I have found to be 
verified both in the doctrine & worship of the Church of Eng- 
land ; upon the whole there is certainly an absolute necessity 
of an Itinerant Missionary in the Western parts of this Province 
where is none but myself in this County, neither any in Glouces- 
ter Salem Cumberland or Cape May Counties to the Westward 
of me; if the Society wo"^ be pleased to establish such a Mission 
and make Mountholly head quarters & they comply with their 
security in such case I believe they would be found to be Men 
of Conscience and zeal but to insist so selfishly upon one for 
themselves alone I do not think so right however have promised 
and now do to set their case and Petition before the Society. 
^' I am Rev'^ D"" Sir, Your most ob hble Servant 

^^CoLix Campbell." 



FOUR SUFFRAGAXS SUGGESTED. 

In " Thoughts upon the present state of the Church of Eng- 
land in America,'' 'Svritten in 1764, — Author uncertain," — we 
have the following: 

" His Majesty's Royal Protection is extended to Protestants 
of all Denominations, and the Church of England humbly hopes 
for it in this instance of settling Bishops in America. This 
appointment is not only useful but necessary to the welfare of 
that Church, to the regular administration of its offices and pur- 
poses of Religion and Virtue which is the end of its establish- 
ment. This design appears reasonable in itself, and free from 
every material Inconvenience or just objection: And if his 



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279 



Majesty, upon a view of the Equity, the Safety, and Advantage 
of it, thinks fit to give orders for carrying it into execution, the 
mode must be referred to his Majesty's Determination. How- 
ever, the following thoughts are humbly submitted for con- 
sideration, which occur after reflecting upon it, and which 
though imperfect may excite better. 

Four suffragan Bishops to the See of Canterbury or London 
may be appointed by the King in conformity to the Statute in 
the twenty -sixth year of Henry VIIL ^ * 

" First. The Residence of the four Bishops might be at 
Burlington in New Jersey, or at New York. His Diocese 
might comprehend all that is East of the River Delaware. 

'^Second. At William and Mary's College at Williamsburg 
in Virginia. His Diocese might comprehend all that is west 
of the River Delaware as far as the Southern Boundary of 
North Carolina. 

" Third. At Charlestown in South Carolina. His Diocese 
might comprehend all from the Northern Boundary of South 
Carolina to the Gulf of Florida, and also the Island of Jamaica, 
for the passage to Jamaica is said to be easier from the Conti- 
nent than the other Islands. 

Fourth. At Coddrington College in Barbadoes. His Diocese 
might comprehend all the Islands, exclusive of Jamaica. * * 
If this Proposal is not thought fit to be taken into con- 
sideration at this Juncture, there is little reason to hope for it 
ever succeeding. But the wise and good men in general are 
convinced from Reason and Experience, that the appointment 
of Bishops in America would have been at all times of con- 
siderable service, and is now become much more necessary for 
the cultivating Religion and Virtue, for the Propagating Prin- 
ciples conducive to the Quiet of the State, and securing the 
Allegiance and Loyalty of his Majesty's subjects in those parts ; 
and, therefore, if unhappily it is thought advisable to lay aside 
so excellent a design, the Members of the Church of England, 
both at home and abroad, will receive this Decision with the 
most serious concern. Yet they will continue their sincere 
endeavours to carry on every good purpose agreeably to the 
Principles of their Religion as far as its imperfect state there 
will allow; and always shew themselves faithful, active and 
vigilant to the best of their ability in maintaining the Peace and 
Security of his Majesty's Government in the Colonies." — -Collec- 
tions P. E. Hist Society, pj:), 162-4. 



280 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



WHO SHALL HAVE MOST SERVICES, THE ONLY DISPUTE. 

Mr. Campbell to the Secretary. Extracts. 

" Burlington April 20, 1765. 

Reverend Dear Sir, 

I hope you received my last of July y® 30*^' enclosing 
a Copy of a Bond of Security lodged in my hands to Petition the 
Society for a separate Mission for Mountholly ; * * if 
these people would enter into obligation * * to give 
me but half of what they promise to give to a resident Mission- 
ary they might be indulged with more of my services >. * 
which proposal I solemnly protest is not so much for any 
lucrative view of gain to myself, as the easing the Society of 
further Expence ; which in gratitude I ought to do ; to a Ven- 
erable Body by whose bounty I and numerous Family have 
subsisted for 28 years and upwards without whose bounty neither 
I nor none of my Brethren in this Province could support them- 
selves for one third of the year ; as there is no establishm* of 
any kind here ; and the People left to their liberty to give or 
withhold as they see proper ; who think we as much obliged to 
them for their attendance upon us; as they are to us for Preach- 
ing to them ; and as I live where Quakerism prevails ; and are 
chief in places of profit and trust in the Goverm^ whose tenets are 
among others freely give freely receive ; and consequently are 
against maintenance either of their own Teachers or others; and 
to tell the truth, at what they freely may be said to get from 
their own Teachers is worth little so it is hardly worth paying 
for ; and tho' by the Blessing of God upon my endeavours I 
have baptized numbers of Families that have been bred in that 
way; and are orderly, devout, sober exemplary livers; yet tho^ 
convinced of the superiority of our doctrine and Worship to what 
they were taught; are not easily persuaded to part with any of 
their Money for the support of the Ministry, but think the 
Society's bounty sufficient ; * * we of this Province 
live peaceably with one another ; as I do myself and congrega- 
tions with all Dissenters whatsoever ; the only dispute I have 
with my People who shall have most of my services. 

" I am Rev'^ Dear Sir, Yours <fec 

" Colin Campbell." 



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281 



A LETTER WHICH MAKES THE EARS TIXGLE. 

Clergy of New Jersey in Convention to the Secretary. Extract. 

" Perth Ambov Oct^ 1765. 

^' Keverexd Sir^ 

" It was very soon after the Incorporation of that Yenble 
Body, that earnest Addresses were made from divers parts of 
America requesting a Bishop. Applications to the same pur- 
pose from Governors of Provinces, from the Clergy & from 
Vestries, were frequently repeated for a course of years, setting 
forth the great disadvantages the Church was under, since 
neither Ordination Confirmation nor a regular discipline could 
be had while it labored under so essential a defect, as to be with- 
out one. The Society fully convinced of the reasonableness of 
the request, and judging an American Episcopate, even so early, 
to be highly expedient, thought fit to engage very heartily in 
the Cause ; <& Representations in favour of it were made to the 
Queen. A standing Committee was appointed to find out ways 
and means for the support of it — And a place was purchased in 
this Province at a great Expence for the Bishops Residence : but 
when the matter was in a fair way of being speedily accomplish'd 
the death of that excellent Princess alone prevented it. 

Altho' the most favorable opportunity was now lost, yet the 
Affair was not dropt with her death. For in the beginning of 
the next Peign we still find it to have been a principal object 
of the Societys attention — in conformity to a Resolution solemnly 
deliberated & agreed upon Yiz^ ^ That the important Affair of 
Bishops and Bishopricks to be settled in America, be considered 
in t\iQ first place.' 

" But what steps were afterwards taken and for what reasons 
so useful a plan, recommended and patronized by so respectable 
and venerable a Body with the most disinterested and charitable 
intentions was rejected we know not ; nor have we at present 
the means of informing ourselves. All that we know with any 
certainty is that notwithstandinp- the discouragements they met 
with, they continued still to have the cause at heart ; and when 
nothing else could be done, a considble Fund was raised by sev- 
eral of its most illustrious Members for the support of a Bishop 



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— whenever so great a Blessing should be obtained for the 
Church in America. 

" We fully believe the present worthy Members of the Society 
have the same sentiments on this subject, w^ith their predecessors; 
and indeed they have not been backward, on all proper occa- 
sions, to declare them to the World. We are also so happy at 
this time as to have a Prince on the Throne, whose favourable 
disposition cannot be doubted — And as by the increase of the 
Church through the natural growth of the Country, and more 
especially through the unwearied application, the inexhaustible 
Charity & amazing success of the Society, the reasons which at 
the beginning of this Century rendered American Bishops ex- 
pedient amount now in our opinion to an absolute necessity ; we 
therefore whose Names are under written, having long waited in 
hopes of seeing the Church put on a more respectable footing 
never expecting a more favorable time for an application of this 
nature, have, upon careful consideration, thought it our duty, 
after the example of some of our Brethren, to Address the Throne 
— humbly imploring His Majesty's Gracious protection of the 
Church in these remote parts of his Dominions, and that one or 
more Bishops may be speedily sent us. 

" The favor of presenting our Address we have requested of 
the great patron of the Church in America that most excellent 
Prelate, who so deservedly fills the first Post in the Church of 
England, and is at the head of the Society — The Mediation of 
the Most Reverend the Archbishop of York, and of the Right 
Reverend the Lord Bishop of London we have thought it our 
duty particularly to request — And we beg leave also with all 
deference and submission to apply4o our never failing & avowed 
Patrons, the worthy Members of the Society in general humbly 
imploring their infiiuence, either jointly or separately, in such a 
manner as they shall think proper, that our Petition may be 
granted — w^ithout which we have reason to fear, that the great 
things they have done for the Church in America, at so pro- 
digious an Expence will in the end be ineffectual. We could 
enlarge both upon the necessities for, & the advantages of an 
American Episcopate ; but as we are addressing those who have 
thoroughly considered the subject, it is sufficient to say, in the 



IN BUELINGTOK 



283 



words of the Society to her late Majesty Queen Anne^ that it 
would greatly ^ tend to the Glory of God by the advancement 
of sound Religion, the Honor of His Majesty, the prosperity of 
his Subjects and the flourishing state of the Church in these parts/ 

" But in our present situation our case in this respect is pecu- 
liarly unhappy. Altho' the Professors & Friends of the Church 
in these Colonies amount to near a Million, and are diffused over 
a Country far more extensive than any Kingdom in Europe, 
yet we still continue to be an Episcopal Church without Bishops, 
and to have Canons without Discipline. The Apostolical & most 
useful institution of Confirmation, we have no possible ways of 
obtaining. And yet such is the indulgence of the Government to 
every other Eeligious denomination, that there is not a Sect 
within any part of His Majesty's Dominions, but has the full 
enjoyment of all its Institutions and Rights. Even the Moravi- 
ans in the Neighbourhood of this Province whose principles both 
as Subjects & Christians have but a very doubtful appearance 
are allowed upon their barely asking it, the very privilege which 
the Members of the National Church, for more than half a Cen- 
tury have been trying to obtain — but with w^hat success our 
Enemies can tell with pleasure. And yet that our conduct has 
been such as to deserve the frowns of the^Government we are 
not conscious. On the other hand we firmly believe that its 
best security in the Colonies does and must always arise from 
the principles of Submission and Loyalty taught by the Church. 
The Clergy in general are constantly instilling these great 
principles into the people, and yet their most reasonable rec|uest, 
so frequently repeated has been unsuccessful ; while those who 
are equally zealous in propagating the principles of Independ- 
ency both in Church & State, have every possible indulgence ! 
When these things come to be considered by His Majesty and 
his Ministers, we flatter ourselves, that the trifling or malicious 
objections of our Adversaries will not be regarded. 

" The plan that has been long settled and agreed upon, we 
understand is that the Bishops to be sent us are to be invested 
only with those powers which are inseperable from their Office 
with Jurisdiction over none but the professors of the Church. 
They are to hold no Courts for the Trial of Testamentary or 



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Matrimonial Cases, they are not to interfere either witli our 
Provincial Governors or Subordinate Magistrates — nor to in-^ 
fringe or diminish any privileges & liberties enjoyed by any of 
the Layety, even of our own Communion. This plan is so uni- 
versally harmless and unexceptionable, that we think everv 
rolerable objection is effectually excluded. If any were to i)e 
injured, they would have reason to complain ; but since none 
can be harmed, and so many thousands will be greatly benefited, 
and probably the Salvation of many Souls is dependant upon it, 
in what light must the objections appear ? 

" Indeed it has been given out w^th great assurance that send- 
ing Bishops to America would disoblige by far the greatest part 
of the Inhabitants (no less than 19 in 20 is the proportion that 
has been mentioned) and consequently would be ill policy in 
the Government — But we who are upon the spot can see with 
our Eyes and hear with our Ears, and think ourselves capable 
of judging of the Fact; and we beg leave to assure the Society 
that the assertion is utterly false and groundless. Xone would 
be disobliged at all but the Presbyterians and Independents, to 
whom we may .join the Enemies of Revelation in general; and 
in our Opinion they all united do not exceed a third part of the 
whole. The Lutherans amounting to many thousands, vould 
not be disobliged — nor the Qual-ers who are more numerous r. 
and Avho fear not any influence or authority the Church may 
obtain, but actually dread the increasing power of the Presby- 
terians in this Country — so that it appears to us here that the 
badness of the Policy of granting our request, can be supported 
only on this principle; that it is more prudent to gratify one 
Enemy of the Church in a perverse & unreasonable humour, 
than two Friends of it in y® most equitable proposals. 

" If the Dissenters and their Adherents at home must nor be 
offended by assisting and supporting the Church in America : 
our case is, and we fear that of the Church of England soon will 
be truely deplorable. If the Enemies of our Ecclesiastical Con- 
stitution have already become so formidable by the Indulgences 
& Concessions that have been granted them & if those Indul- 
gences & Concessions must still be continued : we can form some 
judgment of their future power, from their past improvement. 



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285 



And we are sadly apprehensive that the time is not far distant 
when they will be able ; not only to prevent our having Bishops 
in America, but once more to exterminate Episcopacy through- 
out the Kingdom & subvert the Church ; in which case the 
State must again shift for itself as well as it can. 

" We are Eeverend Sir &c 
Myles Cooper President of ye Convention. 
"EiCHAED Charltox Samuel Seabury 

^' Isaac Browne Rob'^ INIcKean 

" CoLix Campbell Axdw Mortox 

" Samuel Auchmuty Leo Cutting 

" Sam^ Cooke John Ogilvie 

Tho« B Chandler." 



A SECOND, AND THIRD, LINE OF STAGES. 

'' In 1765, a second line of stages was ^ set up ^ at Philadel- 
phia, for Xew^ York, to start twice a week, and go through in 
three days at two pence per mile. The vehicle used was a 
covered Jersey wagon without springs ; — but the lapse of nine 
years seems not to have worked any increase of speed. The 
following year a third line of ^ good stage wagons, and the seats 
set on springs/ was established to go through in two days in 
summer and three in winter, at three pence per mile, or twenty 
shillings for the whole route. These lines, it is thought ran to 
the Blazing Star Ferry, on the sound below Elizabethtown. 
The wagons used w^ere modestly called ' Flying Machines ^ — and 
the title soon became a favorite." WhitekeacVs Perth Arnhoy. 



PASSED IN THE FIFTH YEAR OF GEORGE III. 

''^An Act to enable the Reverend Mr. Colin Campbell, the 
present Rector of Saint Mary^s Church in Burlington, with 
the Church-Wardens and Yestry-Men of said Church, or the 
major Part of them, to sell Two Hundred and Six Acres of 
Land in Somerset County, devised to the Ministry of said 
Church ; and to enable Trustees to put the same to Interest, 
until a convenient Glebe can be purchased near the said 
Church ; and other Purposes therein mentioned. 
" Sect. 1. Whereas, Thomas Leciter, late of Piscataway, in the 

Eastern Division of this Province of New Jersey, did, in and 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



by his last Will and Testament, give and bequeath unto the 
Church of Saint Ann, in Burlington, now Saint Mary's, for the- 
Use of the Ministry of said Church, Two Hundred and Six 
Acres of Land, lying and being upon Stony-Brook, in the said 
Eastern Division of this Colony. And Whereas, the Reverend 
Colin Campbell, the ]iresent Minister of said Saint Ann's, now 
Saint Mary's Church, hath presented a Petition to the Governor. 
Council and General Assembly of this Province, setting forth, 
that great Inconveniences have and do daily arise to the Minis- 
ter and Church, from the distant Situation of said Lands from 
the said Church, and that Waste may be committed, and the 
Estate lessened in Value, and the good Intentions of the Donor, 
for the Maintainance of the Minister of said Church, be in a 
great Measure frustrated ; and therefore praying Leave to bring 
in a Bill, to impower the Minister, Church-Wardens and Vestry- 
Men of said Church, or the major Part of them, to sell and 
dispose of the said Lands in Fee Simple, and to purchase for 
the Purposes in the said Will, other Lands nearer and more 
convenient to the said Church, and until the Produce of the said 
Two Hundred and Six Acres can be so laid out, that the same 
shall be put to Interest, and the Interest thereof applied yearl}^ 
to the Use of the Minister : And it seeming reasonable and 
highly convenient, that the said Lands, for the Reasons above 
set forth should be sold, and the Monies therefrom arising; 
should be applied in purchasing other Lands more convenient 
and better situate for the Uses in the said Will mentioned ; 

" 2. Be it Enacted by the Governor, Council and General 
Assembly, and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the 
same. That it shall and may be lawful, and the said Colin 
Campbell, together with the Church-Wardens and Vestry of 
said Church, or the major Part of them, (of whom the said Colin 
Campbell, or the Minister of said Church for the Time beings 
always to be one) are hereby authorized and impowered, to sell 
and convey the said Two Hundred and Six Acres, situate, lying 
and being at Stony-Brook, in the County of Somerset afore- 
said, * * 

3. And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid. That the 
Monies arising from the Sale of the said Lands, shall, by the 
Purchaser or Purchasers thereof, be paid into the Hands of the 
said Colin Campbell, John Lawrence, Esq ; and Edward Ton- 
kin, or any two of them, who are hereby impowered to receive 
the same ; and upon Receipt thereof, the same to pay and lay 
out in the Purchase of such Lands adjacent to the said Church, 
as will best answer the intentions of the said Thomas Leciter, 
and shall be approved of by the said Minister, Church- Wardens 



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and Vestry of said Chorch for the Time being, or the major 
Part of them, of whom the Minister for the Time being always 
to be One ; and the Deed or Deeds, Conveyance or Convey- 
ances, for the same Lands so purchased, shall be given and 
executed to the said Minister, Church-Wardens and Vestry-men 
of said Church forever, for the Use and Support of the Minister 
of said Church for the Time being, agreeable to the Bequest of 
the said Thomas Leciter, and to and for no other Use or Pur- 
pose whatsoever ; and until sach convenient Lands can be pur- 
chased, it shall and may be lawful for the said Colin Campbell, 
and the said John Lawrence and Edward Tonkin, to put the 
said Monies out to Interest, upon good real and personal Secu- 
rity, and the Interest yearly and every Year to receive, and the 
same to pay to the said Colin Campbell, or to the Minister of 
said Church for the Time being, whose Receipt or Receipts 
shall be a sufficient Discharge or Discharges to them, or either 
of them, for the Interest so paid.^' 

THE XEW STAMP ACT CAUSES MUCH ALARM. 

' ' - ^Mr. CampheU to the Seen tar i/. Extracts. 

'^Burlington, Dec^ 26'^^ 1765. 

"Rev^ Dear Sie: 

^ ^ "We have been much alarmed since the first of 
last Month that the New Stamp Act was to take place here by 
virtue of an Act of the British Parliament. * In 
this Province however they that have shown their dislike to the 
Act taking place ; have hitherto forbore these public violences 
that others have been guilty of. But business of all kinds 
seems to be stagnated & a general cry for want of Money and 
decay of Trade : and yet Provisions of all kinds are kept up so 
high at Market that it is with the utmost difficulty we of the 
Mission can support our Families with the utmost Economy : as 
I have little or nothing by way of. support from my Congrega- 
tions ; and a large Family of 6 Young Children to maintain 
cloath & educate, & Exchange has fell lately so much that I 
have lost 40 | Sterling on the Sale of my present half years Bill 
which I have now dravm upon the Society's Treasurer for 
payment. 

I have lately obtained an Act of our Assembly in this Pro- 
vince for the benefit of my Successor for the Sale of a Tract of 



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Land devised to my Church of Burlington in the year 1709 by 
way of Glebe cont- 200'^ and six Acres but being at the distance 
of thirty or forty Miles therefrom renders it of little value to 
the Mission here, but being sold & the Money arising from the 
Sale appropriated to the purchasing of Lands near this place; 
may be of much service to my Successor, tho' this is not a 
proper time to sell, yet being in power to sell may wait for a 
more proper opportunity. 

I am Rev'^ Dear Sir &c 

'^CoLix Campbell." 

A MAEKIAGE CERTIFICATE. 

" Burlington April 28^'^ 1766. 
" These do certify and declare to all whom it may concern, 
that Adam Sheppard,t and Margaret Burrs Widdow, both of 
this City, were this day lawfully married — according to the Rites 
and Ceremonies of the Church of England as by law" eslab 
lished, by virtue of a Lycence, of this date from his Excellency 
Vim. Franklin Esqr, our present Governor, in such case, directed 
to me ; I say married by me,, date and place as above. 

^'CoLix Ca'^^ipbell Clerk and 
— Onginal MS. Missiomtry- " 

ox FIRE ABOUT THE STAMP ACT. 

The Archhislwp of Canterbury to Rev. Dr. W. Smith of Pennsyl- 
vania — Aug. 2, 1766. Extract. 

" The beginning of last year we thought an ecclesiastical set- 
tlement of Quebec was almost made, on which a Bishop might 
easily be grafted. But that was opposed by one great man as 
too favourable, by another as not favourable, enough, to the 
Papists. Then the Ministry changed : we w^ere to begin again ; 
and could get nothing but fair words, though the King inter- 
posed for us. Xoy\^ it is changed once more, and whether we 
shall fare better or worse for it, I cannot guess. I have begged 
the Bishop of London to take out a Commission. He is back- 
ward ; but I hope at length to prevail, and then we may set up 
our Corresponding Societies. There were no improper exprcs- 



j The coachman of Governor Franklin. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



289 



sions in the Address of the Connecticut or of the Xew York and 
Xew Jersey clergy ; but they came when both yon and we were 
on lire about the fetamp Act ; and so were not presented. But 
the King was apprised of the contents of them, and desired they 
might be postponed." 

DEATH AXD BURIAL OF THE EEY. ME. CAMPBELL. 

In the Providence Gazette of August 23d, 1766, we have the 
following : 

Aug. 14. On Saturday last, (Aug. 9) died after a short Ill- 
ness, the Eev. Mr. Colix Campbell, many years Missionary 
at Burlington in Xew Jersey ; and on Sunday last he was in- 
terred in Burlington Church,t his Remains being attended to the 
Grave by a great Xumber of People of different Persuasions, 
assembled from various Parts of the Country, to testify their 
Regard to his Memory. A suitable Sermon was preached by 
the Rev. Dr. Smith, of Philadelphia ; who having introduced a 
short and just Character of the Deceased, in the following Para- 
graph, a Copy of it was requested to be here inserted, viz. : 

" Methinks according to the usual Mode, you now expect an 
'A^i^jDlication of this Subject, in a long and circumstantial Account 
of Him whose Dust we have just consigned to its kindred Dust. 
But I knew my worthy departed friend so well — such was his 
Abhorrence of the too frequent Prostitutions of Truth and Jus- 
tice, in many of our modern Characters of the Dead — that were 
he now alive, and to speak for himself, he would suffer no more 
to be said of him, but that — He endeavoured to be {'what you 
will all allow he was) a Man of strict and severe Honesty ; faith- 
ful in the Discharge of every Trust, and particularly of his most 
sacred Trust, as a Minister of the Gospel of JESUS. He was 
a Lover of Peace, and rather willing to bear any tolerable 
AVrong than ruffle the Serenity of his own Temper. His loss 
to you is great, but to his worthy bereaved Wife and Children, 
irreparable.^'t 

tAn original, life-size portrait (in oils) of the Eev. Colin Campbell, 
received from some of his descendants residing near Trenton, ZST. J., was 
placed in the sacristy of St. Mary's Church, in December, 1870. It represents 
its subject with a large white wig, and in academic gown, cassock and bands, 

jMr. Campbell had nine children, ^r7\'e daughters and /o?/.r sons. 



290 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



ox THE DEATH OF COLIX CAMPBELL. 
By Elizabeth Graeme.f 
[Daughter of Dr. Graeme, grand-daughter of Sir William KeitLj 

Shall vice and power claim the farewell tear, 
And shall it flow not, for the sonl sincere? 
Forbid it truth, forbid it honor too, 
And mark out Colin to our mortal view. 

The faithful pastor of a little flock, 
Plac'd in their hearts, he ne'er shall be forgot ;. 
Firm honesty ; his every deed did plan ; 
With pure religion join'd to form the man. 

His social virtues, strong I could paint forth, 
The tender parent, and the husband's worth :; 
Domestic bliss his house did still aflord ; 
A hearty welcome from a cheerful board : 

What e'er he gave he freely did impart, 
And shared his bounty with an open heart; 
The best affections in his mind did blend. 
Too well I feel he was the steady friend. 

The starting tear does here that truth reveal. 
Nor wish the honest weakness to conceal ; 
The struggling sigh will heave for those we love. 
Though faith beholds them with blest saints above. 
Dated Graeme Park, 

dOth Oct. 17 C)Q. ■ ^ ^ _ ■ —Providence Gazette. 

' - — —'-^ 

REV. NATHANIEL EVANS OFFICIATING OCCASIONALLY. 

The Rev. Mr. Evans, a short time missionary at Glouces- 
ter, officiated occasionally at Burlington, during the vacancy 
occasioned by Mr. Campbell's death. He died early, but estab- 
lished by his zeal and fidelity, the character given him by the 
Society, of ' a pious promising young gentleman.' In a letter 
dated 'Haddonsfield, New Jersey Dec. 12, 1766,' he writes to 
the Secretary, have been to Egg Harbour and travelled the 
Shore over, which is full 30 miles long & preach'd daily always 
using the Common Prayer. * * I preached in two 
Dissenting Meeting Houses twice, at the peoples request ; and 
made use of the Liturgy, with which the people appeared well 
pleased.' He adds : ^My present situation is in the centre of 
Quakers, who are a majority of people in this County & with 
whom I live in great harmony and in an intercourse of mutual 
civility.'" 



t Afterwards, the celebrated Mrs. Ferguson. 



IN BURLINGTON. 291 

THE society's LANDS AT BUELIXGTON. 

Mr. Evans to the Secretary. Extract. 

'^Haddoosfielcl, Jany 20, 1767. 

Rea^erexd Sir : 

* * I obtained at Burlington a Certified Copy of 

Surveys of sundry Parcels of Land the Society's property which 
I thought might be of service to enclose. The first and last of 
which are held at present without any equitable claim by others. 
If the Society should see proper to transmit to any person here 
their Power of Attorney, there could be no difficulty in dis- 
possessing the present holders as the Title is indisputably clear, 
these two parcels are thought to be worth at least £250 this 
Currency. 

Rev^ Sir &c 

'^Nath^ Evans." 

the eey. joxathax odell, a., eector.f 

In the Parish Register ^ in the handwriting of Mr. Odell, is 
this record : 

^'Jonathan Odell, M. A., was appointed, by the Society for 
propagating the gospel in foreign parts, to succeed Mr. Camp- 
bell, as Missionary at Burlington, Decem'r. 2oth, 1766, and he 
arrived at Burlington, on the 25th of July, 1767, and was the 
next day regularly inducted into St. Ann's (now St. Mary's.' 
Church, in the said city of Burlington, by his Excellency Wm. 
Franklin, Esqr., Governor of the Province of New-Jersey ."j 

f Mr. Odell was born at Newark, N. J., Sept. 25th, 1737; was M. A. of 
Nassau Hall ; educated for the Medical profession, and served as vSurgeon in the 
British Army; left the Army while stationed in the West Indies, went to Eng- 
land, and prepared for Holy Orders. He was ordained Deacon, Dec. 21st, 
1766, in the Chapel Eoyal of St. James' Palace, Westminster, by the Kt. Eev. 
Dr. Terrick, Bishop of London ; and in January 1767, he was advanced to 
Priest's orders. 

% Induction, in the Church of England, is thus performed : The Inductor, 
on the day appointed, goes with the new Incumbent to the Church, and taking 
his hand places it upon the key in the Church door, saying, " I induct you 

into the real and actual possession of the Eectory of vrith all its profits 

and appurtenances." Then he opens the door, and puts the rector in possession 
of the Church, who offers his private devotions, and then tolls the bell to sum- 
mon his parishioners. Hook's Church Dictionary. 



/ 



292 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 

THE CHURCH VERY MUCH OUT OF REPAIR. 

Odell to the Secretary. Extract. 

"Burlington October 2^ 1767. 

" Reverend Sir: 

^ ^ u There are in Burlington about 200 Families of 
Inhabitants, of which number we may rate about one in four 
to belong to the Church of England ; the rest except three or 
four Presbyterians are all Quakers. There is a considerable 
number from the Country in the [N'eighbourhood of the Town, 
who also attend Divine Service at Church where they all behave 
decentli/ d' not a feiv devoutli/. The Church itself is very much 
out of repair : but a Lottery having been some time since 
granted by the Provincial Legislature in order to facilitate the 
necessary reparations, I hope to be able ere long to give you an 
Account of the accomplishment of that undertaking. I should 
have mentioned before that the Parishioners at Mount Holly are 
at least as numerous as those at Burlington and likewise give a 
decent devout attention to the publick Worship. 
" I am Reverend Sir &g 

"JoN^' Odell."' 

A MLSTAKE CORRECTED. 

3Tr. Odell to the Secretary. Extract. 

"Burlington Jany 6^ 1768. 

"Reyere^^d Sir: 

* " AVhen I wrote my former Letter I was mis- 
taken with regard to the number of Communicants in Burling- 
ton & Mount Holly. At an Administration of the Holy 
Sacrament here soon after my arrival there were 35 Communi- 
cants which I then supposed to belong all to the Parish of 
Burlington ; but I found upon a more particular inquiry that 
the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper had never been administered 
in the Church at Mount Holly & that it had hitherto been 
usual for the Communicants of both parishes to assemble on 
Sacrament Days at Burlington. * 

" I beg leave to subscribe myself &c 

" Jo2s^' Odell.'' 



IN BUELINGTON. 



293 



THE NAMES OF THE CHUECH IN BURLINGTON. 

On the outside of the vellum cover of the first Parish Regis- 
ter, we have the title, paeish eegistee of st. maey's 
CHUECH, buelington.^' On the inside of the same cover, 
quite near the top, we find these words : " The Register of the 
Church of St. Ann's at Burlington." Immediately under this 
is the following : 

"Memoeandum. This Church was called S* Ann's (in the 
first Charter, granted Octob'' 4"' 1704 by Lord Cornbury) after 
the name of the Queen ; but when a more ample charter was 
granted in 1709, Janu^ 25th, by Lieu* Governor Ingoldsby, the 
Church was called Mary's, and so continues to be denomi- 
nated, on account of its first foundation-stone having been laid 
on the 25*^ of March, which was in 1703, but this, it seems, was 
not adverted to till afterwards — 

'^JoN"" Odell. 

" April 7* 1768." 

Mr. Odell had been in Burlington but a little more than 
eight months, when he made the above memorandum; and was 
probably unacquainted with all the facts which appear in the 
letters of Mr. Talbot, and the ' History ' of Mr. Bass, those 
papers having been copied in England and brought back to 
America, in the year 1836, (See pp. 6 and 127). Mr. Talbot 
in his letter of ' April 10th, 1703,' (See p. 33) says : ' I laid the 
corner stone of St. Mary^s Church ;' and in his letter of May 3d 
of the same year, (See p. 36) he says : ^ I was at Burlington last 
Lady day, and after prayers we went to the Ground where they 
were going to build a Church, and I laid the first stone. * * 
We called this Church St. Mary^s, it being upon her day.' 

In his ^History of the Church at Burlington,^ (See p. 127) 
Mr. Bass who, as well as Mr. Talbot, was personally acquainted 
with every step of its progress from the beginning, writes, (See 
p. 129) ^The Church of St. Mary in Burlington had the founda- 
tion-stone laid on the 25th of March, 1703 ; being a day sacred 
to the memory of the Annunciation of the Conception of our 
Blessed Saviour to the Virgin Mary, iddch gave name to the 
Church.^ 



294 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



He further writes, (See p. 130) : "The members began to thiuk 
it convenient to form themselves into a regular Society, according 
to the Law and Customs of England, and thereupon addressed 
themselves to his Excellency, Lord Cornbury, (since Earl of 
Clarendon,) her Majesty's Governor, who on the 4th of Oct., 
1704, [the date first referred to in the above Memorandum of 
Mr. Odell,] granted his Warrant for a Patent,'' etc. A copy of 
this we have, on p. 130, wherein the name "St. Annes'' appears. 

Moreover Mr. Bass writes, (See p. 133): "In 1709, the 
Government devolved upon Col. Richard Ingoldsby, under 
whose administration, our Vestry (that by some unaccountable 
neglect, had omitted to pass the charter designed for its, by the Earl 
of Clarendon,) [Lord Cornbury,] got it now passed, under the 
Broad Seal of this Province, whereby they became incorporated 
by the name of the Minister, Church- Wardens, and Vestry of 
the Church of St. Maey in Burlington; which was enrolled in 
the Secretary's Office, the 25th of January, 1709," (the other 
date referred to in the above Memorandum of Mr. Odell.) 
From all which we find, that Mr. Talbot named the Church St, 
Mary^s, when he laid the first stone in 1703; that Lord Corn- 
bury, in his Warrant for a Patent of Incorporation in 1704, called 
it St. Ann''s, but this charter never having passed, it was never 
legally St. Ann's; and that in 1709, the year after Lord Corn- 
bury was superseded, the charter was passed, wherein, not St- 
Anas, the name 'designed ' for the Church by Cornbury, but St* 
Mary's, the name given it at the first, became its name in law. 

It will be observed, that neither here, nor elsewhere, except 
in the Will of M'"^ Talbot, (See pp. 2^6-8) is there any allusion to 
the name St. James, as belonging to the Church in Burlington. 

THE QUAKERS THE MOST FRIEXDLY OF ALL DISSENTERS. 

Jlr. Odell to the Secretary. Extracts. 

"Burlington, July 5, 1768. 

" Reverend Sir ; 

"I think it my duty to represent to the Society 
the importance of a Mission at Trenton. There is no other 
Episcopal Church on the Great Road between Burlington 6c 
Brunswick; a distance of more than 40 Miles. Within the 



IN BUELINGTON. 



295 



memory of many Persons yet liviog, the Inhabitants of Trenton 
<fe the country for some distance round it were chiefly Members 
of the Church of England ; the few Dissenters that were among 
them were mostly Quakers, a people, in this Country, of all 
Dissenters the most friendly to those of our Communion. * 
In a former Letter I acquainted the Society that agreeably 
to my instructions, I had concluded with the People here to 
attend Divine Service of the two Churches of Burlington & 
Mount Holly alternately, upon condition, as stipulated in your 
Letter to the Wardens & Vestries of both Parishes that they of 
Mount Holly would contribute adequately to my support. They 
have since come to an Agreement & have agreed to give yearly 
at least £26 Currency, which I doubt not will be punctually 
paid & that they will exceed rather than fall short of that Sum. 
The Eents of the Parsonage Lot & House together with a Farm 
at some distance in the Country belonging to the Church in 
Burlington amount to £1:2: 10. in Currency; besides which the 
Vestry at a late Meeting proposed to allow me as much as they 
should be able to procure by way of subscription from the 
Congregation. 

" I am &o 

^'Jo2^^' Odell.'^ 

MAEEIAGE OF THE EEV. MR. FRAZER. 

July 13th, 1768. The Pvev. Wm. Frazer of Amwell, and 
Kebecca Campbell of Burlington, were lawfully joined together 
in marriage at Burlington, by Jonathan Odell, minister." Par- 
ish Begister. 

A yOLUXTARY COXVEXTIOX. 

'^A voluntary convention was held in Xew Brunswick Oct. 
12th, 1768, at which were present among others the Rev'd. 
Messrs. Odell, Frazer, Thomson and Seabury, who, ^ considering 
maturely the distressed situation of many of the widows and 
children of the Episcopal Clergy in America, who by reason of 
the smallness of their income are not only disabled from making 
any future provision for their families, but are scarcely able 
with the greatest economy to support them with a decency 
becoming their characters even during their lives,' agreed upon 



296 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCPI 



a scheme for their relief which they submitted to the Venerable 
Society. The document containing the plan is quite an elabo- 
rate one, with sixteen articles." 

MR. ODELL TO SOLICIT A CHARTER. 

In 1769, the Rev. Mr. Odell was appointed one of a com- 
mittee, of two in each of the three provinces of New York, New 
Jersey and Pennsylvania, to solicit the passing of the charter for 
the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of 
deceased clergymen, in said provinces^, His Excellency, Gov. 
Franklin, of New Jersey, readily ordered the seal affixed to it, and 
the charter for New Jersey was completed in May of that year. 

THE CORPORATIOX FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND OR- 
PHANS OF CLERGYMEN, CHARTERED. 

The charter for this Corporation constituted Rev. Richard 
Peters, of Phila., President, Rev. Thos. B. Chandler, D. D., of 
Elizabeth town, Treasurer, and Rev. Jonathan Odell, of Bur- 
lington, Secretary. 

The first Tuesday after the Feast of St. Michael, the charter 
day as fixed by the letters patent, fell in 1769, upon the 3cb 
October; and in that month of Apathetic loveliness,' in the tran- 
quil town of Burlington, a place ever deserving the interest of 
Churchmen in America, as having been designated for the fi.rst 
American Episcopal See — where the first Episcopal residence 
was purchased, and where the first bishop who was ever on this 
continent resided — our Corporation first assembled. Clerical 
members had travelled from New York, Pennsylvania, and 
several parts of New Jersey, to be present ; and among the 
representatives at this earliest meeting was John Lawrence, 
Esq., Mayor of Burlington. ^ The President having taken 
the chair, the different charters were read and compared with 
each other. On the day following, the members who were 
met being nineteen in number, presented an address of thanks 
to his Excellency Gov. Franklin, which he answered with 
the warmest wishes for the success of the pious design for 
which the Corporation had been erected, and added that, it would 
always give him pleasure to render any acceptable service to the 
members of the Church of England.' This address and the 



m BURLINGTON. 



297 



reply are set cut in the early minute-book of the Society, kept 
with remarkable beauty of chirography by the first secretary 
Mr. Odell.^t Wallace's Sketch, pp. 18-19. 

THE CHUECH BUILDING EKLAEGED. 

In 1769, the building was extended AVestward, with the 
addition of a gallery, and this, although the town itself had 
increased but little, if at all. 

"The Society is informed by the Rev. Mr. Odell, that the 
Church at Burlington is completed, and is not only a comfort^ 
able building, but an ornament to the place, being 63 feet by 
33. Governor Franklin was very liberal on the occasion, and 
his lady has made them a present of a very rich and elegant 
furniture for the pulpit, desk and table." j 

MRS. Campbell's acknowledgments. 
3I)\ Odell to the Secretary. Extract. 

'^Burlington, N. Jersey, April 6, 1769. 

^' Reverend Sir : 

" I have this moment received your very kind favor dated 
Dec"" 14, 1768, for which I beg you to accept my warmest 
thanks, together with those of M''^ Campbell who also takes the 
liberty through your hands of presenting her grateful acknowl- 
edgements to the Society for the favor done her in allowing her 
to draw for £25 over and above the Salary due to her late Hus- 
band at the time of his death. 

" I am the more in haste to dispatch this Answer to your 
obliging Letter because in my last Dec"" 31'^ my concern for the 
Widow led me to express an apprehension that in the multipli- 
city of your more important affairs M'' Campbell's Application 
to the Society had escaped your Notice. I therefore now seize 

IMr. Odell was Secretary of this Corporation from 1769 to 1774. 

.t A new bell also, was hung in the belfry. It is still (1876) rang, and lears 
this inscription: *'sT. mart's church in Burlington. 1769." 



298 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



the opportunity offered me by Capf" Trent (who sets off in a few 
Hours) to beg your pardon for such a groundless apprehension. 
I am Reverend Sir, 

^' Your most obed* Serv* 

A FURTHER ADDITION TO THE BURYING-GROUXD. 

On the 5^^ of August, 1769, Doctor Jonathan Smith conveyed 
to the " Minister, Wardens, and Vestrymen of Saint Mary's 
Church" a " Piece of Ground bounded & limited as follows^ 
viz., on the South by a Line, beginning at the North-East Cor- 
ner of the Burying-ground now belonging to Saint Mary's 
Church & running along the Fence, as it now stands on the 
North side of the said Burying-ground, to the North- West Cor- 
ner of the same : thence by a line running Northward fifteen 
foot along the Fence which now bounds the Western side of a 
Lott belonging to the said Jonathan Smith & adjoining to the 
North side of the Burying-ground aforesaid ; and thence by a 
straight line running Eastward to the Place of beginning," 
u Provided always (and it is the Consideration for which the 
Premises are granted & conveyed as aforesaid) that * * 
the said Minister Wardens & Vestrymen shall 
within the space of five years next ensuing the date of these 
Presents, erect * * upon the whole length of the 
Boundary Line last above mentioned, a good and sufficient 
Brick wall, five foot high & nine inches thick, * * 
and that after the completion of the said wall, the said Jonathan 
Smith his Heirs and assigns shall be forever thereafter exempted 
from all Demands on account of Partition fences between his 
said Lott & the Burying-ground aforesaid." The "Indenture" 
for this, was "Sealed & delivered in presence of William 
Smith " and " Thomson Neale ;" and acknowledged, the same 
day, before "Rob* Smith one of the Judges of the Court of 
Comon Pleas for the County of Burlington." — Original Deed, 



IN BURLINGTON. 



299 



SIGNATURES OF ATTESTATION. 

At the foot of each page of the Parish Begister, beginning 
with the rectorship of Mr. Odell — for ten consecutive pages — 
there is this : 

JoN^' Odell Minister 

u All 1 J 1 ( William LYXDoxt 1 jjr . „ 
"Attested by | Abr" Hewlixgs ' | 

In the collections of the Sussex, (England) Archaeological 
Society/^ — writes one who has examined them X — " I have found 
an explanation of the custom of the clergyman and church war- 
dens signing their names at the foot of the page in the Parish 
Register. I think your records are rare instances of it being 
done in this country, as it is not to be found in the Registers of 
Christ Church, Philadelphia.'^ 

The writer in this article of the Sussex Collection, p. 23, Vol. 
xxii, the Rev. E. B. EUman, M. A., says Church Registers 
' date from the 30th year of the reign of Henry YIII. It is 
however much to be feared that notwithstanding Lord Crom- 
well's strict injunctions for the safe keeping of these valuable 
records, and the protestation which every incumbent was obliged 
to make when instituted to a benefice during the reign of Eliza- 
beth, that ' hee would keep the Register book according to the 
Queen's Majesty's Injunctions ' much carelessness in their cus- 
tody during the reigns of Edward YI, Mary, and Elizabeth, 
comprehending a period of about 100 years, was found to have 
taken and some falsification to have been practised ; to prevent 
the possibility of which for the future, a reinforcement of Lord 
Cromwell's original -injunctions of 1538, which had been lost 
sight of, became necessary ; and this was affected by means of 
the 70th Canon of our Church, which was ordained the first of 
James I (1603). By this Canon it was ordered that the Church 
Book shall be kept in the parish church in a coffer or chest, to 
be provided at the charge of each parish. These coffers were to 
be provided with three locks and the same number of keys, and 
of these keys one was directed to remain with the minister, and 
the other two with the churchwardens severally. And the 
Canon then goes on to direct that henceforth, upon every Sab- 
bath-day, immediately after morning or evening service, the 
minister and churchwardens should take the book, which was 

t "William Lyndon, one of the Wardens of this Church, died on the 3d, 
and was buried on the 5th day of May, 1770 ; Burlington." Parish Begister. 

;Mr, Wm. John Potts, of Camden, X. J. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



directed to be of parchment or of very stout paper, out of the 
coffer; and in the presence of such wardens the minister was to 
write and record in it the names of all parties christened, to- 
gether with the names and surnames of their parents and also 
the names of all persons married or buried during the preceding 
week and the day and year on which any such event occurred. 
And having done this, they were again to replace the book in 
the coffer, and keep it until the next Sunday under the same 
regulation of locks and keys. Each page when filled was to be 
signed at the foot with their names. The Canon then further 
provides for attested copies of such entries being sent once in 
every year to the Bishop's Registry. These coffers were the 
origin of our Church chests, some of these chests indeed, were 
original coffers, having their treble locks and keys in a perfect 
and efficient state.' " 

OFFERIJs^GS FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS OF 
DECEASED CLERGYMEN. 

In 1770 there was a donation to the "Corporation for the 
Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Clergymen," from 
Governor Franklin, of £10; and a contribution from St. Mary's 
Church of £5, and 8s. 

TPIE REV. GEO. WHITFIELD IN BURLINGTON. 

In 1770, Craft's MS. of Daily Occurrences'' has this item: 
" 6 mo. 16 dy. The great Calvinistic preacher George White- 
field, preacht before the Court House. Great audience. Deal 
of humour, &c." 

" METHODISTIC EMISSARIES TAKING UNCOMMON PAINS." 

3Ir. Odell to the Secretary, Extract. 

''Burlington June 28, 1771. 

" Reverend Sir, 

^ * ''The state of Religion in general in my MissioD 
continues to be not unpromising notwithstanding some incon- 
veniences arising from time to time among us from the frequent 
Visits that are made us by a number of methodistic Emissaries 
who are taking uncommon pains to get footing in this Country. 
I have hitherto been in hopes that their diligence may be de- 
feated by letting the Novelty pass without any open warmth of 



IN BURLINGTOiSr. 



301 



opposition, which might inflame the weak but honest minded 
few, who for a while are apt to admire those Itenerants, but may 
be expected ere long to change their admiration into indiff- 
erence. 

" I am Sir &c 

'^JoN^ Odell.'^ 

A FELLOW OF ST. JOHn's COLLEGE BURIED. 

Rev"^ M' Jonathan Downes, Late a Fellow of John's 
College, and Rector of Peter's in Barbados, was buried Ocf 
14, 1771, at Burlington." Parish Begister. 

[This was a brother of Mrs. Franklin, the wife of the 
Governor.] 

MARRIAGE OF THE REV. MR. ODELL. 

Married— May 6'^^ 1772, Rev^' Jonathan Odell & Anne De 
Cou were married at Burlington by me — W"^ Thomson Miss^ at 
Trenton." Parish Register. 

PUBLICATION OF THE BANXS OF MARRIAGE. 

Among the last few leaves of the Parish Register ^ there are 
two pages in the handwriting of Mr. Odell, headed, Register 
of the Publication of the Banns of Marriage; " under which, 
from January 1768, to February 1773, there are entries thirty 
couples " published " — each three successive times. One of 
these — as a sample of the rest — reads: "1770, Novem'' 25^'' & 
Decern^- 2^^ & 9"^— Thomson jS^eale & Mary Moon, both of 
Burlington." 

MR. ODELL DECLINES THE CONTRIBUTION OF HIS CONGRE- 
GATION. 

In the Report of the S. P. G.^s proceedings for 1773, there is 
this passage : " The Rev. Mr. Odell, who generously declined 
the intended contribution of his congregation at Burlington, 
until the debt contracted by rebuilding their Church should be 
discharged, acquaints the Society that this event hath taken 
place, and that the Vestry have now agreed to pay him for the 
future £30 currency, nearly equal to £19 sterling a year. The 



302 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 

people at Mount Holly have been punctual in their payment of 
£26 currency, so that the whole Mission annually contributes 
about £35 sterling. [The Society paid £50 sterling.] He is 
in hopes of prevailing with his people to raise a sum of money 
among themselves, which, though but £100, might be put out 
to interest, and by accumulating would in time amount to such 
a sum as would support their minister with less assistance from 
the Society." 

THE LOTS OF GROUXD IX BURLIXGTOX. 

JTr. Odell to the Secretary. Extract. 

''Burlington July 5, 1774. 

^' Reveeexd Sir, 

" In ans\yer to my request respecting the Lots of Ground 
in Burlington purchased by Gov'' Hunter you are pleased 
to inform me ' that the Society how much soever they might 
be inclined to indulge me, in this request do not at present 
think themselves at liberty so to do ; ' and that their doubts 
upon this head arise from a circumstance intimated in my Letter, 
the Lots in question being ' appropriated to the use of an Ameri- 
can Bishop whenever one shall be appointed; and wdience the 
profits arising from the Lands in the meantime are supposed to 
be also appropriated to the same use.' Whether this be so or 
not can be known as you observe only by having recourse to the 
original Deed of Conveyance. And 'if I can convince the 
Society, from thence,, that the fact is otherwise and that the 
Society have the power, you kindly tell me in conclusion, that 
you believe I may depend upon their inclination to oblige me.^ 

" Whatever determination the Society may come to concerning 
this matter, the assurance of their inclination in my favor will be 
thankfully remembered by me ; for I can truly declare that I 
value the good opinion & approbation of that Venerable Body 
much more than I should value a meer addition to my income. 

" The original Deed of Conveyance is I suppose in England : 
but there is a Copy of it upon Record here in the Provincial Sec- 
retary's Office from which it appears that those Lots are con- 
veyed to Gov'' Hunter his Heirs & Assigns ^ to and for the only 
proper use benefit and behoof of the Society for the propagation 



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of the Gospel tic' \Yithout any manner of reserve or limitation,. 
We have it is true in this Country a tradition, and only a tradi- 
tion (which however is I suppose founded in fact) that the pur- 
chase was made with a view of providing a place of Residence 
for an American Bishop, whose appointment seems to have been 
at that time daily expected. There was then upon one of the 
Lots in a pleasant situation a very large and commodious Man- 
sion House, which if the expected establishment of our Episco- 
pate had taken place would probably have been appropriated to 
the use of the Bishop. But as it happened, unfortunately for the 
interest of Religion in this Country, that the Society had not the 
opportunity of putting the House to that use; they assigned it 
for a Dwelling House to jNP AVeyman, their Missionary at Bur- 
lington, who lived in it, if I am rightly informed, until by some 
Accident, it took Fire and was entirely destroyed. M^ Camp- 
bell, my immediate predecessor, succeeded M"" Weyman in the 
Mission, and was allowed to enjoy the Rents of the Ground for 
near 30 years, to the time of his death. * * 
I am Rev^ Sir &c 

DE. ODELL ADMITTED TO MEMBEESHIP IX THE MEDICAL 

SOCIETY. 

At a general meeting of the Xew Jersey Medical Society, 
held at Princetown, November, the 8'^ 1774, the Rev. Odell 
presented himself a candidate for admission into this Society,, 
who being well-known by many of the Society as a regular 
practitioner,t and being well recommended, he was, without the 
usual mode of examination, admitted unanimously a men:iber. 
and took his seat accordingly. 

Voted, unanimously by this Board, that, as at the two pre- 
ceding meetings, motions have been made for an application to 
the Governor of the Province for a Charter of Incorporation:, 
for the members of this Society, they do now proceed with spirit 
in their endeavors to obtain it; and for that end, do constitute 
and appoint Doctors Odell, Cochran and Barnet a committee to- 



t According to Craft's MS. of " Daily Occurrences;^ Dr. Odell began the prac- 
tice of Medicine in Burlington, July 25th, 1771. 



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confer with the Attorney General, or any other gentleman who 
may assist them in the affair, and they are to endeavor to carry 
the design into execution in the most ample and expeditious 
way/^ Transactions of N. J. Medical Society, p. 37. 

GOV. FRANKLIX REMOVES TO PERTH AMBOY. 

^'In 1774, Gov. Franklin removed to Perth Amboy. The 
task undertaken by a governor of one of the provinces of Great 
Britain w^as one of great difficulty. His difficulties were greatly 
increased by the persistent attempt of the king, and his minis- 
ters and parliament, to tax the people of the colonies, without 
the consent of their representatives, which they were resolute in 
resisting. He seems to have been an amiable man, and to have 
performed his duty, wdth so much forbearance and good temper 
as to have become quite as popular as any governor could be. 
He was earnest in his endeavors to promote the welfare of the 
province. He purchased and improved a farm, imported from 
England agricultural implements, and collected one of the best 
libraries in the province. He was a handsome and very agree- 
able man, abounding in facetious anecdote, and thus resembling 
his father. That father continued on good terms with him until 
the war was in active progress. His last visit to him was after 
he removed to Perth Amboy in 1774. They then discussed the 
controversy between the mother country and her colonies. They 
were far from agreeing. No man in America was more fully 
resolved upon resistance, at whatever cost, than the elder Frank- 
lin. The son, who disapproved the earlier measures of the 
British ministry, was still mindful of his oath as a royal gover- 
nor ; and remained a thorough government man, deeming the 
opposition of the colonists more mad than the measures of the 
ministry.^' Elmer^s Biographical Sketches, p. 52. 

FUND FOR MAINTAINING AN ORTHODOX MINISTER OF THE 
CHURCH OF ENGLAND. 

" We the Subscribers do promise to pay, on Demand, into the 
hands of the Church Wardens of Marys Church in Burling- 
ton, or Either of them, the Several Sums affixed to Our Names, 
in Order to establish a Fund for maintaining an Orthodox Min- 



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ister of the Church of England in the Service of St. Mary's 
Church ill Burlington aforesaid ; the Interest of which Fund is 
:at all times hereafter to be at the Sole Disposal of the Wardens 
and Yestry of the said Church, for the use aforesaid. Witness 
Our hands the thirteenth day of March, 1775. 

^^Dan Ellis, £15:0:0; John Tonkin, 10:0:0; Jn° Lawrence. 
15:0:0; Jacob Perkins, 6:0:0; Jam How, 15:0:0; Abraham 
Heulings, 15:0:0; John Neale, 3:0:0 ; Arent Schuyler, 10:0:0 ; 
William Gamble, 6:0:0; John Fort, 4:0:0; Thomas P. Hew- 
lings, 10:0:0; William Heulings, 10:0:0; Daniel Hancock, 
^6:0:0; Thomas Neale, 5:0:0; Mary Tonkin, 10:0:0; Edward 
Ivemble, 10:0:0 ; William Newbold, 15:0:0; R. Strettel Jones, 
15:0:0; Jos: Bloomfield, (provided the Wardens & Vestry are 
-elected by the Parishoners,) 15:0:0; William Smith, 5:0:U ; 
Wm. Coxe,jun., 10:0:0 ; Jacob Perkins, 3:0:0; Isaac Perkins, 
3:0:0; William Perkins, 3:0:0; Rob^ Lucas, 3:0:0; George 
Painter, 6:0:0 ; Thomas Hancock, 3:0:0." — Parish Archives. 

DR. ODELL PRACTICES MEDICINE TO MAINTAIN HIS FAMILY. 

Dr. Odell to the Secretarij. Extract. 

"Burlington April 17, 1775. 

^' Reverend Sir, 

" * " In the conclusion of your Letter (for the polite 
and friendly manner of which I sincerely offer you my thanks) 
you intimate that ^the opinion entertained by some Members of 
the Society in respect to the value of my Mission ' had been an 
obstacle to the obtaining of my request concerning the Lots in 
Burlington. In answer to which I must beg leave to observe 
that notwithstanding the value of my Mission I should actually 
iind it difficult, if possible, to maintain my Family which is a 
growing one,t did I not call into my aid the practice of Physick, 
ibr which Profession I was originally educated. And even with 
the addition which that has made to my Income (though I can 

t The Parish Register has these entries : "Baptized, April 21st 1773 at Bur- 
lington, Mary, first-born of Jonathan Odell and Anne his Wife, born the 19th 
■of March preceding." 

Baptized— Novr 13—1774 William Franklin, 2d Child of Jonathan & 
Anne Ddell— born Octr 19." 

U 



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truly declare that I have all along made it a point to avoid every 
unnecessary Expence) I am now but just out of Debt. It is pain- 
ful to a mind susceptible of any ingenuous feelings to be drawn 
as it w^ere to make a boast of such things as ought rather to be 
left for the generous discovery or the candid acknowledgement 
of others. * * 

Rev^ Sir &q 

" JoN^ Odell.'' 

DR. ODELL, CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE TO PRESENT A 

CHARTER. 

At a general meeting of the New Jersey Medical Society^ 
held at New Brunswick, May 9th 1775, it appearing on the last 
minutes, that Doctors Cochran, Odell and Barnet were appointed 
to present a petition to the Governor and Council for a Charter 
of Incorporation for this Society, Doctors Cochran and Barnet 
being present, were called upon and do report, that they did 
(pursuant to their appointment') present a petition, with a copy 
of a Charter, and some objections w^ere made to the Charter, 
which they mentioned. And thereupon it was agreed by the 
Society that the Charter should be carefully inspected and 
amended, and again presented at Burlington, the next Conven-- 
tion of the Governor and Council, by the following gentlemen, , 
viz.. Doctors Odell, Cochran, Burnet, Smith, AYiggins and Bain- 
bridge, or any three of them." Transactions of N. J. Medical 
Society, p. 38. 

STATE OF THE CHURCH IX NEW JERSEY. 

In the year 1775, we find the following : "The state of the 
Church in New Jersey is of late become a very respectable one, 
through the charitable interposition of the Society. The Mis- 
sionaries are all unblaraeable in their conduct, and some of them 
eminently useful. Instead of the small buildings, out of repair,, 
in which the congregations used to assemble twenty years ago, 
they have now several that make a handsome appearance, both 
for size and decent ornament, particularly at Burlington, Shrews- 
bury, New Brunswick and Newark; and all the rest are in 



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good repair ; and the congregations in general appear to be as 
much improved as the churches they assemble in. 

" The Society are indebted for this agreeable intelligence to 
their very excellent missionary Dr. Chandler, of Elizabethtown,'^ 

OUTBREAK OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

The causes which resulted in sundering the colonies from the 
Mother country, were complex and, some of them, secret. The 
''religious element entered more largely into them than many 
suppose. The unpublished MSS., on both sides, show that they 
extended through a long period of time. More than seventy 
years before armed hostilities commenced, John Talbot, in a 
letter to his friend, uttered a prophetic warning. See his re- 
markable words, on p. 33, under date 10th April, 1703. 

To supply a link in these papers, we quote the familiar facts 
from Whitens Universal History : 

''The contest began at Lexington in the spring of 1775, by a 
skirmish, between the British troops and the armed provincials, 
for the possession of certain magazines. At the same time the 
deputies assembled at Philadelphia, assuming the title of ' Con- 
gress of the United Colonies of North America,' resolved upon 
raising an army for the defence of the country, and issued a 
paper currency for its payment. The first battle was fought at 
Bunker's Hill, near Boston, on the 17th June; and though 
neither side could boast of any decisive success, the royal troops 
suffered severely, and the real advantage remained with their 
antagonists. George Washington, who had acquired consider- 
able military reputation in the late colonial war with France, 
now received from congress the command in chief of the insur- 
gent forces." 

"ministers of THE CHURCH BOUND TO PROMOTE PEACE." 

Br. Odell to the Secretary. Extract 

" Burlington July 7, 1775. 

" Reverend Sir, 

" The Society will doubtless, expect from their Missionaries, at 
this important & melancholly crisis every effort of prudent zeal 
in the discharge of their duty, as Ministers of the Church, 



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always bound to promote as far as in them lies, a spirit of peace 
and good order among the Members of their Communion. At 
the same time the Society cannot be unacquainted with the diffi- 
culties under which we now labor in this Country. But I think 
it unnecessary for me to trouble the Society upon this distressful 
topic ; because they will receive every needful information from 
better hands; and in particular from an Address of the Philadel- 
phia Clergy to the Bishop of London, to which Address I beg 
leave to refer you, for a just & true representation of the present 
state of the Church and of the situation of the Clergy in general 
in these Colonies. We think it of the utmost importance to the 
general good of the British Empire, that these matters should be 
thus truly stated and we most ardently pray that in these per- 
plexing & alarming troubles, we may by prudence & integrity 
of conduct contribute our mite towards obtaining a recovery and 
securing the future permanency of that harmony & peace upon 
just and practicable grounds, which is essential to the happiness 
& glorv of the whole Empire. * * 

" I am Rev Sir, &c 

Jo.N^ Odell." 

T^\^0 LETTEES OF DR. ODELL SEIZED. 

''In Oct. 1775, a man named Christopher Carter, was arrested 
on his departure for England and his papers seized by the 
local committee of Inspection and Observation. Among them 
were two letters from Dr. Odell ; one anonymous, addressed to 
the Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Chandler, London, the other signed 
'Jon. Odell,' directed to 'Mrs. Bullock, Brixton Causeway, 
Surry, near Westminster.' The Committee having taken the 
Doctor's parole not to leave the city, referred the matter to the 
Council of Safety, before whom he appeared Oct. 8th. The 
Council resolved to send the letters to the Committee of Safety 
of New Jersey, and on their prisoner giving his word of honor 
to appear when required, he was discharged. 

"In the New Jersey Provincial Congress, Oct. L2th, 1775, 
among other proceedings, ' A letter from the Chairman of the 
Committee of Safety of Penn., enclosing two letters said to have 
been written by the Rev. Mr. J. Odell, of Burlington, to cer- 



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tain persons in Great Britain, and referring the consideration of 
the said letters to this Congress, was laid before ^the Congress, 
and the several letters were read, and ordered a second reading.' 

^^A memorial from Rev. Mr. Odell prays that this Congress 
will be pleased to appoint an hour for his being heard this day, 
was read, and ordered a second reading. 

" Ordered: That Mr. Odell hath leave to return to his house 
at present, upon his parole of honor to attend this Congress on 
Tuesday next, at 3 o'clock, P. M. 

"Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1775. 
3 P. M. Pursuant to the order of the day, the Congress 
resumed the letter of the Committee of Safety of Penn., the 
letters said to be written by the Rev. Mr. Odell and Mr. Odell's 
memorial; and Mr. Odell attending was called in and heard, 
and then ordered to withdraw. Whereupon, after deliberating 
thereon, the previous question being put, that the determiiiation 
of Mr. Odell's case be postponed till to-morrow morning ; re- 
solved accordingly. 

" Wednesday, Oct. 18. The Congress resumed the considera- 
tion of Mr. Odell's case; and having deliberated thereon, are of 
opinion that it appears, from the general purpose of Mr. Odell's 
letter that he disapproves of, and is in principle opposed to. the 
measures of defence adopted by the Continent, to prevent the 
oppressive designs of the British ministry ; but, as this Congress 
w^ould by no means violate the right of private sentiment, and 
as Mr. Odell's letter does not clearly appear to have been in- 
tended to influence public measures, and as some degree of . 
ambiguity is contained in several parts thereof, this Congress 
do therefore decline passing any public censure against him." 
— American Archives, Series Fourth, Vol. Ill, pp. 1224, 1227. 

THE EARNEST W^ISHES OF DE. ODELL. 

In the report of the S. P. G. from Feb. 1775 to Feb. 1776, 
we find the following : " The Rev. Mr. Odell in his letters 
expressed his most earnest wishes that in the present alarming 
troubles, the prudence and integrity of the missionaries may 
contribute towards a recovery of harmony and peace, or at least 



310 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



secure tbeni from the violence of the times ; but the Society 
have reason to believe that Mr. Odell has met with a disappoint- 
ment of his wishes in his own person." 

soxo FOE A fishixct paety xeae buelixgtox, ox the 

DELAWAEEj IX 1776. 

[To the 8d verse Dr. Odellf has appended this note: Protestant was a 
term adopted by a circle of Loyalists."] 

How sweet is the season, the sky how serene ; 
On Delaware's banks how delightful the scene ; 
The Prince of the rivers, his waves all asleep, 
In silence majestic glides on to the Deep. 

Away from the noise of the life and the drnm. 
And all the rude din of Kellona we come ; 
And a plentiful store of good humour we bring 
To season our feast in the shade of Cold Spring. 

A truce then to all whig and tory debate : 
True lovers of Freedom, contention we hate : 
For the Demon of discord in vain tries his art 
To inflame or possess a true Protestant heart. 

True Protestant friends to fair Liberty's cause, 
To decorum, good order, religion and laws, 
From avarice, jealousy, perfidy, free; 
We wish all the world were as happy as we. 

We have wants, we confess, but are free from the care 
Of those that abound, yet have nothing to sj)are; 
Serene as the sky, as the river serene, 
We are happy to want envy, malice and spleen. 

"While thousands around us, misled by a few, 
The Phantom of pride and ambition pursue, 
With pity their fatal delusion we see ; 
And wish all the world were as happy as we I 

ODE FOE THE KIXG's BIETH-DAY. 

[Written by Dr. OJell on occasion of the. King\s birth day^ 
June 4th, 177(3, and sung by a number of British officers, (cap- 
tured at St. John's and Chambly by Gen. Montgomery) who 
were prisoners at that time at Burlington ; and who, to avoid 
offence, had an entertainment in honor of the day prepared on 

T •• Dr. Odell and Mr. Stansbury were the two most important loyal versi- 
fiers of their time." " As a political satirist," says Winthrop Sargent, in his 
collections of ''The Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution,'^ p. 202, '"'Dr. Odell is 
entitled to rank high. In fertility of conception, and vigor and ease of expres- 
sion, many passages in his poems will compare favorably with those of 
Churchill and Canning." 



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an island in the Delaware, where they dined under a tree. They 
had their band of music on the island, and ^Hhat," says Craft, 
^^had liked to have made a Rumpus.'^ Was ^^Hail Columbia/^ 
-suggested by these lines?] 

O'er Britannia's happy Land, 

Euled by George's mild command, 

On this bright auspicious day 

Loyal hearts their tribute pay. 

Ever sacred be to mirth, 

The day that gave our Monarch birth ! 

There, the thundering Cannon's roar 
Echoes round from shore to shore ; 
Eoyal Banners wave on high ; 
Drums and trumpets rend the sky. 

There our Comrades, clad in Arms, 
Long enured to War's alarms, 
Marshall'd all in bright array, 
Welcome this returning day. 

There the temples chime their bells ; 

And the pealing anthem swells ; 

And the gay and grateful throng ^ 

Join the loud triumphant song ! 

Nor to Britain's Isle confin'd — 
Many a distant region joined 
Under George's happy sway, 
Joys to hail this welcome day. 

O'er this Land among the rest, 
Till of late supremely blest, 
George, to sons of Britain dear, 
Swelled the song from year to year. 

Here we now lament to find, 
Sons of Britain, tierce and blind, 
Drawn from loyal love astray, 
TIail no more this welcome day. 

AVhen by foreign Foes dismay'd, 
Thankless Sons, ye call'd for aid ; 
Then, ive gladly fought and bled, 
And your Foes in triumph led. 

jS'ow, by Fortune's blind command. 
Captives in your hostile Land ; 
To this lonely spot we stray. 
Here unseen to hail this day. 

Though by Fortune thus betray'd. 
For awhile we seek the shade, 
Still our loyal hearts are free, 
Still devoted, George, to thee. 

Britain, Empress of the Main, 
Fortune envies thee in vain ; 
Safe, while Ocean round thee flows. 
Though the world were all thy Foes. 



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Long as Sun and Moon endure, 

Britain's Throne shall stand secure, 

And Great George's royal line, 

There in splendid honor shine. 

Ever sacred be to mirth, 

The day that gave our Monarch birth ! 

DECLARATION Or INDEPEXDENCE. 

" The congress/' says WIiite''s Universal History, " now re- 
solved on the decisive step of a declaration of independence^ 
which was issued on the 4th of July, 1776; and they at the same 
time established a federative union among the belligerent colo- 
nies, assuming the title of ^ The United States of America/ 
But the slender forces of the new republic were for some time 
hardly able anywhere to face the numerous and well-appointed 
armies of Britain. They lost New York and New Jersey, cmd 
congress was compelled to take refuge in Maryland/' 

DR. ODELL PAROLED. 

July 20, 1776. Ordered, That Peter Tallman, Esq., Chair- 
man of the County Committee of Burlington, be directed to take 
the parole of the Rev. Jonathan Odell, a person suspected of 
being inimical to American liberty ; that he confine himself on 
the East side of Delaware river, within a circle of eight miles 
from the Court House in the city of Burlington.'' 

"Thursday, August 1, 1776. A letter from the Rev. Mr. 
Odell, praying, for certain reasons, that he may be excused from 
signing the parole heretofore ordered, and offering a new parole 
binding himself not to hold any political correspondence with 
the enemy, or to furnish them with provisions or intelligence, 
read. Whereupon the Convention having taken the same into 
consideration. Ordered, that Mr. Odell sign the original parole 
sent to the Committee of Burlington." — Force's American Ar- 
chives, 4:th Series, Vol. VI, pjy. 1651, 1656. 

GOV. FRANKLIN CONFINED AS A PRISONER OF WAR. 

"All the hopes, no doubt for several years fondly indulged 
in by Governor Franklin, of the final success of the royal cause, 
were doomed to disappointment. He was arrested by order of 
the Provincial Congress in 1776, and confined as a prisoner of 



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war. He was not exchanged until he had suffered an impris- 
onment of two years and five months. In the m^ean time his 
library was burned by an accidental fire ; and his wife, who is 
represented as an elegant woman, amiable and intelligent, died 
in New York. He took up his residence in that city, remain- 
ing there several years, aiding the royal arms, as President of 
the Board of Associated Royalists, and by all other means in his 
power. In 1782, he returned to England, after a sojourn in 
America of twenty years. 

" In consideration of the losses he had sustained by the con- 
fiscation of his property and otherwise, the British government 
granted to him eighteen hundred pounds, nearly nine thousand 
dollars, and allowed him a pension of nearly four thousand dol- 
lars a year, thus placing him, in a pecuniary point of view, in 
a better situation than if he had remained Governor of New 
Jersey. He afterwards married again, an Irish lady, and died 
in 1813, at the age of about eighty -three. 

" The author of a work published in 1802, says : ' Governor 
Franklin, in point of person, is above the common size, with 
the eye and figure of a veteran. Although subject to the gout, 
he appears to be strong and athletic, and was accounted one of 
the handsomest men in America. He is now about sixty-five 
years of age, and resembles his father in a variety of particulars.. 
Like him he is cheerful, facetious, admirably calculated for tell- 
ing a pleasing story, and no enemy to social converse, hilarity,, 
and the pleasures of the table, when indulged in moderation. 
Like him, too, he makes his ablutions every morning, and is 
equally partial to an air and a water bath.' " — Ehner^s Biograph- 
ical Sketches. 

THE EXHIBIT OF PAROCHIAL WORK BY DR. ODELL. 

From the day when Dr. Odell became the rector of St. Mary'^s- 
Church, to Dec. 21st, 1776,— a period of nine years and five 
months — the Parish Register has twenty-six closely written 
folio pages, of most neatly, and accurately, kept records ; the 
totals of which are. Baptisms 249, Marriages 122, Burials 131, 
= — a very large exhibit. 



314 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



DR. ODELL WILL XOT SACRIFICE ANY PRINCIPLES, AND 
BECOMES A REFUGEE. 

Dr. Odell to the Secretary, Extract. 

"I^'ew York Jany 7, 1777. 

^' My Dear Sir : 

^' You may possibly have heard that I attempted to send a 
Letter to you above a twelve month since, and that my Letter 
being intercepted embarassed me not a little with Committees 
and Conventions, who were willing to find offence where none 
Avas intended. I told them and have had several occasions of 
telling them since, a very honest truth, that I did not mean to 
dissemble my sentiments concerning the measures of Congress, 
but that I had made it a Rule to myself from the beginning of 
our troubles, not to interfere directly or indirectly in Public 
Affairs, and tho' I neither could nor would make any sacrifice 
of my principles or duty, either as a Loyal Subject or a Minis- 
ter of the Church of England, f yet my political conduct should 
be inoffensive, if they would allow^ a passive conduct to be so, 
and in short that I presumed it reasonable in me .to expect I 
should be indulged in the unmolested enjoyment of my private 
sentiments so long as I did not attempt to influence the senti- 
ments or conduct of other men, and that private sentiments ought 
not to be made matter of public notice, much less of public cen- 
sure. I concluded such a tenor of conduct in our situation was not 
only necessary but at the same time becoming the characters of 
Clergymen and especially of Missionaries and therefore would be 
approved of by the Society. But this specific system did not screen 
me in particular from much jealousy and misrepresentation. 

f When a Deacon is ordered in the Churoh of England, ''before the Gospel, 
the Bishop, sitting in his chair, causes the Oath of the King's Supremacy, and 
against the power and autliority of all foreign Potentates, to be ministered unto 

him as follows : ' I, do swear, that I do from ray heart abhor, detest, 

and abjure, as impious and heretical, that damnable Doctrine and Position, 
That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any Authority of 
tlie See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by tlieir Subjects, or any other 
whatsoever. And I do declare, that no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State, 
or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any Jurisdiction, Power. Superiority, Pre- 
eminence, or Authority, Ecclesiastical or Spiritual, witliin this Reahu. So iiELr 
AiE God.' " — Ordinal of the Church of England. 



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315 



^' A Parole \Yas demanded of me, limiting me to ^Yithin 8 miles 
of Burlington & binding me to forbear all political correspondence 
on the subject of the public dispute, not to furnish any provis- 
ions nor to give any intelligence to the Kings Troops. After 
giving this Parole I remained unmolested at home till about the 
middle of last Month, when a Body of Hessians under the com- 
mand of Count Donop came to Burlington intending to take 
Post with us for the Winter. Some of my Xeighbours thought 
it advisable to meet the Commandant on his approach to the 
Town and to request him to spare the Inhabitants from Insult and 
their property from pillage, they recpested me to go with them 
& assist in this charitable Address as an Interpreter. I did so and 
had the pleasure to find that I had a pretty good prospect of 
being of real service to my peaceable Neighbours. But five Gon- 
dolas lying in the River began to cannonade the Town in order 
to prevent the Troops taking Quarter with us. Many Houses 
were damaged but nobody hurt. The Hessian Commandant 
however having with him no heavy Cannon thought proper to 
retire that Xight to Bordentown intending to return with Artil- 
lery sufficient to make good his quarters. In the mean time tho' 
I believe every candid man will wonder why we should be pun- 
ished for having been left defenceless and for having solicited 
safety from the Kings Troops in our defenceless condition, even 
supposing us to have assented to those measures which had 
brought the Troops into the country & even to our Doors ; yet 
true it is, that as soon as it was known on board of the Gondolas 
t:iat the Troops had left us, the Town was cruelly insulted and 
from day to day kept in Alarm by those River Tyrants. Mr 
Lawrence, young M"" Hawlings & myself were in particular pur- 
sued by two captains & a number of armed men. We made our 
escapes & were under the necessity of taking refuge among the 
King's Troops, and as the design of taking Post at Burlington 
was soon after given up, I have been obliged to leave my wife 
6: 3 children (the youngest not five weeks old) and to ramble as 
a Refugee God knows when to return. 

" In this situation I take the liberty to request that you will 
communicate the contents of this Letter to the Society ; perhaps 
I ought rather to have written to the Secretary, but my little 



316 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



narrative seemed to require a stile of more minute freedom than 
one can well use, unless to an intimate acquaintance and I iiope 
the Society will admit of this apology. I suppose it can hardly 
be necessary to tell you what I presume you will take for granted 
that I among most of my Brethren thought it my duty to shut 
up my Church and discontinue my attendance on the Public 
Worship from the fatal day of the Declaration of Independency. 

" Public news I need not give you as you will receive better 
intelligence from others. I shall only mention that if the Kings 
Troops on their arrival at Trenton had crossed the River Dela- 
ware (which notwithstanding the want of Boats was most un- 
doubtedly practicable) they would certainly have taken pc>ses- 
sion of Philadelphia without any opposition. You will oblige 
me by informing the Society that I lost almost all the Fence 
round the Point Lot last Winter by the Soldiers quartered in 
the Barracks at Burlington, who made Fuel of the Rails and it 
has cost me £36 to renew the Fence, which after all will prob- 
ably be again destroy'd this Winter. Two years Rent of the 
Glebe Land near Prince Town amounting to £60 I expect to 
lose and indeed there is no prospect of my getting any Rent 
from that quarter nor any Salary from my Parishioners in futurey 
until this unnatural War is happily terminated, and when that 
will be God only knows, though I hope it may be nearer than 
many are apt to imagine. 

" I am &G 

" JoN^^ Odell." 

''THE PEOPLE ALMOST UNANIMOUS IN THEIR AVERSION TO 
IXDEPEXDEXCY." 

JDr. Odell to the Secretary. Extract. 

'^New York Jan 25. 1777 
Reyerexd Sir : . 

''The Society has doubtless of late received from the Clergy 
of this City and some Missionaries who have taken refuge here 
a general account of the State of the Church in this unhappy 
and distracted Country. For my own part this is the first 



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opportunity I have had for a long time of writing to England, 
except a few days ago immediately after my arrival here, when 
I wrore in great haste to Dr. Chandler by the Bristol Man of 
AVar just then on the point of Sailing. 

'•The people of my Mission in these times of public distrac- 
tion have in general discovered a spirit of moderation and have 
been almost unanimous in their aversion to independency ; but 
the progress of that party in the Country who seem long since 
to have been determined on that fatal measure has been con- 
ducted in such a manner as to preclude any effectual opposition. 
In fact the Independency assumed by the Congress long before 
they declared it, made it both difficult and dangerous to attempt 
any irher opposition than a silent testimony of disapprobation. 

In such a situation, having no opportunities of consulting 
with each other, the Clergy have been obliged to conduct them- 
selves with delicacy and caution. About 15 Months ago we 
had a meeting of our Corporation for the Relief of the Widows 

<fc Children of the Clergy when we shall be able again to 

meet is a question that gives us much anxiety — on that occasion 
we wrote a joint Letter to the Society which I hope has been 
received and with candid indulgence approved by the Society, 
who will have discovered that our unavoidable embarrassments 
were encreased by the indiscreet conduct (to say no more) of the 
Philadelphia Clergy. Since the declaration of Independency 
the alternative has been either to make such alterations in the 
Liturgy as both honor and conscience must be alarmed at, or else 
to shut up our Churches, and discontinue our attendance on the 
public Worship. It was impossible for me to hesitate a moment 
in such a case and I find that many of the Clergy in Pennsyl- 
vania and every one in Xew Jersey (Mr. Blackwell only 
excepted) have thought it their indispensible duty in this per- 
plexing situation to suspend our public Ministrations rather than 
make any alteration in the established Liturgy. At the same 
time we were persuaded that in every other respect to pursue a 
conduct inoffensive if possible even in the eye of our Enemies, 
was what the Society both wished and expected from us & what 
we owed to our own characters as Ministers of the Gospel ; 



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happy if in this most trying time our conduct meets with the 
Society's approbation. 

I am Reverend Sir &c 

^^JoN^ Odell." 

THE FRIENDLINESS OF THE VESTRY TOWARDS DR. ODELL. 

Dr. Odell to the Secretary. Extract. 

"Xew York, Aug* 18. 1777. 

Reverend Sir : 

* Since my being driven from home I have been 
occasionally employed as a Deputy Chaplain in the Army which 
has afforded me some relief ; but still my losses are very consid- 
erable and without the aids I have received from England my 
Family must have suffered greatly. If I remember well the 
deduction which has been made from my Salary amounts to 
£15, which added to my Salary for the Six Months from Christ- 
mas to the 25*^ of June last makes £40 Sterling for which Sum 
I have this day drawn Bills on the Treasurer of the Society pay- 
able to the order of Mess""^ Edw & Laight in which I hope 
I shall have the approbation of the Society. 

" My present situation makes it impossible for me to send anj^ 
Parochial ^^Totices. I have been informed that the Vestry of 
Burlington met on Easter Monday last and Voted that my 
Salary of £30 currency should be continued notwithstanding 
my absence. It is very uncertain whether they may be able 
to carry this Vote into effect but it gives a pleasing proof of 
their friendly disposition in these times of Trial to 

" Rev'' Sir &c 

/^JoN^ Odell."' 

CESSATION OF PUBLIC W^ORSHIP. 

In 1779, it is stated ^^that there has been a total cessation of 
public worship in the provinces of New Jersey and Pennsyl- 
vania, and almost every Missionary driven out.'^ After this date 
we lose our venerable guide, the S. P. G., as the Churches lost 
the ^'nursing care and protection " which she had so long and 
generously supplied. 



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319* 



JAMES LAWEENCE BOEjS" AND BAPTIZED. 

The Parish Register has the following := — "1781, Baptized by 
the Eev*^ Frazer, Nov" 14, Jame&, of John and Martha 
Lawrence." 

This child, born in Burlington the same year, was Capt. 
JamesJ Lawrence, who distinguished himself in the American 
Navy, and made immortal the words, "Don't give up the ship.'' 
His remains, buried first at Halifax, were afterwards brought 
to the city of New York, and deposited in Trinity Church yard, 
where a handsome monument was erected to his memory. 

GEN. WASHINGTON, AND BAEON STEUBEN. 

That brief chronicler— James Craft — before quoted, in his 
curious MS. of "Daily Occurrences," still existing with some 
of his descendants, in Burlington, makes these notes : " 1782', 
3 mo. 23 dy. Gen. George Washington in our city." " 1782, 
3 mo. 30 dy. Baron Steuben in our Town." 

DE. ODELL MAKES AN ADDEESS. 

Early in the Spring of 1782, standards were presented to the 
King's American Dragoons with imposing ceremonies, w4ien the 
Rev. Dr. Odell made an address, in the presence of a large 
number of distinguished officers of the British Army and Navy, 
including the Prince William Henry, (afterwards William lY,) 
w^ho was, at that time, in New York, as a midshipman in the 
fleet of Admiral Digby. • • 

ENGLAND EECOGNIZES AMEEICAN INDEPENDENCE. 

"The recognition by England of American Independence was 
first made in the provisional articles of peace signed at Paris, 
November 30th, 1782. The definitive treaty to that effect was 
signed at Paris, Sep. 3d, 1783," — Anderson's Colonial Church,, 
p. 399. 

DE. ODELL GOES TO' ENGLAND. 

Sir Guy Carleton succeeding Sir Henry Clinton as com- 
mander-in-chief of the British forces in 17 B2, arrived, in New- 



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York, in May. On Xovember 5th, 1783, he evacuated the 
city ; after the signing of the treaty of peace. Dr. Odell accom- 
])anied this gentleman to England. 

DR. ODELL REGARDS HIMSELF AS STILL THE RECTOR. 

Bev. Dr. Odell to his Wife. 

"London, 5 of July, 1784. 

^' My Dear K'axcy 

Your last letter of May 2d, gives me an account of conduct 
in the Vestry, ^Yhich I confess surprises me. However I do 
not mean to upbraid them, if they are not of themselves con- 
scious of their ingratitude towards me, it were in vain to 
attempt convincing them, either by argument or expostulations. 
All I shall say is, let them look to their Church which they 
must confess I have a right to tell them is a monument of the 
indefagitable and disinterested Zeal of a Man whose Family 
had every reason to expect all the kind Returns and friendly 
attentions in their power especially at a time like that which 
has torn me so long from them. Give my love to Mr. Law- 
rence and Mr. Ellis, and tell the latter that I entrust you, as my 
lawful attorney, to make a formal demand of him for payment 
into vour hands of all rents and issues arisino; from the Church 
Estate, whether in Burlington or at Stony Brook, from the time 
of my being forcibly driven away by an armed Body. As no 
part of that Estate can belong to or be disposable by any Person 
but the Minister of St. Mary\s Church for the time being, to 
whose use that estate was given, not by the Inhabitants of Bur- 
lington, nor by their Ancestors, but by Strangers chiefly and 
one lot at least of it by aids contributed by my Friends and 
collected by myself, and they certainly know that I am in fact 
the Minister of that Church until I shall either voluntarily 
resign or be legally dispossessed of my right 'svhich is a real and 
Substantial Freehold, not in the smallest degree affected by the 
revolution. And you will further please to inform Mr. Ellis 
that the Vestry may expect, on my Part, that I shall not tamely 
relinquish my Claim to rigid Justice, but avail myself of every 



IN BURLINGTON. 321 

lawful and Practicable means to compel them to do that which 
they ought to Blush not to have done of their own accord.f 

- I hope shortly to write to you more at leisure. At present 
I can only add that I have at last good reason to think my 



DR. ODELL IX PROSPERITY AT LAST. 

AVhen the Province of Nova Scotia was divided, Dr. Odell 
was called to a seat in his Majesty's Council in the Province of 
New Brunswick, and became the Secretary, Registrar, and Clerk 
of the Council, with a salary of a thousand pounds sterling. 

T Alaro-aret Morris;, a Quakeress, wlio purchased Gov. Franklin's house on ' 
the bank \vhen the Governor removed to Perth Amboy ; and who occupied 
it durino-' the stormv davs of the Kevohition, kept a journal from which we 
make the following extracts : " Dec 14th 1776. Several of our friends called 
to see us ; amongst the number was one (Dr. Odell) esteemed by the Avhole ~* 
family, and very intimate in it; but the spirit of the devil still continued to 
rove through the town in the shape of tory-hunters. A message was delivered 
to our intimate friend, informing him a party of armed men Avere on the 

eearch for him his horse was brought, and he retired to a place of safety. 

- From the 13th to the 16th, parties of armed men 

rudelv entered the town, and diligent search was made for tories : --^ 
a loud knocking at mv door 1:)rought me to it— I was a little fluttered, and 
kept locking and unlocking that I might get my ruftled face a little composed 
—at last I opened it, and half a dozen men all armed, demanded the key of 
the empty house. I asked what they wanted there ; they said to search for a 
torv. The name of a tory, so near my oirn door, seriously alarmed me, for a 
poor refugee ^ ' wa- at that very time concealed like a thief in an 

auger lioie— I rung the bell violently, the signal agreed on if they came to 
sea^rch, and Avhen 1 thought he liad crept into the hole, I put on a very simple 
look, and cried ottt, ' Bless me, I hope you are not Hessians.' 
—but I'll go with you into Col. Cox's house. - ''^ So I marched at 
the head of them,' opened the door, and searched every place, but we could 
wot find the tory,— strange where he could be. We returned— they, greatly 
disappointed — !, pleased to think my house was not suspected. 
Thev left us, and searched J. V's [James Veree] and the two next houses, but 
v!0 tory could they find. ^ In the evening 1 went to town with my 

l efagee, and placed him in other lodgings. Dec. 18th. 

' Jar refugee gone off to-day out of the'reach of gondolas and tory hunters. 

Dec. 22d. This afternoon we liear of Our refugee again, and that 

lie has a got a protection, as it is called. The rage of torv-hunting a little 
-ul.^ided. - - 

■■ .Jan. 12th 1777. We have some hopes that our refugee wJU 

lie presented with a pair of lawn sleeves, when dignities become cheap, and 
-nppose he will then think himself too hifj to creej^ into his old auger hole — 

I iut I shall remind him of the p/ace, if I live to see him created first B p of 

]] n." The "auger hole," to which the Quakeress thus playfully alludes, 

Avas, no doubt, the Secret Chamber," under tlie roof of the South East wing 
lit her residence, entered from a room adjoining by opening a linen closet, 
drawing out the shelves, prying up the moveable back, and admitting a per- 
-I rn. I)y stooping, to a dark, but cjuite roomy apartment, wJiich had no window, 
'■'Y aperture for light, and could only be entered, in this mysterious way. 
Before the Gov. Franklin house was demolished in 1873, I went into this 
-ecret chamber, with extraordinary interest. G. m. ii. 



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There, after a long separation from them he was rejoined by his 
tamily.f The duties of these offices he faithfully discharged for 

f In 1810, Dr. Odell addressed the following lines to his wife : 

ox OUR THIRTY-NINTH VrEDDING DAY. 

6 May, 1810. 

Twice nineteen years, dear Nancy, on this day 
Complete their circle, since the smiling May 
Beheld us at the altar kneel and join 
In holy rites and vows, which made thee mine. 

Then, like the reddening East without a cloud. 
Bright Avas my dawn of joy. To Heaven I bowed 
In thankful exultation, Avell assured 
That all my heart could covet was secured. 

But ah, how soon this dawn of Joy so bright 
Was followed by a dark and stormy night. 
The howling tempest in a fatal hour. 
Drove me, an exile, from our nuptial bower, 

To seek for refuge in the tented field, 
Till democratic Tyranny should yield. 
Thus torn asunder, we, from year to year, 
Endured the alternate strife of Hope and Fear; 

Till, from Suspense deliver'd by Defeat, 

I hither came and found a safe retreat. 

Here joined by thee and thy young yo\ithfal train^ 

I was o'erpaid for years of toil and pain ; 

"We had renounced our native hostile shore ; 
And met, I trust, till death to 23art no more ! 
But fast approaching now the verge of life 
"With what emotions do I see a Wife 

And Children smiling with affection dear, 
And think — hoAV sure the parting and how near ! 
The solemn thought I wish not to restrain ; 
Tho' painful, tis a salutary pain. 

Then let this verse in your remembrance live, 
That, when from life released, I still may give 
A token of my love ; may whisper still 
Some fault to shun, some duty to fulfill ; 

May prompt your Sympathy, some pain to share ; 
Or warn you of some pleasures to beware ; 
Eemind you that the Arrow's silent flight, 
Enseen alike at noon, or dead of night. 

Should cause no perturbation or dismay 
But teach you to enjoy the passing day 
With dutiliil tranquillity of mind 
Active and vigilant but still resigned. 

For our Eedeemer livetli and we know, 
How or whenever parted here below. 
His faithful servants in the Eealm above, 
Shall meet again as heirs of His eternal love. 



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upwards of thirty years. f He is called in the annals of that 
Province^ ^^The Honorable and Rev. Jonathan Odell." — Sahhu^ 
American I^oyalists, p. 485. 

THE PAEISH A LOisG TIME WITHOUT A MINISTER. 
SAMUEL EOE INVITED TO BE READER. 

In the Records of St. Mary's Church is the following : — ^^At 
a meeting of the congregation of St. Mary's Church at Burling- 
ton, on Monday, the 18th of October, 1784, Mr. Samuel Roe 
having obtained a license from the clergy and laity lately met 
in Convention at the city of New York, to be a Reader in any 
Church that should give him a call for the purpose ; and 
whereas the Church at Burlington hath been for a long time 
without a minister to officiate therein, it was the unanimous 
voice of the congregation to invite the said Samuel Roe to be 
the Reader of this Church, which was accordingly done." t 

SAMUEL ROE, ORDAINED. 

'^Samuel Roe was ordained Deacon, Sept. 16th, and Priest 
the 18th, 1785, in the City of New Haven, in the State of Con- 
necticut, by the Right Rev'd Dr. Samuel Seabury." — Parish 
Register. 

Two others were ordained with him, one of whom was Samuel 
Spraggs. 

This was the third occasion of ordination by Bishop Seabury, 
after he received the Episcopate from what has been so fittingly 
called, ^Hhe Catholic remainder of the Church of Scotland." § 
And "wheresoever" the "Apostles doctrine and fellowship" is 

t At an advanced age he relinquished his appointments and retired from 
public life. He died at Frederickton, N. B., Nov. 25th, 1818, aged 81 years. 
His widow, Anne, died at Frederickton, in 1825, aged 85 years. 

% "Samuel EocAvas Licensed to officiate as a reader in the EpiscoiDal church, 
by the Eev'd Clergy of New York, October 7th, 1784, and was received by 
ihe Wardens, Vestry and congregation of the Church of St. Mary's, in the 
City of Burlington, Oct. 18th, to be their Eeader."— Par is/i Eecjister. 

§ The Eev. Samuel Seabury, D. D., of Connecticut, was consecrated a 
Bishop, in Aberdeen, Scotland,"^ Nov. 14th, 1784, by Eobert Kilgour, Bishop 
of Aberdeen; Arthur Petrie, Bishop of Moray and Eoss ; and John Skinner, 
Coadjutor Bishop of Aberdeen. He returned 'to America early in 1785. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



carriedj by the American Churchy till the remotest times, this, 
that " the Scottish Church " hath done, shall be spoken of for a 
memorial of her.'' 



SUBSCRIPTIONS TO RETAIN THE SERVICES OF THE EEY. 
SAMUEL ROE. 

''Whereas the Rev'd Samuel Roe Minister of St. Mary's 
Church in Burlington hath received a Call from some Churches 
in the Delaware State with a Salary of three hundred and fifty 
pounds Annum besides perquisits. And whereas the said 
Samuel Roe has Signified that unless his Salary liere is Aug- 
mented to two hundred pounds Exclusive of what he receives 
at Bristol, he shall not be Doing Justice to his Family, if he 
refuses to take up with the said offer. We the Subscribers in 
order to make up the said Sum Do freely and Chearffully Give 
the Sums affixed to our respective Names Over and Above the 
rents of our pews, and Do promise to pay the same unto Daniel 
Ellis— In Quarterly payments, that is to say on the first of May, 
the first of August, the first of November and the first February 
1787 for the purpose aforesaid. And we Do further agree that 
should there be more subscribed than will pay the same the sur- 
plus shall be appropriated to the raising of a Fund for the main- 
taining a minister in the said Cliurch. Witness our hands the 
thirtieth Day of January 1786 : 



Daniel Elli^. £ 6 00 

Josliaa M. Wallace 10 00 

.^.owes Keed G 00 

E. Strettell Jone> 10 

J no. A. DeXorniandie, 

order -5 00 

Geo. Mitchell 3 UO 

Fred Kissel man , 10 00 

.7<i>. Bloomfield 6 00 

.James EsdalJ 1 10 

Aaron Schuvler 1 10 

Samuel Bnl'lns 3 00 

Sterlino- ,v ^'orcro^-^ 4 00 

Dr. Samuel Treat 2 00 

George Gi'iscom 1 10 

John Smick 15 

Nathaniel Coleman 15 



Jno. Lawrence 

John Ijand , 

Wrn. Smith 

John Stockton 

Thomas M. Gardiner 

Geo. Smith 

D. Denny , 

John Baillie 

Ellis Wright 

James Gregson 

Samuel Hendry 

John How.... 

Joseph Scott 

Abraham Scott 

Jos. Stoute 

Kicli'd Stoute 

Sam'l Allen, '^jj} order 

— .Parish Ai 



£6 00 

17 6 

1 00 
10 
15 

10 

1 10 
3 00 

2 00 

3 00 

2 00 

3 00 
3 00 
1 10 
10 

10 

1 10 
chires. 



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THE EEV. SAMUEL SPRAGGS, TEMPORARILY OI^FKTATIXG. 

On the 4th day of Septeniber, 1786, St. Mary's Church being 
vacantjt a committee was appointed to treat with the wardens of 
St. Andrew's Church, Mount Holly, with a view to obtaining 
the services of their minister, the Kev. Mr. Spraggs,! until they 
could supply themselves with a gospel minister." The result 
was an arrangement § that Mr. Spraggs should preach in Bur- 
lington, one-fourth part of the time, which appears to have con- 
tinued for more than a year. 

OFFICIAL COMMUXICATIOXS FR03I EXGLA]S"D. 

"A Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the 
State of New Jersey,'' was held in St. Mary's Church, Burliug- 
ton, on the 27th & 28th of Sep., 1786, " being the third sitting," 
(the two former Conventions having been, at Xew Brunswick, 
July 6th, 1785, and at Perth Amboy, from May 16th to 19th, 
1786.) Among the members, those from Burlington were Ab- 
raham Hewlings, Esc|., and Col. Blathwait Jones. 

^'A letter from the Lords Archbishops of Canterbury and 
York, addressed to the president of the general convention, 
received by the June packet, vvas read also 

J Sometime after July 28th, 1786, "a difficulty having arisen between Mr, 
Eoe and his people, the connection between them was dissolved." 

X At a meeting of the vestry of St. Andrew's Church, Mount Holly, held 
Oct. 29th, 1785, " Mr. Spraggs produced to the Board his admission to the 
Order of Deacon and Priest by the Eight Eev'd Samuel, Bishop of Connecti- 
cut and also a License and Authority to officiate a Minister of the Gospel 
according to the Liturgy of the Church of England except such part thereof 
as shall be repugnant to the Civil Constitution of the American States whicii 
were read in order." " It was moved to the Board by Mr. Spraggs weither 
some persons from this Congregation ought not to be appointed to meet a 
Convention of the Clergy & Laity of the Episcopal Church of this State at 
their next sitting & it was unanimously Agreed that some persons ought to be 
appointed and thereupon, Eesolved that Mr. Spraggs & Mr. John Clark, Mr. 
Wm. Budd & Mr. Read be appointed for that purpose." 

? At a meeting of the vestry of St. Andrew's Church, Mount Holly, Isov. 
18th, 1786, this record only appears ; AYhereas the Wardens and Vestry of 
Burlington Church have made application for a part of Mr. Spraggs time we 
do agree with the Consent of a majority of the Vestry that Mr. ^^praggs has 
our approbation to be there } part of his time and ^\e do also agree, that Mr. 
Spraggs and Mr. John Clark be a Committee to meet ^\i^h the V\^irdens and 
Vestry of Burlington in that City to Confer and agree with them concerning 
said matter on Saturday 25th inst." 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



" A letter aclclressed to the committee of the general conven- 
tion, from the Archbishop of Canterbury, dated July 4, 1786, 
enclosing an act of the British Parliament respecting the con- 
secration of Bishops for foreign countries, together with the said 
act, was read ; 

Ordered, That the said letters and act of parliament lie 
on the table. 

A journal of the general convention, held at Philadelphia, 
from the 20th to the 26th of June, 1786, inclusive, was read, 
and ordered to lie on the table. 

Resolved, That four clerical and four lay-delegates be ap- 
pointed to represent the Church in this state, in the general con- 
vention to be held at Wilmington on the 10th of October next. 

Agreed, That the clergy and laity severally appoint their 
owm delegates, and that each order submit their choice, when 
made, to the approbation or rejection of the other; but that this 
mode of electing delegates be not drawn into precedent. The 
Reverend Messrs. Beach, Ayers, Frazer and Ogden — John 
Chetwood, Henry Waddell, Joshua M. AYallace and John Cox, 
Esquires, were duly elected, and approved delegates, for the pur- 
pose aforesaid." — Journal of said Convention. 

THE YESTRY RECOMMEXD MR, JOHX WADE FOR ORDERS. 

Towards the close of 1787, the vestry agreed to recommend 
Mr. John Wade to the Rt. Rev. Bishop White, t for orders, 
provided the congregation at Mt. Holly join with them in said 
recommendation. 

THE REV. JOHX WADE, MINISTER. 

At the Easter meeting in 1788, the Rev. John Wade appears 
as minister. At the same meeting however, a committee was 

jThe Eev. William White, D. D., of Pennsylvania, and the Eev. Samuel 
Provoost, D. D., of Isew York, were consecrated Bishops in the Chapel of the 
Archiepiscopal Palace, at Lambeth, England, February 4th, 1787, by John 
Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury, William Markham, Archbishop of Y^ork, 
Charles Moss, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and John Hinchliffe, Bishop of 
Peterborough. The two American Bishops soon returned, reaching the 
United States, April 7th, 1787. 



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327 



appointed to confer with the Rt. Rev. Bishop White, and ascer- 
tain Avhether it v/ill be in his power to recommend " a faithful 
servant of Jesus Christ/' as minister of St. Mary's Church, in 
Burlington ; and also to confer with the vestry of St. Andrew's 
Church, Mount Holly, with a view to obtaining the services of 
the Rev. Mr. Spraggs, until a minister can be procured. 

THE EEV. MR. WADE's OXLY RECORD. 

The only record in the Parish Register of Rev. Mr. Wade, is 
this : " John, born September the 1 Day 1778, son of Abraham 
Van Sciver and Mary his Wife, and baptized March the 19 
Day 1788, per John Wade." 

THE REY. LEVI HEATH, RECTOR. 

The Rev. Mr. Heath, f was settled as minister, April 13th, 
1789, having officiated for some months previous. 

He preached the opening sermon at the Eighth Convention in 
the State of New Jersey, held in Trinity Church, Newark, June 
1st, 1791 ; for which he received a vote of thanks. 

The following exists in the Parish archives, in his own hand : 

•'•Teb^ 14^^ 1792. Rec^ of W"^ Updike the sum of Three 
pounds paper money in part for the last Years Rent due last 
Easter. 

" Rec"^ by me Levi Heath Rector 
£ S D of St. Mary's Burlington." 

3: 0: Paper. 

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER. 

James Fenimore Cooper, was born in Burlington, Sep. 15th, 
1789. His father, William Cooper, had founded the village of 
Cooperstown, New York, in 1785, to which place the son 

as taken when a few months old. The family, originally 

_^;i:Levi Heath was ordained Deacon, in the Cathedral Church of Hereford, 
.hngland, June 29th 1783, bv the Bishop of Hereford ; and Priest, bv the same 
x^rehate, Oct. 18th, 1784. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Quakers, became Chorchmen, soon after their removal to the 
State of JN'ew York.t 

ARRANGEMENTS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE PROPOSED 

ACADEMY. 

"Agreed, that the Salary of the Principal be One hundred and 
twenty pounds per Annum, till the number of Students and 
Scholars amounts to Forty five in the whole, and that the 
Trustees be accountable to him until they pay the same. That 
when the number exceeds forty five the Salary shall be One 
hundred and fifty pounds per Annum. The Salary of the Prin- 
cipal, and of the Assistant Teachers shall be paid in four equal 
quarterly payments. That the hours of School shall be from 
the first day of May till the first day of September, from six till 
eight oClock in the morning, from nine till twelve in the fore- 
noon, and from two till five in the afternoon ; in the other 
months from half an hour after eight till twelve in the forenoon, 
and from two till half past four in the afternoon. That the 
Instructors shall be punctual in their attendance. The Princi- 
pal to attend during the Summer Session, two hours in the morn- 
ing, two hours in the forenoon, viz : from ten till twelve oClock, 
and three hours of the afternoon, during the Winter Session the 
whole time appointed for School hours. The Assistant Teachers 
to attend during the year the whole time appointed for School 
hours. That there shall be a vacation of a week at Easter, of 
ten days beginning with Christmas day and ending on the third 
day of January, and a vacation from the fifteenth of September 
till the first of October both days exclusive. That five Trustee^ 



f After completing his studies at College, Mr. Cooper entered the Navy as 
a roidshipman, in 1805. In 1810 he married, left the Navy, and became a 
writer of fiction, rapidly producing " The Spy," " The Pioneers," ^' The Pilot,"" 
etc., which excited great interest, his works being distinguished by purity and 
brilliancy of an unusual degree. 

Mr. Cooper was baptized on Ash-Wednesday, 1851; and confirmed, by his 
brother-in-law, Bishop De Lancey, July 27th, the same year; both in Christ 
Church, Cooperstown. The best biographical notice of Mr. Cooper is con- 
tained in the address of Wm. Cullen Bryant, at a public meeting in Metropol- 
itan Hall, New York, after Mr. Cooper's death, Feb., 1852. 



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shall be a Quorum to do business. That there shall be a Stated 
Meeting of the Trustees once a month, and occasional Meetings 
when necessary. That they or any of them may attend at the 
Academy to hear the recitations at any time they think proper. 
That they shall at their own cost provide suitable buildings for 
the Academy that they shall direct the order and course of In- 
struction. That they shall make rules for the good order and 
government of the Institution. That the Principal, and under 
him the Assistant Teachers shall attend to the discipline of the 
School. That Corporal punishment shall be inflicted as spar- 
ingly as possible ; tokens of disgrace to be substituted instead 
thereof, that the minds of Offenders may be mortified. 

" That Certificates according to merit shall be given to such 
Pupils as pursue and finish with reputation the course of Study 
within the compass of this Institution, signed by the Principal 
and Trustees of the Academy. Other pupils who have gained 
the honors or Premiums of the Institution, and have persevered 
in diligence and good behaviour till they leave it, shall be 
entitled to a Certificate thereof. 

" We the Subscribees in pursuance of the foregoing plan do 
agree to pay into the hands of the Treasurer in one week from 
the Organization of the Institution, the Sums annexed to our 
respective names. Burlington, May 5th 1792. 

Bowes Keed £ 3 00 j I^aac Wetlierill £ 3 00 

John M. DeXormanclie 3 00 i Samuel How 3 00 

Jno. Lawrence 3 00 j Jacob Mvers 3 00 

Joshua M. Wallace 3 .00 Esek L. Hartshorne 3 00 

Joseph Mcllvaine 3 00 David Greenman 3 00 

AVilliam Coxe jun 3 00 Joseph Grier 3 00 

Israel Tonkin 3 00 I Daniel Ellis 6 00 



James Kinsey 3 00 

Fred KisseWn 3 00 

Saml Bullus 3 00 



Amos Hut ch in 3 00 

Jam's Sterling 3 00 

William Mcllvaine 3 00 



Samuel Treat 3 00 j Ellis Wright 3 00 

Joseph Bloomfield , 3 00 i Wm. Coxe (Sunburv) 5 00 

Thos. D. Hewlings 3 00 i ^ —Parish Archives. 

agreement BETWEEJT THE RECTOR AXD VESTRY. 

" Memorandum of an Agreement made this first day of October 
1792 Between the Reverend Levi Heath on the one part and 
the Church wardens & vestry men of St. Mary's Church in the 
City of Burlington on the other part, Witnesseth, 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



''First. The Revd Mr. Heath engages to give up resign the 
said Church together with the parsonage house lots & every 
property whatever belonging to the said Church on Easter 
Monday next ensuing the date hereof. 

Secondly. In consideration of the foregoing agreement the 
said wardens & vestrymen agree to allow tlie said Revd !Mr. 
Heath the sum of Sixty pounds one half payable in three 
months from this date the other half payable on the said Easter 
Monday which is considered by the said Mr. Heath in full of 
every claim on the said Church. 

Thirdly, It is agreed between the parties, that the average 
of Rents & profits of the Farm at Stony brook belonging to the 
said Church shall be received by the said wardens &■ vestrymen. 

Fourthly. It is agreed that the said Mr. Heath shall have 
permission at any time before Easter Monday next to absent 
himself from the service of the said Church for the purpose of 
procuring an establishment in another place. 

Fifthly. It is agreed that the wardens & vestry men shall 
have liberty at any time before the said Easter Monday to use 
the said Church for the purpose of hearing any Candidate who 
may offer as Minister of said Church. 

In AVituess whereof the Parties to this agreement do bind 
themselves respectively in the penal sum of one hundred c\: 
twenty pounds for the faithful performance of the said agreement 
— And have hereunto set their hands & seals on the day <t year 
iirsr abovementioned.t 

THor^rsox Xeale [l. s.] William Smith [l. s.] 

Daxl Ellis [l. s.] Joseph Scott [l. s.] 

■Jxo Lawee2sCe [l. s.] Robert Lucas [l. s.] 

Jxo ivEALE [l. s.] William Coxe jun [l. s.] 

Daxiel Haxcock [l. s.] Joshua M. Wallace [l. s.] 

Sealed and delivered in the presence of 

Rachel Bradfoed Johx Wallace 



f On the 28th of May, 1793, the charter of the Church Avas amended so a.s 
to contain this provision ; " That if at any time nine or more members of the 
said vestry shall agree so to do, they may di-charge said minister, giving 
liim six months notice of their intention, after ^vhicn time liis salary shall 
cease, and the said minister shall peaceably leave the church.'" 



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331 



THE EEY. HEXRY VANDYKE^ EECTOE. 

The Eev. Mr. Vandyke f Avas elected Rector of St. Mary's 
Clinrch, Burlington, July 1st, 1793. He had charge also of 
Moorestown, and partially, of St. AndreAv's, Mount Holly. His 
grand daughter — Mrs. Cornelia Vandyke Clark, still (1876) 
residing at Mount Hplly, and from whom we have gathered 
nearly all the particulars concerning him which follow — writes, 
Mr. Vandyke was a man of deeds rather than words, quiet and 
reserved, almost to austerity in his deportment, and a close 
student. He possessed the power of inspiring the fullest con- 
iidence, even in the humblest of his flock — and intercourse 
always ripened into attachment. He was slightly above the 
medium height, dark complexion, with a deep-set, calm, pene- 
trating black eye. He was a sound, staunch Churchman, 'High 
Church ' in his views." 



SUBSCRTPTIOXS TO BUILD THE BUELIXGTOX ACADEMY. 

^'^Ix Eepubeics by the very principles of which merit talents 
?.jci information are qualifications sufliicient to entitle their pos- 



T Henry Vandyke, the only son of Ehodolphus Vandyke and Elizabetli 
'Judanarde ) Vandyke, was a descendant of Henricus Vandyke, Attorney 
(■-eneral for the Dutch settlement of Xew Amsterdam, who came to this comi- 
:ry about 1640, and ^Yhose name appears on the PuIdHc Eecords as early as 
I'Joo. Henry Vandyke was born in Xassau street, Xew York, in 1740. The 
bricks, and other material, for the house in which he was born, had been im- 
ported, by his father, from Holland, and in 1839 the walls vrere still standing. 
He was a graduate of Columbia College. About that time his father retired 
from business, and removed from Xew Y'ork to Old Mills, now Bridgeport, 
Connecticut. In obedience to his father's wish he studied Law. He settled 
m Stratford, and there married Miss Huldah Lewis, a young lady of culture 
r.nd high respectability. The names of hin_iself and wife appear on the Church 
l:-t of communicants as early as 1767. His profession was always distasteful 
: ') him, and, later in life, he resolved to relinquish it, and devote himself to 
: :e Mintstry. He pursued his course of Theology under the instruction of 
- . Dr. Samuel Johnson. 

Himself and two others (losing all hope of obtaining ordination at home^i 
had taken their passages for England, when Bishop Seabury's unexpected re- 
turn changed their purpose and he made one of the four first ordained clergy- 
men of our American Church, Aug. 3d, 1785. He was advanced to the Priest- 
hood by the same Prelate in Xew Haven, Ct., Sep. 16th, 178o. During the 
rirst years of his ministry he had charge of the Church at Peekskill, New 
York. He established several stations tiirougli the country around, where he 
vras in the habit of reading the service and preaching in Dutch to his congre- 
^'ations._ While rector of St. Peter's, Perth Amboy, and Christ Church, New 
Brunswick, he was chosen President of the 9ih Convention of the Church in 
New Jersey, held in Christ Church, New Brunswick, June 6th, 1792. 



332 



HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



sessor to the most important offices of the State, Seminaries of 
sound and useful learning ought to be promoted. Sensible of 
this a number of persons established an institution under the 
title of the Burlington Academy, with design to lay the founda- 
tion of a liberal education. In the present circumstances of the 
Institution the house for accommodating the Pupils is too small 
and inconvenient and as there is the prospect of an increase in 
the number of Students, the Trustees wish to be enabled to erect 
a building convenient for a schoolhouse. They have engaged 
for this purpose a lot in an agreeable and healthful situation, 
and they intend to build as soon as it is in their power. 

The subscriptions of those who may be pleased to further this 
design will be thankfully received and faithfully applied to the 
abovementioned intention, by Joshua M. Wallace, John Law- 
rence, Bowes Reed, Joseph Bloomfield, Frederick Kisselman, 
William Coxe, jun., and David Greenman, the present Trustees,^ 
and any person subscribing five pounds or more shall be entitled 
to one vote at the general meetings of the Subscribers for every 
five pounds subscribed, but no person shall in any case be enti- 
tled to more than five votes. 

We the subscribers do agree to pay to the order of the Trus- 
tees of the Burlington Academy the sums annexed to our respec- 
tive names on or before the first day of October 1793, to be 
applied to the purpose abovementioned. 

Joseph Bloomfield, five j Elisha Lawrence £5 00 

shares £25 00 Frederick Frelinghnysen 1 00 

William Coxe, jan., five | Joseph Ellis 2 00 

shares '. 25 00 | Richard Howell 5 00 

William Coxe, (of Bucks j Jno. Lawrence 5 00 0- 

County,) order, one : Joseph Mcllvaine 5 00 

share 5 00 ! George Painter 5 00 

Bowes Keed 10 00 ! Micajah Ellis 5 00 

Jam. Sterling 15 00 : Peter Hodgkinson 5 00 

Joshua M. Wallace 10 00 J Esek L. Hartshorne 5 00 

Daniel Ellis 7 10 | Fred. Kisselman..... 5 00 

William Smith 7 10 ' James Kinsev 5 00 

Wm. Griffith 5 00 I Ellis Wright 3 00 

LEASE FOR BUILDING AX ACADEMY IN BUKLIXGTOX. 

" This Indenture made this Tenth day of March in the 
Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety four, 
Between the Minister^ Church Wardens & Vestry of St. Mary's 
Church, in the City of Burlington of the one Part and Joshua 



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333 



M. AVallace, Frederic Kisslemau, William Coxe, Bowes Reed, 
Joseph Bloomfield, John Lawrence, William Mcllvaine, all 
of the said City of Burlington, and associated together by the 
Name of the President & Trustees of the Burlington Academy, 
of the other Part. Witxesseth, that the said Minister, Church 
Wardens & Vestry, for and in Consideration of the Rents, 
Coyenants & Agreements hereinafter mentioned & reseryed on 
the Part (Sz behalf of the said Joshua M. Wallace, Frederic 
Kissleman, William Coxe, Bowes Reed, Joseph Bloomfield, 
John Lawrence & William xMcIlvaine, to be paid, done & per- 
formed, have granted, demised, set to farm letten, & by these 
Presents do grant, demise, set & to farm let unto the said 
Joshua M. Wallace, Frederic Kissleman, William Coxe, Bowes 
Reed, Jose4xh-Bloom field, John Lawrence & William Mcllyaine, 
their Executors, Administrators & Assigns, All that Peice or 
Parcel of Land Situate in the City of Burlington afores'd, 
Beginning on Broad Street at the Corner of the Lot deyised for 
the L^se of Saint Mary's Church aforesaid by Paul Watkins & 
Corner also of the Lot, commonly called Parson Talbot's Lott, 
now the Property of the Church runmng first Eastward, sixty 
feet, on the North Side of said Broad Street, thence second 
Northerly, one hundred feet, thence third Westerly, sixty feet, 
parallel to Broad Street, untill it shall intersect the division 
Line between Parson Talbot's Lott & Watkin's Lott, as afore- 
said, thence fourth by the fence on said Division Line, Southerly 
one hundred feet, to the Place of beginning, To have & to 
KOLD the said Peice & Parcel of ground, nnto the said Joshua 
M. Wallace, Frederic Kissleman, William Coxe, Bowes Reed, 
Joseph Bloomfield, John Lawrence & William McUvaine, their 
Executors, Administrators & Assigns, for & during the full End 
<Sc Term of five hundred Years, from thence next ensuing & fully 
to be compleat & ended, yeilding & paying therefor yearly & 
every year, unto the said Minister, Church Wardens & Westry, 
their Successors or Assigns the yearly Rent or Sum of twenty 
shillings, lawful Money of New Jersey, on the twenty-fifth day 
of March in each ITear, the first Payment to be made on the 
twenty fifth day of March, in the Year of our Lord one thou- 
sand seven hundred <Sz nixiety five, (and it is hereby declared 
and understood between the Parties to these Presents — and so 
it is to be taken and construed — that the said granted and 
demised Premises and every Part and Parcel thereof, are granted 
and demised to the said Joshua M. Wallace, Frederic Kissle- 
man, William Coxe, Bowes Reed, Joseph Bloomfield, John 
Lawrence and William Mcllvaine, their Executors, Adminis- 
trators and Assigns in Trust, and to and for the L^se and pur- 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



pose of boilding thereon, an Academy or House for the Accom- 
dation of Learning, in the City of Burlington.) And the said 
Joshua M. Wallace, Frederic Kissleman, William Coxe, Bowes 
Reed, Joseph Bloomfield, John Lawrence and William Mcll- 
vaine, for themselves, their Heirs^ Executors, and Administra- 
tors do covenant and agree to and with the said Minister, Church 
Wardens and Vestry that they will Avell and truly pay to the 
said Minister, Church Wardens and Yestry, their Successors or 
Assigns, the aforesaid yearly Rent of twenty shillings in sucli 
manner as is before appointed for the Payment thereof, accord- 
ing to the true Intent and Meaning of these Presents. And the 
said Minister, Church Wardens & Yestry, for themselves, their 
Successors and Assigns do covenant and agree to and with the 
said Joshua M. Wallace and the other Persons before mentioned 
as associated together by the Kame of the President and Trustees 
of the Burlington Academy, their Executors, Administrators 
and Assigns, that the said Minister, Church W^ardens and 
Yestry, their Successors or Assigns, upon the Request of the 
said President and Trustees, or so many of them as according to 
the Rules of their Association may form a sufficient Number for 
that purpose shall and will at any time within the term of five 
hundred Years as aforesaid, make and execute to the said Presi- 
dent and Trustees — either in their common associated Capacity 
and those who may succeed them, in that Capacity — or in a cor- 
porate Capacity in case a Charter shall be granted to them or 
others by the Name and Stile as aforesaid, a good & sufficient 
Deed or Assignment in .fee simple for the before demised 
Premises, subject to the Payment of a Rent charge of twenty 
shillings for ever to the s'd Minister, Church Wardens and 
Yestry, their Successors or Assigns, with clause of distress, &c., 
as is usual in such cases, & in case of such Conveyance, deliver 
up the present Deed of Lease for Cancellation. 

In Testimoxy whereof the parties to these presents have 
Interchangeably set their Seals the dtiy and year first above 
written. 

Sealed and delivered \ Joshua M. Wallace, [l. s.] 

in presence of J Henry Yandyke, [l. s.] 

Will. Bard, Rector of St Mary's Cli'h 

Dan'l Ellis, jun. & President of the Corporation, 

Wm. Coxe, jun., [l. s.] 

Bowes Reed, [l. s.] 

Joseph Bloomfield, [l. s.] 
Jno. Law^rexce, [l. s.] 

William McIlyaine, [l. s.] 
Fred. Kisslemax. [l. s.] 



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335 



THE STONY BROOK FARM SOLD. 

Articles of Agreement were made, on the 26th of Marchj 
1794, between Daniel Hancock, George Hancock and Joshua M. 
Wallace, a committee of the vestry of St. Mary's Church, and 
William Updike, of the county of Somerset, whereby they sold 
to him, " that Plantation of 206 acres called the Rocky Hill, or 
Stony Brook farm,'' for " 800 pounds Gold & Silver money." 

This farm rented, from 1790 to 1793, for £30, a year. 

The legal paper for this agreement, was signed and sealed by 
the parties above named, in the presence of Daniel Ellis. 

THE CORPORATE XAME OF THE ACADE:\IY. 

'^Whereas the persons associating for the promotion of Learn- 
ing in the Burlington Academy have this day according to an 
Act of the Legislature entitled ^ An Act to incorporate Societies 
for the promotion of learning,' elected and chosen us the sub- 
scribers the first seven Trustees for the said Association, under 
the said Act of the Legislature. 

"Now WE DO CERTIFY TO ALL ^VHOM IT MAY CONCERX, 

that we dotake upon ourselves the name of ' The Preside^vT 
AXD Trustees of the Burlington Academy ' as, and for 
our corporate name. 

" In testimony w4iereof we have hereunto subscribed our 
hands and affixed our Seals this ninth day of May in the year of our 
Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety five. 
Joshua M. Wallace, [l. s.] Wm. Coxe, jun., [l. s.] 

Jno. Lawrence, [l. s.] William McIlyaine, [l. s.] 
Joseph Bloomfield, [l. s.] Wm. Griffith, [l. s.] 

Joseph McIla^aine." [l. s.] 

a donation fr03i william coxe. 
In the acconnt book of that date is the following : 1795, 
May 23"^ The fund of one hundred and fifty pounds, being a 
donation from William Coxe, the elder, to the Minister of St, 
Mary's Church, for preaching annually, when there is no Re- 
siding minister at Bristol, in a | c with the Treasurer of St«.- 
Mary's Church." 



336 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



DEATH OF THE HON. WILLIAM BRADFORD. 

The following inscription, upon a large altar-tomb, in St. 
Mary's Church yard, tells its own story : 

Here lie the remains 

of 

WILLIAM BRADFORD, 

Attorney General of the United States 
under the Presidency of 

WASHINGTON; 

and previously, 
Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and a Judge 
of the Supreme Court of that State. 

In private life 
he had acquired the esteem of all his fellow citizens : 
In professional attainments, 
he was learned as a lawyer and elocpient as an advocate : 
In the execution of his public offices, 
he was vigilant, dignified and impartial. 
Yet, 

in the bloom of life ; 
in the maturity of every faculty 
that could invigorate or embellish the human mind ;, 
in the prosecution of the most important services 

that a citizen could render to his country ; 
in the perfect enjoyment of the highest honours 
that publick confidence could bestow upon an individual ; 
Blessed 

in all the pleasures which a virtuous reflection 
could furnish from the past, 
and animated 
by all the incitements which an honourable ambition 
could depict in the future, 
He ceased to be mortal. 

A fever produced by a fatal assiduity 

in performing his official trust ' 
at a crisis interesting to the nation, 
suddenly terminated his publick career, 
extinguished the splendour of his private prospects, 
and 

on the 2Srd day of August 1 795, 
in the 40th year of his age, 
consigned him to the grave. 
Lamented, Honoured, & Beloved. 



His widow erected this monument to his memory, 



IN BURLINGTON. 



337 



Mr. Bradford t — ^ native of Philadelphia — married the 
daughter of Elias Boudinot, LL.D., of New Jersey, in 1784. 

His death occurred in Philadelphia, — and his funeral, and 
interment, took place in that city. 

Some years afterwards — his widow coming to reside with her 
father, in Burlington — his remains were removed, at her desire, 
and re-interred, in the Churchyard of St. Mary's. 

THE HEAVY AFFLICTIONS OF MR, VANDYKE. 

" The father of Mr. Vandyke died in 1764, after which time^ 
his mother (a highly educated and most devoted Church woman) 
lived with him, and was his counsellor and strong coadjutor in 
every parish work. Two years after his residence in Burlington 
the strong and tender ties, that bound them to each other, were 
severed by death. This bereavement was soon followed by 
others more distressing. God had bestowed on him four child- 
ren, a son and three daughters. The eldest was a tall, frail girl 
of sixteen summers. The youngest a bright ' wee one,' who 
with a party of like friends (assembled at the Parsonage to cel- 
ebrate her eighth birthday) had wandered to the woods near by, in 
charge of a very promising young man from Jamaica, studying 
for the ministry with Mr. Vandyke. Just as the little ones 
were crossing a bridge J at the woods' edge, they became alarmed 
at the rapid approach of a farmer's team, and ran wildly in every 
direction, and the Svee one' was precipitated through a broken 
plank into the stream. The young student plunging in to save 
the child, was instantly killed. His body was found with his 
head wedged underneath the heavy plank, almost in the very 
spot where he had leaped into the water. 

tXamecl for his great grand father, the printer; who, as his headstone in- 
forms us, " came over to America in 1682, before the city of Philadelphia was 
laid out." His first publication was an almanac, in 1687. In 1692, he was 
tried, for having printed the writings of George Keith ; but acquitted. The 
year following, he removed to New York ; and printed the laws of that colony. 
In 1704, the Wardens of Trinity Church lent him "£30 or £40 for six months, 
on security, without interest, for purchaseing paper to print Comon Prayer 
Books." The Rev. John Sharp, Chaplain of the Queen's Forces, became his 
security ; and, after a long time, there appeared a small quarto, (a copy of 
which may be seen in the Library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,) 
"Printed and sold by William Bradford, in New York, in 1710"— it being 
the first edition of the Book of Common Prayer printed on this Continent. 

X East of Tatham street. 

Y 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



^'The shock was too severe for the feeble frame of the elder 
sister. Six weeks after she too was taken from her earthly home 
to the abodes of bliss in Paradise. Through an inscrutable Prov- 
idence, on the day of her death, the body of the drowned child 
(which had hitherto escaped all search) suddenly came to the 
surface, and was rescued in a state of perfect preservation. Both 
children were interred in the same grave, beside their grand- 
parent, in her family burial ])lace, in the church yard of Perth 
Amboy."— Jf^. of Mrs. C. V. Clark. 

THE REV MR. VANDYKE RESIGNS THE RECTORSHIP. 

''On the 10th of August, 1796, the Rev. Mr. Vandyke re- 
signed the rectorship of St. Mary's, Burlington, having accepted 
a call to St. James', Newtown, Long Island, where he remained 
until his death, which occurred in 1811. He was buried in the 
family vault in Trinity churchyard, New York. Some years 
since a tine portrait of him liung in the library of the old Liv- 
ingston mansion. New York. 

" He was a warm friend and supporter of Bishop Hobart, dur- 
ing the time of the controversy between him and Cave Jones. 
The Bisho]) ever reverted to his memory with the liveliest ex- 
pressions of esteem and love; of his purity of character, and 
untiring devotion to his Master's work ; of the many happy and 
beneficial hours he had spent with him in his study; and partic- 
ularly of the quiet unselfish devotion of himself and family to the 
relief of the sick and dying through that fearful scourge of 
yellow fever in New York ; how himself and son, guided by 
the great and good old Dr. Kearney Rodgers, used, day and 
night, to thread their way through pestilential streets, carrying 
Heavenly and temporal relief to the sick and dying ; never 
flinching from their work, carrying words of cheer and sym- 
pathy even into the most loathsome localities. 

" His wife survived him but two years. It had been her habit 
for many years to rise at four o'clock, and devote the early hours 
to sacred reading and devotion. It w^as at this early hour, still 
kneeling with her head resting on the open Bible, with the 
sweet impress of the soul's joy still illumining her countenance. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



339 



that her faithful daughter found her — asleep in Jesus." She 
was buried beside her husband in Trinity Church yard, New 
York. Of the surviving son and daughter — Richard Vandyke, 
married, had a large family, and lived to good old age. He 
died in 1856. Three children survive him, two sons and a 
daucrhter. Abby Vandyke never married — but with holy filial 
affection consecrated her life to her parents. She died in 1826, 
and was buried in St. John's burial ground, New York." — 318. 
of Mrs. a Y. ClarJc. 

THE PAEISH MAKE PEOPOSALS TO THE EEV. CHAELES H. 
WHAETOX, D. D., OF DELAWAEE. 

The Vestry to the Rev. I)r. Wharton. 

Burlington August 20, 1706. 

Rev'd Sie 

" The Rev'd Mr. Vandyke having within a few days com- 
municated to the Vestry of St. Mary's Church his determination 
of immediately accepting a call from Xewton on Long Island, 
and having in consequence resigned the office of Rector, it has 
become necessary on the part of the Vestry to apply to a Gen- 
tleman of respectable character and talents to supply his place. 
From the recommendation of several of your reverend Brethren 
in Philadelphia, and the opinion expressed by you during your 
visit to our Academy last Spring of the probability of your ac- 
ceptance of a call from this Parish should the Reverend Mr. 
Vandyke continue in his resolution of leavino; Burlington, the 
Vestry have authorized us to recjuest the pleasure of a visit from 
you in the hope that a farther acquaintance will lead to a con- 
nection mutually agreeable. 

The Vestry consider it as the part of Candor to inform you of 
the state of their funds in order that you may be enabled to de- 
cide how far their offer may be an object of your attention in a 
pecuniary point of view. The Church is possessed of a clear 
Income from Rents and Interest Money of something more than 
one hundred Pounds annum. The Pew Rents may be esti- 
mated at fifty or sixty pounds ^ annum — they have a parson- 
age house which rents at present for £26 ^ annum and a fi\rther 



340 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



annuity of £10 : 10 arising from a donation of a Member of the 
Church in consideration of four Sermons to be preached by the 
Rector of St. Mary's at Bristol during the Summer months. As 
the Yestry had made engagements with the Revd Mr. Yandyke 
really beyond the means in their power and have some other 
encumbrances to clear off — they do not conceive they could offer 
more to a Clergyman at present than a Salary of four hundred 
Dollars ^ annum clear of any deduction, the parsonage house 
and the farther Sum of £10 : 10 ^ annum above mentioned. 

Under these circumstances should your determination be 
favorable to a visit to Burlington, we beg leave to suggest the 
idea of fixing the time at as early a period as possible and of 
arranging your visit so as to comprehend two Sundays. Our 
Congregation we are happy to say is blessed with harmony and 
Union and an opportunity of consulting the sentiments of those 
more distant members in the choice of a Clergyman may operate 
to preserve us in u situation so necessary to the prosperity and 
respectability of a religious Society. We will therefore thank 
you for an answer as early as possible and should you be dis- 
posed to pay us a visit you will be pleased to mention the time 
we may expect you that information may be given to our 
Country Members. 

" We are very respectfully 

" & sincerely Rev'^ Sir 

Your friends & oh Servs 
The Rev° Doctor Wiiartox. 

THE WIDOW of a FORMER RECTOR ASKS FOR THE BALANCE 
DUE HER LATE HUSBAXD. 

Mrs. Colin Campbell to Mr. Thomson Neale. 

"Trenton, 30^^ August, 1796. 

'^M^ Thomson Neale: 

Sir, — You can be no stranger I immagine to an Account I 
sent to Your Yestry and Church Wardens of Money Due the 
Estate of my Dear Deceased Husband, the Sum was between 
£30 and 40 pound — the first I rendered in, was by the Hands 
of the Late M"" Aron Schuyler, Sen a twelve month before 



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341 



lie Dyed — he told me, be had laid it before the Yestiy, tbat 
they had no Objection to the Account, and would pay me, but at 
that time their Church was poor, but that they would certainly at- 
tend to it, in future. The Account could not be found among M"" 
A. Schuyler's Papers, therefore I drew up another of the same, 
and gave it to ]Vr Abraham Heuling, Sen"" and 2 or 3 years 
after M"" John Lawrence brought me £15 ; for which I gave 
him my receipt, that sum was paid him after Easter, in the year 
1791, at which time he said, the next Easter they would En- 
deavor to pay me the whole, which they have hitherto neglected. 
I applyed to IVP Vandyke to speak to the Gentlemen of the 
Vestry and Church Wardens : he told me he had, and that the 
last time they met, they promised that in a Mouth after they 
would pay me, and also considered the long delay call'd for some 
compensation. Vandyke has removed. I, therefore. Now 
Apply to you, as an old friend and acquaintance, that you will 
please to exert yourself in my behalf. For I never stood in 
greater need, than at present.f I received a Letter from 
Odell, y® 26 ins* giveing me the Melancholy Account of the 
Death of my Dear Son Colin, which Event happen'cl the 10*^' 
Day of July last, he had been 111 for three months, wdth an 
hectic Complaint. He was far from well, last Summer when he 
Visited us — by the advice of his Physicians, he was prevailed 
on to try the Change of Air up the River S^ John, at a place 
called Maugerville, about ten mile from Frederickton, his Wife 
and Oldest Daughter were with him, M"" and M""^ Odell w^ent 
twice to see him, During his Illness, and Also attended his 
remains to the Grave. Among the many hard dispensations, 
w^hich it has pleased providence to lay upon me, this last stroke, 
I find requires all my fortitude — my Heart feels most sensibly 
for his Dear Widow, who is a very Amiable worthy woman, 
they have had three Daughters and one Son, and only the two 
Oldest Girls are liveing. 

t *' 1796, Sep. 8lh. To cash paid Mary Cambell as pr Eeceipt sent by the 
Hands of Tomson Neal being the ballence of the Keverend Collin Cambell 
account from tlie Church £18.] 5.0." — Treasurer's Account Book. 



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" My Love to ]\P^ Neale, your Daughters, and your Sisters 
Lindsey and M""^ Hulme, I am S'" 

You sincere Friend, 

'^Mary Campbell." 

the rev. charles h. wharton, d. d., rector. 
The Rev. Charles Henry Wharton, f D- D., was unanimously 
elected to the Rectorship of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, 
Sept. oth, 1796. 

f Charles Henry Wharton was born in St. Mary's County, in Maryland, on 
the 25th of May, O. S., 1748. His ancestors were Roman Catholics; and the 
family plantation called Notley Hall, from a Governor of that name, was ])re- 
sented to his grandfather by Lord Baltimore. From him it descended to the 
father, Jesse Wharton ; and at his death, in 1754, became the property of 
Charles Henry, his elder son. When not quite seven years old he was at- 
tacked by a furious dog, which had already torn off part of his scalp, when his 
father, with signal presence of mind and promptitude of action, seizing a 
loaded gun from behind the door, shot the dog, while the child's head was still 
in his jaws. In 1760, he was sent to the English Jesuits' College at St. Omer's ; 
at the close of two years, the College was broken up by the expulsion of the 
Jesuits from France. The teachers and scholars retired to Bruges in Flanders. 
" Sequestered from all society " he writes, " beyond the walls of the College, 
and of course a total stranger to everything inconsistent with the strictest dis- 
cipline, in acquiring classical attainments, and tliose habits of devotion which 
w^ere deemed essential to a Koraan Catholic youth, I applied myself very dili- 
gently to my studies, and became prominent among my associates in a very 
accurate knowledge of the Latin language, which became nearly as familiar as 
English ; as we were obliged to converse in it during our ordinary relaxations 
from our studies." His Letters of Orders bear date in 1772 ; having been 
admitted in June of that year to the Order of Deacons, and in September to 
that of Priests, in the Roman Catholic Church. At the end of the War of the 
American Revolution, he was residing in Worcester, England, as Chaplain to 
the Roman Catholics of that city, deeply interested on the side of his country 
and anxious to return. He employed his pen at this time in a poetical epistle 
to General Washington, with a sketch of his life, which was published in 
England for the benefit of the American prisoners there. His mind was at 
this period much agitated on the subject of his religious creed. He returned 
to this country in 1783, in the first vessel, which sailed after the Peace. In 
May, 1784, he visited Philadelphia for the purpose of publishing his celebrated 
Letter to the Roman Catholics of the city of Worcester. ''This production," 
says Bishop White, "was perused by me with great pleasure in manuscript, 
and the subject of it caused much conversation during his stay in our city. 
The result was ray entire conviction that the soundness of his arguments for 
the change of his religious profession was fully equalled by the sincerity and 
disinterestedness which accompanied the transaction." On the death of his 
father, he was the legitimate heir to the paternal estate. Upon taking Orders, 
he immediately conveyed it to his brother. After the controversy had taken 
place with Archbishop Carroll, occasioned by the Letter to the Roman Catho- 
lics of the city of Worcester, it appeared that the conveyance was not complete. 
A meeting took place in the most amicable manner, the paper was executed, 
and an estate of great value, — the whole patrimony of the conveyor, — given, 
the second time, to a younger brother. 



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DE. WHARTON BRINGS HIS FAMILY TO BURLINGTON. 

In the Parish Register, in the handwriting of Dr. Wharton, 
is the following :— 1798, March 15th. Dr. Charles H. Whar- 
ton arrived at Burlington Avith his family, having been regularly 
elected to the Rectorship of St. Mary's Church, in this City, in 
consec{uence of his acceding to an unanimous and unsolicited 
call from the Vestry of said Church, communicated to him a 
few months before.'' 

GIFT TO THE BURLINGTON ACADEMY. 

William Coxe Senior Esquire having generously presented 
the Academy with the sum of Fifty Pounds in order that the 
Interest of the same might be applied towards the salary of the 
Instructor of the English Language, writing and Arithmetic, 
Messrs. Bloomfield Wm. Mclllvaine and Wallace reported that 
they had loaned the same to the Corporation of the City of Bur- 
lington agreeably to a Bond from the said Corporation dated 
March 6th 1798 which they presented to the Treasurer of the 
Academy in the presence of the Board. 

"Resolved that Messrs. Wallace and Griffith be a Committee 
to wait on Mr. Coxe to thank him for this Donation and to 
assure him that it shall be applied according to his Intention. 
"March 17th 1/98. 

"Extract from the minutes. 

" W.Af, Coxe jun"" Secretary." < 

For the first year after liis return to America, Mr. Wharton resided at the 
paternal mansion ; on leaving which, in July, 1784, the principal residents of 
the vicinage presented him, unasked and unsolicited, with a most honourable 
testimonial of his worth as a gentleman, a scholar, a Christian, and. a Chris- 
tian Minister. It is a document of singular excellence in sentiment, spirit, and 
expression ; and does high honour to them who freely gave, as well as to him 
who worthily received it. 

While Eector of Immanuel Church, Newcastle, Del., he was an influential 
member of the General Convention, held in Philadelphia, in 1785.— Sprague^s 
Annals. 

On the 28th of Sept., in that year, he was on the committee to ''prepare and 
report a draft of an Ecclesiastical Constitution for the Prot. Epis. Church in 
the United States." On the 5th of October he was on the committee " to 
prepare a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving for the Fourth of July;" and, 
also, oil the committee " to publish the Book of Common Prayer with the 
alterations, in order to render the Liturgy consistent with the American Eev- 
olution and the Constitutions of the respective States."— J"ourna/s of General 
Convention for 1785, . 



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Vestrymen. 



ADDITIONAL GROUND FOR THE ACADEMY. 

^^At a Meeting of the Minister Church Wardens & Vestry of 

St. Mary's Church on Monday 9th April 1798, in the forenoon 

of s'd Day at the Church, Present. 

Rev'd Dr. Wharton, Rector. 

Messrs. Thomson Neale 1 ttt i 

T 1 T\r n > v\ arclens. 
Joshua M. H all ace j 

^'Messrs. John Neale 

Daniel Hancock 
William Coxe j un"" 
Micajah Ellis 
John Larzalere 
Robert Lucas 
George Painter 
John Tonkin 

Tlie Committee appointed to agree with the Trustees of the 
Burlington Academy for additional Ground reported that they 
had olfered to let to the Trustees forty two feet in front in Addi- 
tion to the Sixty feet formerly let to them, and extending one 
hundred feet back from the most Northwardly Part of the Acad- 
emy, making about one hundred & fifty seven feet from the 
front for Six pounds ^ year, or the Same front & as far back 
as Paul Watkin's Lot extends for Seven Pounds ten Shillings 
year, but liad not yet received an Answer from the Trustees. 
" Extract for the Trustees of the Burlington Academy. 

Joshua M. Wallace 

" Secjy jwo Tempore.''^ 

AFFECTING RECORDS. 

In the handwriting of Dr. Wharton, in the Parish Register , 
are the following affecting entries : — 

^'1798, June 2d. Mary C. Wharton, the most beloved Wife 
of Dr. W., died at Philadelphia. 

^^Juiie 3d. She was buried near the S. W. corner of St. 
Peter's burial ground in said City. 

June 25th. iBuried my poor negro Man, Frederick, drowned 
the day before in Delaware." 



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An Elegy to the Memory of Mrs. 3Iary Wharton, who died at Philadelphia^ 
on the second day of June, 1798; 

BY HER HUSBAND. 

"O mihi turn quam molliter ossa quiescant, 
Si nostros olim tua fistula dicat amores." Virgil. 

Sing our past loves, when I am gone, she said ; 
Thy tender strains shall cheer ray clay-cold bed. 

c. H. w. 

I 

Dull roll the hours, and heavy hangs the day, 

Oppress'd with wo my broken spirit lies. 
Since my poor heart, to wretchedness a prey, 

Heav'd its last sigh o'er Mary's closing eyes. 

II 

Stretch'd on the rack of thought, my tortured mind 

Eecalls each image of the doleful scene ; 
Nor in the range of nature can it find 

One transient ray that borders on serene. 

Ill 

Creation's glories, once my keenest joys, 

On contemplation's eye unseemly pall, 
Ev'n friendship's balm my loathing l30som cloys, 

For she is gone who once gave zest to all. 

IV 

Flow on, ye tears ; pour forth, my wo-worn breast, 

O'er the cold clay your unavailing grief ; 
For nought but sorrow now can yield me rest, 

In nought but tears my heart can find relief. 

V 

O ye, who fann'd by Hymen's choicest gales 

Once floated gaily down the stream of life, 
"While love's soft breath fill'd all your flowing sails. 

And all was harmony, unmix'd with strife: 

YI 

Say, from your arms did e'er the envious blast 
Dash some fond hope beneath a ruthless sea. 

Or on rude rocks some darling object cast? 
Then, " if ye lost an angel, pity me." 

VII 

For she, alas ! was all to me, and more 

Than bright-ey'd fancy's fairest visions show 

Of female worth, when she surveys the store, 
And culls each antidote to human wo. 

VIII 

8oft was her lieart, and gentle was her mind, 
They taught each wish at virtue's voice to move, 

While bounteous heav'n had in her soul combin'd 
With duty friendship, and with friendship love. 



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IX 

Thonghlless of self alone, her gen'rous breast 
On social duties dwelt with fond delight ; 

Eacli gnawing care found there a place of rest, 
Sooth'd by her voice, or melted at her sight. 

X 

lovely Mary I dearer far to me 

Than India's wealth, or pleasure's brightest charms 
VT^iat can, alas I supply the loss of thee. 

For ever, ever absent from my arms ? 

XI 

How in this world, to me a desert grown 

Without my heart's best portion can I dwell ? 

For me forlorn, forsaken, and alone, 

O toll fall soon the last sad solemn knell. 

XII 

Farewell, bless'd spirit ; and if aught below 
Can still to thee a sense of pain impart, 

() witness not my agonising wo, 

View not the gloom that broods upon my heiirt. 

XIII 

Thus to the winds I breath'd my sad complaint. 

Along great Delaware's majestic shore, 
'Midst bitter sighs, impatient of restraint. 

And rising sorrows still demanding more: 

XIV 

When on my clouded soul a sadden blaze 
Shed its mild radiance of etherial light, 

Such as a pitying angel oft conveys 

To chase the shades of intellectual night : 

XV 

Cease, faithful mourner, cease thy doleful strain ; 

A small still voice or said, or seem'd to say ; 
Dar'st thou the all- wise Disposer to arraign ? 

Or witli rash grief control his sov' reign sway? 

XVI 

Know, then,(" enough on earth for thee to know,'^) 
Thy Mary lives ; escaped from human sight. 

She soars triumphant over pain and wo, 

And calmly waits thee in the realms of light. 

XVII 

Each murmur now sunk gently to repose, 
Eeluctant nature felt the sweet control. 

What erst wa< hope, to bright conviction rose, 

And faith's whole radiance burst upon my soul. 



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HISTOHY OF THE CHURCH 



ELECTIOX OF A BISHOP FOR XEW JERSEY. 

''An adjourned Convention of the Church in the State of 
JNTew Jersey, was held at Ivew Brunswick, August 15'^ and 
16"' 1798, — ''for the express purpose of deliberating on the 
expediency of electing a Bishop" — the Rev. Henry Waddell, 
" President (in rotation)." The other clergy present, were 
the Rev'^^ Uzal Ogden, John Croes, Andrew Fowler, Menzies 
Rayner, Walter C. Gardiner and John Wade ; and lay dep- 
uties from twenty two congregations. The Rev. JNF Croes, 
and Col. Ogden — appointed to receive and count the ballots — 
reported, " That for the election of a Bishop, the votes of 
the Convention were as follows : Clergy — for the Rev. Uzal 
Ogden, unanimously. Laity — for the Rev. Uzal Ogden, 17 
Congregations — for the Rev. Henry Waddell, 3 Congregations 
— for the Rev. John Croes, 1 Congregation. — (The Rev. Messrs. 
Ogden and Waddell did not vote.)" The testimonials of the 
Bishop-elect were presented to the General Convention, which 
sat in Philadelphia, June 14^^ 1799; and after postponement 
till the 18'^, were met with the following : 

^' Whereas doubts have arisen in the minds of some mem- 
bers of the Convention, whether all the Priests who voted in 
the election of the Rev. Uzal Ogden, D. D., to the office of a 
Bishop, in the State of JS"ew Jersey, were so qualified as to con- 
stitute them a majority of the resident and officiating Priests in 
the said State, according to the meaning of the Canon in this 
case made and provided : And whereas in a matter of so great 
importance to the interests of Religion, and the honor of our 
Church, it is not only necessary, that they who concur in recom- 
mending to an office so very sacred, should have a firm convic- 
tion of the fitness of the person they recommend, but that they 
should also be perfectly satisfied with respect to the regularity 
of every step which had been taken in the business, 

^'Resolved, therefore, That in the opinion of the House of Dep- 
uties all proceedings respecting the Consecration of the Rev. Uzal 
Ogden, I). D., ought to be suspended until a future Convention in 
the State of Xew-Jersey shall declare their sense of the subject." 

At a special Convention in New Jersey, "convened" Oct. 16*^ 
1799, "for the express purpose of re-considering and declaring their 
sense of the regularity of the election of the Rev. Uzal Ogden, 
D. D., to the Episcopal office," "after full and free discussion," 



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three resolutions were adopted declaring the election " regular 
in every respect.'' Among those who voted " Nay," on each one 
of these resolutions, we find among the laity, '^St. Mary's Bur- 
lington." An "Address" was then signed, recapitulating the 
matter, to be communicated to the "several Standing Com- 
mittees in the different States, requesting their consent to the 
proposed Consecration." The vote for adopting this "Address," 
stood, ^'Clergy — Yeas. Rev. M"" Fowler, Rev. M"" Rayner — 
jS^ay, Rev. AYaddell. Laity, by Congregations, Yeas, 10 — 
NaySj 3, among which was that of St. Mary's, Burlington ; and. 
the vote of Christ Church, New Brunswick, was divided.. 
Joshua M. Wallace, Esq., was at that time the leading layman,, 
and deputy from Burlington. f — Convention Journals,. 

f At a special Convention in the State of New Jersey, Jield at Perth Ambov,. 
Dec. 19th 1804, — called "for the purpose of taking into consideration, and 
adopting such measures as may bring to a termination certain controversies 
existing between the Kev. Dr. Uzal Ogden, Eector of Trinity Church, in, 
2>rewark, and the A''estry and Congregation of said Church, which appears to. 
be of such a nature as cannot be settled by themselves, and which threaten 
to destroy the peace and prosperity of the said Church " — as soon as the 
Convention was ready to proceed to business, the Kev. Dr. Ogden read " a 
declaration, that he withdrew himself from the Protestant Episcopal Church ; 
but that he would still continue to discharge his duty as Rector of Trinity 
Church, in Newark, and as a minister of the Church of England, conformably 
to the Constitution and Charter of his Church, and his letters of Orders, 
and Licence to preach, under the hand and seal of the Eight Eev. Father 
in God, Eichard, late Lord Bishop of London; a copy of which declaration, 
he handed to the President, and instantly retired." In the afternoon, the 
Convention adopted the following : "It appearing to this Convention, that cer- 
tain controversies are now existing, between the Eev. Dr. Uzal Ogden, Eector 
of Trinity Church, at NeAvark, and the Vestry and the Congregation of said. 
Church, which have proceeded to such lengths as to preclude all hope of a 
favorable termination — it is resolved that this Convention do earnestly recom- 
mend and advise the said Dr. Ogden to relinquish his title to the Eectorship 
of said Church within thirty days from this date, and give notice thereof to. 
the Chairman of the Standing Committee of this State: and we do also earnestly 
recommend and advise the congregation and vestry of said Church, upon such 
his resignation, to allow and secure to Dr. Ogden, the sum of ^250., per annum 
during his life. And if Dr. Ogden refuse to comply with the terms abovemen- 
tioned ; that then, authority is hereby given by this Convention to the Standing, 
Committee, with the aid and consent of a Bishop, to proceed to suspend said 
Dr. Ogden from the exercise of any ministerial duties within this State." The 
deputation from Trinity Church, ISTewark, informed the Convention, that in. 
behalf of their Church, they were willing to accede to the conditions. At the 
Convention held June 5th, 1805, the Standing Committee reported that Dr. 
Ogden had refused to comply Avith the recommendations of this Convention 
and that with the aid and consent of Bisliop Moore of New York, they did 
unanimously resolve to suspend the said Eev. Dr. Ogden from the exercise of' 
any ministerial duties Avithin this State, and he was thereby suspended accord- 
ingly." "On motion the following were agreed to : 'Whereas the Eev. Dr. 
Ogden has been suspended from the exercise of any ministerial duties Avithin, 
the State of New .Jersey, and in. consequence of that suspension Trinity Church. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



THE OCEAN. 

[ Wriiten at Long Branch, 1799.] 
■Roll on, vast ocean, lash the sounding shore, 
Till earth decay, and time shall be no more, 
Whilst each succeeding wave this truth proclaims, 
That He whose mighty voice thy fury tames, 
With equal power lierce nations can control 
And hush to calm each passion of the soul. 
O then, whilst ruin, like the unfettered deep, 
O'er half the globe extends its madd'ning sweep, 
Let Him, Columbia, be thy hope and guide. 
That, anchor'd fast, thou may'st securely ride : 
On His commands, thy laws, thy conduct form. 
Then smile at tempests and defy the storm. c. h. w. 

A NEW PARSONAGE BUILT. 

A new Parsonage was built in 1799, for the Rev. Dr. Whar- 
ton, on the corner of Broad and Talbot streets. It cost "$1217- 
6-9." This house was occupied by Dr. Whartonf during all 
the rest of his long rectorship ;| and afterwards by Bishop 
Doane and his family, until they removed into '^Riverside" on 
the bank of the Delaware. 

M ARE! AGE OF THE REV. DR. WHARTON. 

" 1799, Nov. 28th. Married by the Rev. James Abercrom- 
bie, C. H. Wharton, D. D., to Anne Kinsey." — -.Parish Register 

THE CHURCH MOURNS FOR THE DEATH OF WASHINGTON. 

James Craft's 3d Vol. MS. of " Daih/ OGcurrences^^ has these 
entries : 

_"Dec 14th, 1799. This day our beloved George Washington 
died." 

at Newark is destitute of the stated services of the ministry, Eesolved, that the 
Wardens and Vestry of the said Church, be authorized to invite, occasionally, 
any minister of our communion, to officiate in their Church ; and every min- 
ister of the Church, in this State, is permitted and requested to accept such 
invitation, during the pleasure of this Ccmvention. Resolved further. That 
the Bishop of the Church, in the State of New York, be requested to assist the 
said Church by occasional supplies. — In the meantime, the Rev. Dr. Wharton 
of Burlington and the Eev. Mr. Jones of Amboy, are particularly requested 
to officiate there on Sundays the 16th and 23d of the present month, and as 
often afterwards as either of them conveniently can attend." — Convention 
Journals of Neiv Jersey. 

t" Memoranda — made on Easter Monday April 6th 1801, Mrs. Pitman 
takes the House in Peari Street, tlie' fence & windows to be repaired." — Treas- 
urer's Account Book. 

J ^''Joseph Turner's Bond and Mortgage for purchase of House & Lot on 
Pearl st. June 3, 1806, ?600.00."— 76/c/. ' 



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''20tb. This clay our Bell tolled twice for our beloved WasJi- 
ington deadJ^ 

'^21st. This day our bell tolled once for ou/r beloved Wash- 
ington.''^ 

" 22d. Epis. Parson Wharton preached on the death of orir 
beloved Washington, from Isaiah XIV: 10, 11, [All they shall 
speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become iveak as ive f art 
thou become like unto us f Thy pomp is brought dotvn to tJi e 
grave, and the noise of thy viols: the loorm is spread under thee, 
and the loorms cover thee.'] 

" Ditto from 1st Maccabees IX : 18 to 22. \_Judas also teas kil- 
led, ami the remnant fled. Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas 
their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in 
Modin. Moreover they bewailed him, and all Israel made great 
lamentation for him, and mourned many days, saying, Uoiv is the 
valiant man fcdlen, that delivered Israel! f 

Extracts from an " Oration delivered to the citizens of Burlington t 
on the 22c? of February, 1800, in commemoration of Gen. 
George Washington, ivho died at Mount Vernon, Dec. 14, 1799, 
in the GSth year of his age. By William Griffith, Esq. To u-hich 
is added a Prayer, on the same occasion. By Charles U. Whar- 
ton, D. D., and Rector of St. Ma7'y^s Church in that city. 
Trenton : Printed by G. Craft, MDCCC:' § 

"[Burlington February 22d 1800. 
^' Resolved that Mr. Wallace and Mr. Bloomfield, do wait on 
William Griffith Esquire and on behalf of the Committee of 
arrangement, present their thanks for the Oration delivered by 
him this day in memory of General Washington and request of 
him a copy for publication. 

" By Order of the Committee of Arrangements. 

"William Coxe Jun. Chairman. 

t One who was present at these services — now the oldest communicant in the 
parish says, Nearly all who attended Church that day wore mourning. 

X This took place in St. Mary's Church. "The chancel," says a venerable 
lady who was present, " was covered wuth a staging Avhich was draped with 
black, and all the hangings had been previously covered with mourning." 

^ For transcripts of this oration, and the j)raver which follows it, we are 
indebted to Mr. AVm. John Potts, of Camden, N. J. 



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Burlington Febroaiy 24th 1800. 

Gentlemen 

^^In complying with your request to have a copy of the address- 
delivered by me to the citizens of Burlington on the 22d instant, 
for publication you have a real proof of ray personal respect ; 
as no motive, but that, could hav(; prevailed over my reluctance 
to give publicity to the only imperfect feature in the sublime 
and appropriate performances of the day. The circumstances of 
its preparation, known to yourselves, will I am persuaded, 
excuse me to you from the imputation of culpable inattention in 
executing this part of your arrangement; and with others, brev- 
ity and sincerity will, I hope, procure it some indulgence. 
" With much respect and esteem 
I am, Gentlemen, 

Your Obedient Servant, 

Wm, Griffith. 
^'To the Gentlemen composing the committee of arrangement in- 
the city of Burlington, for the 22d of Feb. 1800. 

The Committee of Arrangement having obligingly pre- 
sented the subscriber with the copyright of the Oration, it is- 
secured according to law. 

G. Craft.]" 

oration. 

The Day, which for so many years has never returned, but 
to suffuse every eye with pleasurable recollection and to gladden 
every heart with delightful anticipation — This day which gave 
to Human Nature, an ornament to America, her greatest bene- 
factor ; and to the World, a bright exemplar of every virtue, by 
a mysterious providence, has become an epoch of painful retro- 
spection, and unavailing sorrow. 

Whilst its annual returns gave tO' a grateful people, another, 
and another opportunity of honoring the living object of their 
affections, the rapture of possession seemed to repress the admo- 
nitions of time or but faintly listened to the voice which told us 
that Washington must die. 

This event, which all knew would happen, was by all post- 
poned ; and each one cherished the fond illusion, that he who- 



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had surpassed all others, in glory, and in usefulness, might add a 
new prerogative to humanity, and exceed the ordinary limits of 
mortal existence. 

" Vain were our wishes and unrealized our hopes I The deep, 
the extensive, the unceasing lamentation, which is heard through- 
out the American empire, proclaims to the world, that Washing- 
ton is no more ! Yes ! that mind which penetrated the destinies 
of his country — that courage which undertook her deliverance — 
that wisdom and fortitude which led her to independence — that 
love which planted the Tree of Liberty here, and watered it 
with the tears of parental solicitude — they no longer animate 
your Washington ! 

To you, who have felt the public shock, and added so many 
tears to the tide of public grief, it were unnecessary to describe 
its extent, and unkind to retouch the sensibility which an event' 
so sudden and so affecting has produced in our country. 

" Invited, through your preference on this day, dedicated by 
national repect to the commemoration of the illustrious dead, 
to exert my efforts — alas how unecjual I in rendering homage to 
his exalted character — it is due to my own convictions, and to 
your expectations, that I renounce the design of personal 
and historical panegyric. I have no expressions which can con- 
vey an Eulogium on Washington ! I stand not here to delineate 
h.h jperson ! You who saw him in the vigour of life, when prostrate 
Freedom first dyed his cheek with flushes of resentment — indig- 
nant at her wrongs ! and the voice of his country summoned him 
to her succour — you can never forget his graceful form, and his 
commanding aspect. We who have seen him bending with years, 
and furrowed with public cares, can never forget the filial rever- 
ence which his presence inspired. And to you who have never 
seen him — and to posterity — a West and a Stewart, have given 
of his figure and countenance, whatever Art could borrow from 
the life. 

^'Nor do I stand here to recount his actions, or to grace with 
the splendors of language, his intrinsic claims to present and to 
future admiration. 

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" The great drama, in which he bore so conspicuous a part, is 
over. To review its august scenery — to rehearse its wonderful 
events — to follow him in all his vicissitudes, were equally super- 
fluous and impossible. 

^' You require no register of his achievements ; for you were 
all witnesses of their performance or partakers in their benefits. 
Actors with him or Spectators ! they are imprinted on everv 
heart, and live in characters indellible as his own unrivalled 
pre-eminence. 

The faithful page of history will hand down to succeeding 
ages, his exploits of war, and arts of peace : — To other pens 
must be committed the delightful office, with glowing rhetoric, 
and in immortal song, to trace the countless services which he 
rendered to his country, and the unceasing honors, and bound- 
less gratitude, by which they were rewarded. 

While orators mount thro' the annals of time, and examine, 
the lists of fame, for subjects of historic resemblance, and models 
of eulogistic contrast — while poets and historians, are emulous 
to transmit to other times the striking incidents of his fortune, 
and the varied and brilliant succession of important actions, 
which distinguished him above other men — 

I would leave comparison, to those who can find parallels; 
and the relation of battles, and triumphs, to those who excel in 
epic eloquence. 

On this occasion you will permit me, my indulgent audience, 
to pursue a less splendid — but may I hope, not an unpleasing 
theme. I would draw you from the contemplation of those past 
events, and personal objects, which so dazzle and captivate our 
senses — and fix your minds upon the inherent qualifications, 
which rendered his life so useful ; his example so impressive ; 
and his i^recepts so invaluable. 

My countrymen ! If you have seen your enemy wasted, 
defeated, and driven from your borders, under his military 
guidance — if order, peace and happiness, have grown out of his 
civil administration — if his experience in war and in govern- 
ment claims your highest consideration, and his truth and love 
give intrinsic weight to his opinions — it is of the utmost impor- 
tance, and an obvious duty, that we imitate the conduct and 



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pursue those maxims, which rendered him ilhistrious, and 
America powerful and happy. 

His life — his virtues, and his principles address themselves to 
our imitation, in every relation, which connects us with each 
other and with our common country." 

PRAYER. 

'' Almighty and everlasting God, the author of life and death, 
who dost not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men, 
we do in all humility submit our wills entirely to thine ; most 
Immbly beseeching thee to accept of our thanks and praise for 
all the graces and favors vouchsafed unto our beloved fellow- 
citizen, now, we trust, in peace. We thank thee for having 
raised up such a man at such a period, to be unto his country a 
Joshua in her battles, and a Moses in her councils. We ac- 
knowledge with grateful hearts the incalcuable national bless- 
ings, w^hich v/e enjoy from thy bounty, to which thou wast 
pleased to make him so eminently instrumental. We adore thy 
Providence in directing him to adopt and enabling him to pur- 
sue, at one time, that wise system of peace, moderation and 
justice, which delivered us from the horrors and calamities of 
war — and at another, that system of vigour and resolution, by 
which we escaped the still more direful disasters of anarchy and 
prostration of principle. To him — to his successor, thy servant, 
and to other virtuous fellow citizens like them, under thee we 
are indebted, that the wild spirit of political fanaticism has not 
desolated our country ; that the convulsions of Europe have not 
])een felt on our borders ; that thy existence, thy worship, and 
thy religion have not been publicly questioned, insulted and 
abolished. For all these mighty and undeserved blessings, we 
desire here publicly and solemnly, to praise and glority thy 
gracious Providence ; most humbly beseeching thee, that all the 
present and future leaders of our armies, and directors of our 
councils, may be inspired with the same constancy and intrepidity 
— the same sagacity and wisdom — the same moderation and 
humanity, which thou was pleased to bestow upon thy servant, 
WasJiington ! May the citizens of America, learn to emulate 
all his public virtues, and ever keep in mind the solemn testi- 
mony, which he bears to the necessity and excellency of thine 
everlasting gospel, in his farewell address to his country, where 
he expressly declares that freedom cannot subsist without moral- 
ity, nor morality without religion. And now, O holy and 
eternal God, Father of all Creatures, and Lord of the Universe! 



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who callest upon all orders and conditions of men, by precepts, 
promises and threatenings — by mercies and by judgments — teach 
us to admire and adore all the wisdom, effects and infinite 
varieties of thy Providence; and make us to regulate our affec- 
tions and conduct, by obedience, by repentance, by all manner 
of holy living, that we may never provoke thee to jealousy, 
much less to wrath and indignation against us. Keep far from 
our land the sword of the destroying Angel ; and let us not be 
consumed by the public expressions of thy wrath — by pestilen- 
tial diseases — by the fury of war — by calamitous, sudden, and 
horrid accidents. Lord open our understandings, that in all 
thy dispensations we may know the meaning of thy voice, when 
thou speakest, either from Heaven or from Earth in signs and 
judgments — And let a godly fear so soften our spirits, and an 
intense love so inflame and sanctify our desires, thaf we may 
comprehend every intimation of thy pleasure at its first and 
remotest representation;- and be thereby induced, by timely 
repentance to go forth to meet thee, and stop the messengers of 
thine anger. Let thy restraining grace, and the observation of 
the issues of thy justice, so allay our unruly passions, that we be 
not severe and forward in condemning others, nor backward in 
passing sentence upon ourselves. Make us obedient to thy 
A'oice speaking in holy scripture — to tremble at the same, when 
sounding in the wonders and great effects of thy providence ; 
but cautious not to enter into thy recesses of the sanctuary, nor 
search the forbidden records of thy councils — to read our duty 
in the pages of revelation, not in the labels of accidental effects 
— that thy judgments may confirm thy word and thy word teach 
us our duty. Teach us to implore thy compassion on us in these 
days of delirious innovation and mad confusion; lest, for our 
sins, we be delivered up to lawless violence and distraction. O 
Lord! prevent the judgements that afflict other nations, and 
hang over ours. Purify us from all such crimes as may excite 
thy heavy displeasure against us; from impurity and drunken- 
ness; from swearing, lying and perjury; from blasphemy, in- 
justice, fraud, disobedience, malice, and uncharitableness. Take 
from among us the spirit of atheism, irreligion and profaneness ; 
and, in mercy convert all such as encourage any of these vices, 
which may provoke thee to give us up to infidelity and destruc- 
tion. And since as thy word informs us, "For the transgression 
of the land, many are the princes thereof,'^ that is, since a con- 
fused government is the punishment of national wickedness, O' 
give us not over unto the will of our adversaries — of such as 
strive to perplex the councils and operations of our government. 
Restore unto us that peace and unanimity, which was formerly 



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357 



the boast and protection of our land ; and grant above all 
things that while we progress in the science of true freedom, and 
in the enjoyment of legal security, we may be still more anxious 
to become and to continue a people fearing and serving thee, and 
daily advancing in the ways of virtue and religion. AU^ whicli 
we humbly ask in the name and mediation of Jesus Christ, our 
Saviour — to whom with the Father, and Holy Spirit, be ascribed 
ail honour and glory, world without end. Amen. 

AUTHORITY TO DEMAND BUEIAL FEES. 

" 1800 April 14. The Minister shall have authority to de- 
mand 12 I 6 for attending the funeral of persons who do not 
belono: to the Church. Persons who have left the Church or 
who are not contributors are considered as not belonging to the 
Church, any right their ancestors had to the contrary notwith- 
standing." — Minutes of the Vestry. 

TRUSTEES OF THE FUND FOR MAINTAINING- A MINISTER. 

^' Whereas the Subscribers together with sundry persons now 
deceased have at various times subscribed and paid into the 
hands of the Wardens of St. Mary's Church in the City of Bur- 
lington and State of New Jersey certain sums of money the 
interest of which was to be applied to the maintenance of an 
orthodox Minister of the Church of England and was declared 
to be at all times hereafter at the sole disposal of the Wardens 
•and Vestry of the said Church for the use aforesaid as will ap- 
pear by the original subscription paper dated the thirteenth day 
of March 1775. And whereas the Interest arising from the 
said fund has not hitherto been applied agreeably to the inten- 
tion of the subscribers from a wish entertained hj them, and 
confirmed by the assent of the persons heretofore exercising the 
duties of the Minister Church Wardens and Yestry of the said 
Church, that the said Fund should from time to time be put out 
at Interest until the aggregate sum should amount to Five hun- 
dred Pounds current Money of New Jersey after which tiuie the 
annual interest should be applied conformably to the Intention 
of the subscribers. And whereas further it appearing by a 
Statement of the said Fund that it amounted to upwards of the 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



sum of Five hundred Pounds, the Minister Church Wardens 
and Yestry of the said Church did bv a Resolution of the said 
Corporation passed on Monday the 15th day of April 1800 
order and direct a meeting of the Subscribers to the said fund to 
be convened at the Church aforesaid on Monday the fifth day of 
May A. D. 1800 for the purpose of appointing Trustees of the 
said Fund with power and authority to put the monies thereto 
belonging out at interest and to apply the Interest thereof an- 
nually hereafter to the maintenance of the Minister of the said 
Church as expressed in the original subscription paper hereunto 
annexed. Now know all men that we the subscribers havii^: 
attended on the day and at the place aforesaid and having pro- 
ceeded to the appointment of Trustees aforesaid did elect consti- 
tute and appoint Joshua Maddox Wallace and William Coxe 
junior the present Church Y^ardens and Treasurer of the said 
Church of St. Mary and their successors in office together with 
one other member of the said Yestry to be elected at their 
annual meeting Trustees of the Fund aforesaid and until such 
election shall be held Daniel Hancock shall be the third Trustee 
with power and authority to invest the amount thereof in good 
and sufficient obligations or securities public or private for the 
use and purposes hereinbefore mentioned^, and to apply the 
annual Interest thereof to the support of the Minister at St. 
IMary's Church aforesaid for the time being, keeping regular 
accounts of their proceedings in the premises subject to the inspec- 
tion of the Yestry of the said Church at all times and to be de- 
livered up together with the obligations aforesaid to their 
Successors in Office within ten days after the expiration of their 
office. 



AMOUNT OF THE FUND 3IAY 5, 1800'. 



Dollars Ct- 



Cash in the hands of the Treasurer of St. Mary's Church 
Charles Ellis's Note p'ble in one year from April 2, 1800.. 

Micajah Ellis's Bond Judgt & Mortgage do 

George Hancock's Bond dated 1 April 1795, £88 5 G 

Thomson Neale's Bond dated 17 April 1795 ...<£ 



£25 00 
. 8 15 




Interest 5 years due Ap. 17, 1800. 



90 00 



equal to £522 4 11 Dolls. 1392 65 



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359 



■• Witness our hands the day abovementioned. 
William Smith, John Tonkin, 

W3I. CoxE, JUN., John Neale, 

Rob"^ Lucas, Daniel Hancock, 

George Painter, Thomson Neale, 

Charles Ellis Executor to Daniel Elh's, 
Joseph Bloomfield/' 



OPINION OF WM. GRIFFITH, ESQ. 

" Mr. Coxe having communicated to me certain propositions, 
which the Revd. Doctor Wharton intends to make to the Yestry 
of St. Mary's — as the terms upon which he can consent to re- 
main in the Church — for my opinion whether the appropriations 
therein required can be made by the Vestry according to the 
Charter ; and having carefully examined the same am very clear 
that the A'estry have full power to go to the extent of those propo- 
sals and much further if they conceived it for the service of the 
Church. If the Vestry or any gentleman of it wishes any 
further satisfaction on this point I will very cheerfully give it. 
It is perfectly clear to me that there exists no obstacle to a com- 
pliance unless it should be the disposition of the Vestry ; and I 
only wonder how any doubt could have arisen — as to their right 
of making any contract of this sort with the minister — calculated 
for the service of the Church and for its most essential interests. 

Wm. Griffith.'^ 

'■'Octr. 6th 1801." 



REV. DR. AVHARTON ELECTED PRESIDENT OF COLUMBIA 

COLLEGE. 

" To the Vestry of St. Mary^s Church 

"Burlington Oct. 7th 1801 

" Gentlemen 

I presume that none of you are ignorant of the appointment 
to which I have been elected at New-York, f Its emoluments 

t " The deserved reputation Avliicli Dr. Wharton's schoLarship had procured 
him, rendered him an object of great desire with several of our literary insti- 
tudons. As early as 1785, he was sought for as Principal of the Protestant 



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are such as would place me in an indepeudent & affluent situa- 
tion for life : The duties are light, & the station very respectable. 
A Church now vacant in the suburbs of that City may also 
probably be obtained, which, I am told, would offer a handsome 
salary without exacting any parochial duties besides that of 
preaching every Sunday morning. It must be evident to you, 
Gentlemen, that, in a pecuniary point of view, nothing in the 
offer of this Church bears any proportion to these advantages. 
On the contrary, all the funds, which I receive fall greatly short 
of my support; so that I have been obliged toincroach consider- 
ably on my Capital, and to expend annually almost the whole 
of my private income. Under these circumstances, the Vestry 
of this Church will not, I trust, deem it either uncandid or un- 
generous, if I endeavour to secure a decent and permanent 
establishment. Indeed I conceive it my duty so to do; & I 
shall accordingly move to New- York, unless the proposals 
which I am going to submit to the Vestry, should be carried 
into effect. In making these proposals I am actuated with a 
sincere attachment to the Members of this Church in general, 
with a deep concern for its prosperity, & with a due & grateful 
sense of the kind exertions which have been made by its'Vestry 
for my accommodation & comfort ; for which exertions I pray 
them to accept my most affectionate thanks, & to believe me 
fully convinced that the present funds of the Church could not 
authorize their extension. What I mean, therefore, to propose 
at present, is — 

"First. That my present establishment consisting of the 

Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, under the patronage of the Bishop and 
Clergy; but declined on account of his health, which had been much enfeebled 
by a nervous fever. In ISOl, he was unanimously elected to the Presidency 
of Columbia College, in the city of IS^ew York, which he accepted, and pre- 
sided at the Commencement ; but in the course of the year, to the great dis- 
appointment of tlie friends of the College, tendered his resignation. In 1803, 
he was powerl'ully urged to become Principal of the College at Beaufort, South 
Carolina, and Hector of the Parish there, but declined the appointment. The 
emoluments of office, in both these latter cases, would greatly have exceeded 
the value of his parochial living. But he loved retirement. He was unwill- 
ing to undertake duties which his health might not enable him to discharge. 
He "was reluctant to dissolve the sacred bond Avliich years of endearment and 
confidence had formed with the friends of his bosom and the people of his 
charge. And more than all, he had learned, with an Apostle, in Avhatever 
state he was, therewith to be content." — Spragueh Annah, p. 337. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



361 



House and Lot where I live with the salary of £175 per annumj 
^hall be permanent ; & that the Yestrv do now make an appro- 
priation of any future revenues & interests, which may accrue 
to the Church over & above the present income as an addition 
to my permanent salary aforesaid to be received by me as the 
same arise & come into the possession of the Church ; provided 
nevertheless, that such addition to my permanent salary shall 
not be wished or expected to exceed four hundred dollars per 
annum, & provided also, that before any such surplus revenue 
shall be applied to my use as aforesaid, there shall be deducted 
from it all such moneys as may be necessary for the repairs of 
the Church, & other usual & incidental expenses. 

" Secondly. That as it is possible I may from age or infir- 
mity become incapable of performing parochial duties, in that 
case I should not expect either my permanent or additional 
salary to continue, but my proposal is, that the House & lot, 
where I now" dwell should be legally secured to me free of rent 
during my natural life. 

" Thirdly. That in case Mrs. Wharton should survive me, 
she shall be allowed to occapy the said house & Lot for one year 
after free of rent. 

''It will be perceived that in proposing these terms I ask no 
present addition to my salary ; and shall only obtain it as the 
funds increase. My expectations rest upon a mere uncertainty; 
but, in my present circumstances, I could wish them to be as 
secure as they can be. As to my becoming disabled by age or 
infirmity from officiating in the Church ; it is a bare possibility. 
In that event however. Prudence on my part, & Justice, I trust, 
on the part of the Vestry must suggest the propriety of securing 
a house to reside in for the short time that I should probably 
survive such inability to discharge the duties of the Ministry. 
In the mean time all the revenues of the Church might be 
applied to the support of my Successor, who would also liave a 
reasonable expectation of the House & lot coming speedily into 
his occupation. Mrs. Wharton's surviving me is also a con- 
tingency. Bat should this happen, I am convinced that I do 
but justly appreciate the delicacy & generosity of the Vestry in 



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believing that they will cheerfully permit her to reside for one 
year in the House^ if she find it convenient to do so. 

'^The propositions which I have made appear to my mind 
just & reasonable. They call for no immediate accession of 
Salary — they provide only for small accommodations in case of 
certain possible contingencies. They are in short, such as in 
my mind bear no proportion to the sacrifices which I make, in 
order to obtain them, that I may continue with a Congregation 
which I love & respect. Security, however, will greatly en- 
hance their value; for however disposed I am to confide in 
those, from whom I have received so many proofs of kindness 
& attachment, yet as continual changes both of Men & Opinions 
are taking place around us, no Prudent Person, or Friend of 
mine would desire, that I should leave these points to future 
casualties. I am about to relinquish for them great & perma- 
nent advantages, & should justly incur the reproaches of my 
own mind, did I not endeavor to make myself secure in the 
unequivalent Compensation, which I propose to accept in their 
place. 

" The Vestry has now my propositions before them. If they 
be of opinion that my Ministiy & usefulness among them have 
been, or may be such as to call for their assent to them, my 
intention is, by God's blessing, to remain where I am, to 
dedicate my services to the promoting of virtue & true religion 
amono^ the members of this Church. 
^'With respect, I remain, 

" Gentlemen, your friend & Humble Serv' 

" Charles H. Whartox.'' 

" October 7th, 1801. This Letter was received by the Yestry 
and read at a Meeting of the Corporation of St. Mary's Church 
held said day. After mature deliberation the Corporation 
agreed to the Proposals made by the Rev. Dr. "Wharton, and 
for themselves & their Successors to pay him agreeably to what 
is therein mentioned, and to comply with all the other Proposi- 
tions therein contained, reserving to themselves any addition 
that may be made to the present Rates of the Pews, Dr. AVhar- 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



36a 



ton ao:reeii]2: that no addition is to be made to his Salarv bv 
increasing the present Rates of pews. 

" Joshua M. Wallace, Sec'y pro tern. 
" to the Corporation of St. Mary^s Church. 

the s. p. g. give their laxd ix burlixgtox to st, 
mary's church. 

On the 13th of April, 1803, the Corporation of St. Mary's- 
Church received from the S. P. G. the famous property men- 
tioned so often in the preceding pages ; the full particulars of 
which are given in the following extracts from the Deed of 
Conveyance : 

Whereas the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in' 
Foreign Parts by virtue of divars good conveyances and assuran- 
ces in the Law do stand seized of an estate in fee simple of and 
in certain Lots of Land, Tenements and hereditaments herein- 
after described situate wdthin the bounds of the City and Towm- 
ship of Burlington in the county of Burlington in the State of 
Xew Jersey in Xorth America axd w^hereas the said Lots of 
Land and premises were originally designed by the said Society, 
for the support and maintenance of the Episcopal Church in the 
said City of Burlington but since the separation of the colonies 
from the Kingdom of Great Britain by the War and the Treaty 
of peace have for the most part laid open and unproductive 
either to the said Society or to the said Episcopal Church axD' 
WHEREAS the Minister Churchwardens and Vestrymen of the 
said Church have earnestly requested of the said Society to grant 
and convey the said premises to and for the use and mainte- 
nance of the said Episcopal Church in the City of Burlington 
and the said Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in For- 
eign Parts are willing and minded to comply w^ith the said 
request xo^v this ixdexture w' itxesseth that the said Society 
in consideration of the request aforesaid and also of five shillings 
to the said Society paid by the said Minister Churchwardens 
and Vestry men the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged 
have. according to their estate and interest in the premises and 



-3(34 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



so far as they lawfully can or may but not further or otherwise 
by these presents do grant Bargain sell enfeoff assure and con- 
lirni to the said Minister Churchwardens and Vestrymen and 
their Successors and Assigns all that certain Tract of Land at 
Burlington upon Delaware Eiver Beginning at the End of the 
Street w^iich bounds the water lots by the head of the Street 
leading by the Creek side from the Eiver to Broad Street and 
runs from the said End of the Street by the Creek Street fifty 
seven perches and a half to Broad Street then by Broad Street 
Iforty five perches to a stake then about North by East sixty 
one perches and one half to the said Street bounding the Water 
Lots then by the said Street thirty four perches and a half to the 
place of beginning containing about fifteen acres be the same 
more or less as also all that Lot called Water Lot Beginning at 
the aforesaid Street leading from High Street ranging parallel 
with the East Wall of the House formerly John Tatham now 
burnt and runs Northward in the same parallel to the Eiver then 
by the said Eiver One hundred feet and so back again South- 
wards to the said Street by which it is measured one hundred 
feet to the place of beginning As also one certain parcel of 
Meadow Land near to a Bridge commonly called and known 
by the name of London Bridge in the Town Bounds Beginning 
at a Stake formerly corner to James Wells his four acres by a 
small Creek that Bounds Burlington and runs by said James 
Wells four acres West six chains to a Gum tree and then South 
three chains to an Oak and South East seven Chains to a Creek 
and thence by the said Creek as it runs Southwardly to a corner 
Stake formerly Samuel Staceys then by the said Samuel Stacey^s 
Meadow Land Northwest Westerly twelve chains formerly to 
Christopher Wetherills meadow Land and thence by the same 
North North East six Chains and thence North to the Small 
Creek and from thence along the said Small Creek to the corner 
Stake where it first began containing about Ten Acres as also a 
Lot of Land within the bounds of the City of Burlington lying 
at the point or East end of the Island by the Creek bounded by 
the Land formerly Surveyed to John Tatham and by his Son 
sold to the said Society on the West End and the said Creek on 
the East running the whole length of the said Tathams Land 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



365 



from River Street to Broad Street being fifty seven perches and 
a half and in Breadth at the Xorth and from the said Tathams 
Land to the said Creek near Eight perches and in the middle two 
perches and at the South and by Broad Street four perches ex- 
tending all the length to the low water mark containing one 
acre and three quarters of an acre Surveyed for the use of the 
said Society and recorded in Basses Book of Surveys folio 119 
remaining in the Secretarie's Office at Burlington Together with 
all and Singular the profits improvements privileges heredita- 
ments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise 
appertaining to hate A^'D to hold the premises with their 
and every of their appurtenances unto the said Minister Church 
wardens and Vestrymen their Successors and assigns to and for 
the Sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of the said Min- 
ister Churchwardens and Vestrymen their Successors and 
assigns forever for the use and maintenance of the Episcopal 
Church in the City of Burlington aforesaid and to & for no 
other use or uses whatsoever axd the said Society for the 
Propagation of the Gospel in Eoreign Parts for themselves and 
their Successors do covenant grant and ao-ree to and with the 
said Minister Churchwardens and Vestrymen their Successors 
and assigns that they shall and may from time to time and at 
all times hereafter have hold occupy possess and enjoy all and 
Singular the said above Bargained or Granted premises and every 
of them with their and every of their Appurtenances and all and 
every the rents Issues profits and Commodities thereof coming 
arising and growing have and take without any matter of Lett 
Suit Trouble Vexation Eviction Disturbance or other Hindrance 
or Molestation whatsoever of the said Society for the Propaga- 
tion of the Gospel or their Successors or of any other person or 
persons whatsoever ix testimony whereof the said Society 
for the Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts have here- 
unto affixed their Corporate Seal at the palace of his Grace 
the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury situate at Lambeth in the 
County Surrey in England the day and year first above writ- 



f " Eeceived 26tli September 1803 and Eecorded in book X of Deeds page 
588 &c in the Clerks office at Burlington." 



366 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Joseph Rigley of Carey Street in the Parish of Saint 
Clement Danes within the Liberty of Westminster in the Connty 
of Middlesex Clerk to Messieurs Oddie and Forster of the same 
Place Solicitors maketh Oath and saith that he this Deponent 
was present as a Witness and did see the Deed of Conveyance 
hereunto annexed duly sealed with the Common Seal of the 
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and 
saith that the same seal w^as set and affixed thereto in the pres- 
ence of this Deponent and that the Xame '^Joseph Rigley'^ set or 
subscribed to the said Deed of Conveyance as Witness to the 
.Sealing thereof is of the proper Hand Writing of this Deponent. 

Joseph Rigley. 

Sworn at the Mansion House "1 
in London this thirteenth Dav of > 
April 1803 before me " J 

Price Jlayor 

To ALL TO AVHOM these Presents shall come I Charles Price 
"Esquire Lord Mayor of the City of London Do pieeeby Cee- 
TIFIE that on the Day of the Date hereof, personally came and 
appeared before me Joseph Rigley the Deponent named in the 
Affidavit hereunto annexed, being a pePvSOX well known and 
worthy of good Credit, and by solemn Oath which the said 
Deponent then took before me upon the Holy Evangelists of 
Almighty God^ did solemnly and sincerely declare testifie and 
depose to be true the several matters and things mentioned and 
contained in the said annexed affidavit. 

Ix Faith axd Testimoxy wdiereof I the said 
Lord Mayor have caused the Seal of the Office of 
Mayoralty of the said City of , London to be here- 
unto put and affixed and the Deed of Conveyance 
[l. s.] mentioned and referred to in and by the said Affi- 
davit to be hereunto also annexed Dated in 
London the thirteenth Day of April in the Year 
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and 
three. 

WlXDALE. 

— Orirj'mal in Parish Archives. 



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367 



"1803, Oct 2^ To cash paid Joshua M. Wallace, Juir' Ex- 
penses attending on and procuring a Conveyance of the Society 
Lots, £18.15.'^ — Account Bool: 

DIOCESAX OFFICES OF DR. WHAETON. 

June 5th, 1805. The annual convention of the Church in 
New Jersey was held in St. Mary's, Burlington. Divine ser- 
vice was read by the Rev. John Croes, of New Brunswick, and 
ti sermon was delivered by the Rev. Jasper Davis Jones, of 
Perth Amboy. The Rev. Andrew Fowler, of Shrewsbury, 
president of the last convention, took the chair. Five clergy- 
men were present, and six churches were represented by lay- 
deputies, those from St. Mary's being Messrs. Joshua M. Wal- 
lace, William Coxe, Daniel Hancock,! and Thomson Neale.j: 
The Rev. Dr. Wharton took the chair, as President, and the 
Rev. Mr. Jones, succeeded as Vice President, in rotation. Mr. 
AVilliam Coxe was appointed Secretary. 

Thursday, June 6th. The following were chosen ^^Repre- 
sentatives to attend the General Convention Rev. Chas. H. 
Wharton, D. D., Rev. Henry Waddell, Rev. John Croes, Rev. 
Jasper Davis Jones, and Messrs. Samuel Ogden, Joshua M, 
Wallace, William Coxe, and Andrew Bell. 

The following were chosen as the standing committee : The 
Rev. Dr. Wharton, President, and ex-officio Chairman, the Rev. 
John Croes, the Rev. Henry James Feltus, the Rev. Jasper 
Davis Jones, and Messrs. Joshua M. Wallace, Samuel Ogden, 
Andrew Bell, and William Coxe. 

'^Agreeably to the direction of a canon of the General Conven- 
tion of 1804," the five clergymen present in Convention, reported 

t •• 1807, Oct, 7tli. Buried Daniel Hancock, a respectable Vestryman of 
.this Cliurcli." — Parish Register. 

flSOS, May 29th. Buried Thomson Xeale, the oldest and a respectable 
Vestryman of this Church." — Ibid. 

His headstone, not far from the vestry-door, of the new St. Mary's Church, 
reads : 

- Sacred to the memory of Thomson Xeale, Esqr., who departed this life on 
.the 27th of May, 1808, aged 65 years. 

" Far from this world of toil and strife, 

He's present with the Lord, 
The labours of his mortal life- 
End in a just reward.' 



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the number of families, communicants, baptisms, marriages, etc.^ 
in their several congregations during the last year.f 

" On motion, it was unanimously resolved. That every church 
in this state which has omitted for three years last past, to 
send any delegate to the Convention of the same, and shall omit 
to do so for two years more, shall be deemed as acting very 
irregularly, and paying no attention to that spirit of union and 
wholesome discipline, without which our Church cannot be 
supported or distinguished from other societies." 

BISHOP WHITE PREACHES IX BURLINGTON. 

"Dec. 5th, 1805. Bishop White preached in St. Mary's 
from St. Matthew III, 1 to 9 verses — [Jn those days came John 
the Bapiist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying,. 
Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he 
that tvas spohen of by the prophet EsaiaSy saying, The voice of one 
crying in the 2uilderness, Prepare ye the loay of the Lord, make his 
paths straight. And the some John had his raiment of cameVs 
hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat ivas 
locusts and loild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all 
Jiidea, and all the region round ctbout Jordan, and ivere bapthsed 
of him in Jordan, confessing their sins. But ivhen he sato many 
of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto 
them, generation of vipers, tcho hath tvarned you to flee from the 
wrath to come.^ Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance.'] 
Sung Ps. 105— 1st 4 verses. Ps. 104— do.''~Om/^'s MS. 
Daily Occurrences,''^ 

SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR AN ORGANIST. 

We whose names, are underwritten being desirous of encour- 
aging & promoting sacred harmony in the Church of Burling- 
ton & of raising for that purpose a moderate compensation for 
a person able and willing to play the Organ in the said Church 
at Morning & Evening Service do promise to pay to the person 
aforesaid or his order annually the following sums : 

July 1st 1806. 

" Lydia Riche $6.00, Wm. Coxe $8.00, Chas. H. Wharton 
$5.00, J. McIIvaine $8.00, Dr. Mcllvaine $4.00, Mrs. Lea 



f This was the beginning of annual parochial reports.. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



369 



$3.00, Edward Shippen §2.00, Elias Boiidinot §6.00, Tarpin * 
Kilby §3.00, Robert Lucas §2.00, Abraham Yansciver §1.00, 
John Scott §L50, Nathan A. Cole §2.00, Miss Reids §2.00, O. 
Hoagland §2.00, Hannah Kinsey $2.00, Charles Ellis §2.00, 
William Griffith §5.00, George Hancock §1.50, Thomas Mills 
^3.00:'— Original 3IS. 

ALTERATIONS AXD ADDITIOXS TO THE CHURCH, AGREED 

UPOX. 

On the 6th of August, 1810, articles of agreement were signed, 
and sealed, for enlarging and otherwise altering, the Church 
fabric. The stipulations were these : 

AVhereas the Vestry of the Episcopal Church of Burlington 
New Jersey intend making certain alterations & additions to 
said Church in the Town of Burlington, and to employ in the 
alterations & additions of said building a quantity of work in 
wood, — And whereas Samuel Gillis, Carpenter is willing and 
doth hereby undertake & contract to perform all the Carpen- 
ter's work necessary in the above mentioned alterations & addi- 
tions, in the best & most workmanlike manner, & agreeably to 
the drawings & designs hereunto annexed, and under the direc- 
tion of Rob' Mills Architect, — 

Now therefore, it is agreed by & between the said parties in 
the following manner, — 

1st. That in consideration of the work hereby stipulated to 
be done, and agreeably to the design of the said Rob' Mills, 
hereunto annexed (which form part of this agreement, and are 
to all intents and purposes of equal force & validity as if herein 
particularly set forth,) The said Yestry of the Episcopal 
Church of Burlington will pay, or cause to be paid unto the 
said Samuel Gillis, the Sum of Four hundred dollars at such 
times & in such proportions as the advanced state of the work 
will justify. 

2d. And on the part of the said Samuel Gillis it is hereby 
agreed with the Yestry of said Church, that in consideration of 
the said sum of four hundred dollars to be duly paid to him in 
the manner before recited, he shall & will perform all the alter- 

2 a 



370 



HISTORY. OF THE CHURCH 



atioiis & additions set forth in the aforesaid drawings & designs 
referred to (except the pulpit and reading desk) in the best and 
most workmanlike manner — 

It is agreed that as much of the old materials are to be used 
in the execution of the new work, as propriety & economy will 
sanction ; & that the taking apart of the old work for this pur- 
pose (after it is pulled down as above mentioned) is included in 
the general agreement — 

]\T Gillis is to give such instructions to the Bricklayer in the 
performance of the Brick work, during the absence of M"" Mills, 
as the drawings before referred to will point out. 

And for the true & faithful performance of all & singular the 
articles & agreement hereinbefore particularly set forth, we here- 
unto bind ourselves ; — & in witness thereof have hereto inter- 
changably set our hands & seals the day and year above written — • 

Joshua M. Wallace, [l. s.] 
Samuel Gillis. [l. s.] 

Sealed & delivered ] 
In the presence of j 

Maey M. Wallace 
Rob Mills. 

contract for a new pulpit. 

On the 29th of January, 1811, articles of agreement were 
signed for erecting a new pulpit in the Church, which were in 
these terms : 

" Whereas the Church of Burlington intend to erect a pulpit 
in said church & to employ in its erection a certain quantity of 
work in wood. And wdiereas the said Samuel Gillis is willing & 
doth hereby undertake & contract to provide & set the same 
in the said building in the best & most workmanlike manner & 
agreeably to the designs and under the direction of Rob* Mills 
architect & according to the drawings & descriptions hereunto 
annexed— 

^' Now therefore it is agreed by and between the said parties 
hereunto in manner & form following — viz — 

On the part of the said Church it is covenanted & agreed 
with the said Saml Gillis that in consideration & in payment' of 



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371 



the work hereby stipulated to be done the said Church will pay 
or cause to be paid the sum of ninety five dollars in the follow- 
ing proportions, viz, 

1st As soon as the outer work enclosing the reading desk is 
up, capped and banded, Fifty dollars. 

2d As soon as the steps of the stairs platforms of Eeading 
desk & pulpit are fixed the further sum of Thirty chllars — 

" 3d And as soon as the pulpit is completed agreeably to draw- 
ings the sum of Fifteen dollars, in all the sum of Xinety five dol- 
lars. 

'•'And on the part of the said Saml Gillis it is hereby cov- 
enanted and agreed with the said Church as follows, to wit, 

'^That in consideration of the said sum to be to him duly paid at 
the periods above recited amounting in all to the sum of ninety 
five dollars, he shall and will at his own proper cost & expense 
provide & set all the work of said pulpit agreeably to the an- 
nexed drawings & designs of the said Rob' Mills (which form 
part of this agreement & are to all intents & purposes of equal 
force & validity as if herein particularly set forth ) in the best & 
most workmanlike manner. 

^'It is understood in this agreement that all the necessary 
materials for the performance of the above mentioned work are 
to be provided by the said Church. And for the true and faith- 
ful performance of the aforesaid articles & agreements particu- 
larly set forth, the subscribers hereunto bind themselves jointly 
& severally their & each of their heirs Executors administrators 
& successors — In witness whereof, they have hereunto inter- 
changeably set their hands & seals the day <Sz year first above 
written — 

'^On Behalf of the Church 

Joshua M. AYallace, [l. s.] 
Church Warden.. 
''Samuel Gillis. [l. s.] 

" Sealed & delivered in 1 
the presence of j 

Witness Tho' Mills 
'' Rachel B. Wallace." 



372 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



DIAGEA.M OF ST. MARY S CHURCH. 

Up to the autumn of 1810 — after its extension westward, 
under the rectorship of the Rev. Dr. Odell, in 1769 — the interior 
of the Church (so far as we can ascertain, without any drawings) 
is tolerably represented by this diagram : 



o , 



n 






i : 






h 


b 


9 



(7 



«. Holy Table. 

h. Chancel. 

f. Prayer Desk. 

Pulpit, with souncUug-board. 
f. Steps to Pulpit. 
f.\ Font, with pyramidal cover. 
fj. Governor's Pew, with canopy 
and curtains. 



/(. Large Square Pew. 
i. South Door, 
Xorth^Door. 
k. Staircase to Gallery. 
/. Gallery, across the ^Y. end. 
on. Clerk's Desk, in the Gallery. 
n. Large East "Window. 
0. "Windows, 
jj. Organ. 



IX BURLINGTON. 



373 



DEATH OF THE PKIXCIPAL OF THE ACADEMY. 

^•1811, March 22d. Buried John Michael Haiickel, Prin- 
cipal of the Burlington Academy. Eximkie pietatis Ju^-cnis.^^ 
— Parish Register. 

The headstone, at his grave, in St. Mary's Church yard, has, 
at its top, a large medallion, on which is represented a youth 
with wings, seated on the clouds, cheerfully looking upon a 
vision of the cross with rays of glory radiating from it — while 
upon a scroll, gracefully supported by the clouds on which he 
sits, are the words, "Blissful reality of my hopes." 

Beneath this medallion is this inscription : 
In memory of 

JOHX MICHAEL HAXCKEL 

late Principal of 
the Academy in this City 
who died March 21^* 1811, 
in the 24^'' year of his age. 

His talents were of the first order 
his acquirements great and his labours 
as an instructor of youth were 
indefatigable and eminently crowned 
with success. As a Man his conduct was 
blameless : as a Christian it was exemplary. 

" Blissful patli witli safety trod 
As it leads the Soul to God." 



WOESHIP, IX THE CHURCH BUILDING, RESUMED. 

"1811, April 28th. After worshipping at the Academy for 
nearly 8 months, on this day we resumed our Worship in the 
Church in its improved state."t — Parish Register, 

SIZE AND APPEARANCE OF THE CHURCH. 

" The Church, after this addition, having been increased in 
size three times, was in the form of a rectangular parallelogram, 



J "Jan. 12tli 1813. To cash paid D. Allinson for printing Hvmns, at 
opening the Church after the Alteration, S1.50." — Ireasurer's Account Book. 



374 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



extending East and AYest sixty-three feet three inches, and 
Xorth and South thirty-three feet four inches ; having at the 
East e^d a chevet, or serai-circular termination, in which was 
placed the chancel. At the West end was the choir, over which 
(supported by large square pillars, rising through the roof,) was 
lixed the belfry." — Extract from " The Missionary ^ 

BROTHERLY LOYE COXTIXUES, IX THE CHURCH IX XEW 

JERSEY. 

Rev. Dr. IVharton to the Rev. Dr. Croes. f 

^^Dec^ 23 1811 

ReYEREXD & DEAR SiR : 

" Since the receipt of yours of the 4^^' Inst, I have been continu- 
ally contemplating a ride to with a view of ascertain- 
ing more certainly the situation of jNP but for nearly two 

months the eruption on my legs, wh afflicts me every fall, has 
confined me at home, & indeed almost to the house, except on 
Sundays. It is not, thank God, as bad as it was last year, & I 
think the worst is now over. If upon inquiry I should find 
things as they have been represented to me, I will cheerfully 
contribute the sum which you mention, & will give you notice 
accordingly. It is a subject of much regret, that the services 
of this Gentleman are not more acceptable to his congregation. 
He appears to be a pious & zealous Man ; but, in the present 
state of society he exhibits an additional proof that piety, & zeal 
are not the only qualifications for the Ministry; & I hope our 
Church will be daily more convinced of this, & will act up to 
the conviction. In my letter to you, I did not mean to suggest 

that M"" should be employed as a permanent missionary ; 

but that he should merely be furnished with an opportunity 
gratis of visiting the vacant Churches in Sussex, & of looking 
about for something that might better his situation. However, 
as he wishes to be instituted where he now is, I suppose he 
entertains no idea of removing. I suppose you have received a 



t The originals, of this and the following letters, were kindly furnished by 
the Eev. Kobert B. Croes, D. D., a son of the Rev. Dr. (afterwards Bishop) 
Croes. 



IN BURLINGTOX. 



375 



€opy of ]VP 's Convention Sermon ; as he proposed sending 

one to each of our Clergy. It was printed here, & a great body 
of notes was prepared to accompany it; but most of these I have 
prevailed upon him to suppress. We are told, I hope errone- 
ously, that animosities & divisions at New York continue with 
unabated violence. Is there no authority in the Great Body of 
the Church to settle them ; or must they terminate in the ruin 
of that hitherto flourishing portion of our Zion ? We hear that 
Ireland has entered, & Jones re-entered the lists, & that they re- 
ceive countenance from Bp. Provoost. Is this the fact, & what are 
its grounds ? I have longed to converse with good Bp. White 
on the subject, but have not been well enough to go down. 
With every true son of the Church I contemplate this calamity 
with bitter regret. It affixes a stain, which a long course of 
evangelical harmony will scarcely wipe away. Instead of ex- 
claiming 'How do these professing desciples of Xt love one 
another,' will not they who are without, adopt a very opposite 
expression ? Poor D"" Hobart's mitre has proved a crown of 
thorns; but, I trust, like his divine Master, he will be enabled 
to wear it with fortitude & patience. While unanimity & 
brotherly love continue to flourish in our little Church-circle, 
■& claim our thanks to the Author of peace, let us earnestly sup- 
plicate him to extend the same blessings to our Brethren beyond 
the Hudson. 

" ]VP^ W. desires to be kindly remembered to you, & with great 
regard, I remain, Rev"^ & dear S"" your 

" Sincere friend &■ B"" 

Chaeles H. Whartox. 

"P. S. Be pleased to inform jVP' Parker (with my Compts) 
that French's old Betty was buried yesterday in our Church- 
yard. 

The Rev° Johx Croes, D. D., 
" New Brunswick, 

New Jersey." 
Postmarked " Burl Dec 24" 



376 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



A VIGOROUS LETTER OX SEVERAL TOPICS. 

Rev. Dr. Wharton to Rev. Dr. Croes. 

'^Jan^ 29^^ 1812. 

"Reverend & Dear Sir 

"Your letter of the 25*^ Inst. inclosiDg your very liberal dona- 
tion to poor is received. I Lave inclosed the note to 

, & wait only for an opportunity of sending it. 

On Friday last I went to Mount Holly in consequence of an 
invitation to dine with Major Cox on the occasion of his daugh- 
ter's wedding. I there met, as I expected, with the two M"" 
"Wilmers, M^ Turner, M"" Higbee & several of the Congregation. 

M"" has ordered Allison to transmit a 

copy of his sermon to each of our Clergy. 1 prevailed upon him 
to alter a few obnoxious expressions, & to omit a great body 
of annotations ; but could not persuade him to suppress them 
all. Indeed, I advised him as delicately as I could, not to 
print the Sermon at all, but he conceived that it had been mis- 
represented, & that its usefulness Avould exceed the disapproba- 
tion it might meet with. I suggested that this with me, was a 
matter of doubt ; & the event must show which of us is right. 
I corrected some of the first proof-sheets, but the Printer relied 
on his own accuracy as to others ; inserted sentences which I 
had marked for omission, & has, of course, sent it to the public 
in rather an imperfect state. I have just finished reading Bp. 
Hobart's statement. It is powerfully written, & with me is con- 
clusive. How Bp. Brovoost, & the other advocates of M/^ 
Jones can answer to God, or the Church for their conduct, I 
cannot conceive. If Jones be not a convicted schismatic, there 
never was a person of that description, & we had better expunge 
one of the petitions of the Litany. Some think that the peace 
of the Church of X . York is of such consequence as to authorize 
the call for a General Convention. What is your opinion ? 
Could such a measure be effectual in restoring harmony, & ob- 
viating any further dissentions of this nature, I should be 
clearly for embracing it. We want some decisive regulations 
for coercing the disturbers of the Church's peace, & punishing 



IN BURLINGTON. 



377 



rebels to her constitutional authority. What is any Personal 
immorality, against which our Canons are lev^elled, compared to 
the crime of defeating the purposes of all religious associations- 
by introducing confusion into the government, & deadly dissen- 
tions among the Members of the Church ? The cry of Tyranny 
& persecution is too stale a pretext to have any weight under the 
liberal polity of our Ecclesiastical institutions. It is too late in 
the day to renew in this Country appeals to the public feelings, 
which would have disgraced old Cartwright & the other Puri- 
tans in the reign of Elizabeth; of which, indeed, even they 
would have been ashamed. God change their hearts, say I, & 
bring them to repentance & better minds, or enable our Zion, at 
any rate, to get rid of the author of all this mischief. ]\P^ 
sends her regards to you and yrs, & I remain 

^' Yr. respectful friend & afP^te B"" 

c. H. \y. 

The Rev^ John Croes, D. D., 
" Brunswick, 

" New Jersey." 
Postmarked " Burl" Jan^ 31 ." 

CHEISTIAX HAXCKEL, CANDIDATE FOR DEACON. 

At a meeting of the standing committee at Burlington, on the 
14th day of July, 1812, documents were presented by IMr, 
Christian Hanckelf a candidate for the order of Deacon, wdiich 
being taken into consideration, the following resolution was 
agreed to : 

" Resolv(d, That the said Christian Hanckel be considered a, 
candidate, from the said first day of October, 1812. 

"The Rev. Mr. Wilraer, the Rev. Dr. Wharton, and Mr. 
Joshua M. Wallace, were appointed a committee to examine the 
said Christian Hanckel." 

[Afterwards Rev. Dr. Hanckel a prominent Presbyter of 
South Carolina, who died in 1870, aged 82 years.] 



t"18n, Feb. lltli. Baptized Christian Hanckel, an adult."— PamA 
Megister. 



■•378 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



EXTEMPORE PRAYER AGITATED, j 

''111 the year 1813, a disposition ^.vas manifested by a few 
persons to meet on Sunday evenings for public worship in each 
other's houses; dispensing with the order of Evening Prayer 
prescribed in the Prayer Book : and the same persons thought 
that it would improve the regular services in the Church, if the 
clergyman would offer an extempore prayer before, or after, his 
sermon. Xeither idea was well received in the con2;reo^ation of 
St. Mary generally. And the persons inclined to it, refered the 
matter to Dr. Boudinot, who, from his Huguenot descent and 
Presbyterian relations, it was thouo;ht, mio-lit favor it. Actino\ 
however, under the advice of his friend and kinsman. Judge 
AVallace, who had been more straightly bred in the Church, he 
could not be brought to commit himself. He agreed however 
to refer the matter to the Rector and in certain queries signed 
A Layman,^ he asked Dr. Wharton's opinion as to the mat- 
ter. The Rector, with great discretion, expressed his wish to 
consult Bishop White, whose opinion he felt sure would be re- 
ceived as conclusive. An original letter from the Bishop to Dr. 
Wharton, among the collections of the Historical Society of 
Pennsylvania, gives the Bishop's views," 

BISHOP WHITE OX EXTEMPORE PRAYER. 

Bishop White to Bev. Dr. Wharton. 

''Sep. 26. 1813. 

-''Rey° & DEAR Sir: 

" I rec'^ your Letter of Tuesday & have an Opportunity, by 
Judge Wallace, of freely giving you my Opinion on y® two 
Points prominent in y® Inquiries addressed to you by The 
Eayman. They are Extempore Prayer before after Sermon, 
■& Meetings in private Houses for Worship. 

" In regard to y® former, I remember it to have been under- 
stood, in framing y® 34^^ Canon, that it was considered as 
intended against mixing Prayers of the Minister with y^ pre- 
scribed Service. Further, as notwithstanding y® more energetic 



t We are indebted to John Wrn. Wallace, Esq , President of the Historical 
-Society of Pennsylvania, for this contribution, and the letter following it. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



379 



Authority in established Church of England, there has been 
allowed therein y^ Practice of praying before & after Sermon 
(some Ministers doing this very briefly in a Collect, & others 
more at length according to their own Conceptions) it seems to 
me not wise to endeavour to restrain y^ Matter among us, by 
Ecclesiastical Authority. But when a Minister, because not 
prohibited, instead of a short Prayer confined to y® Impressing 
of religious Instruction on y*^ Minds of y'^ People, branches out 
in Petitions for sundry Matters before solicited from y® Desk, he 
could hardly give a more unequivocal Proof, that he has con- 
formed to y® latter in meer compliance with ecclesiastical Laws ; 
<fe that he is now indulging himself in a way of Praying, more 
agreeable to his Taste. I have known this done sometimes from, 
what manifestly appeared a Disrelish for our Church Service ; 
<fe at other Times, from y® coxcomical Yanity of Self-exhibition. 
In either Case, I believe, that all judicious Members of our 
Church entertain a Dislike of y® Practice. 

As to the other Point, however moderately expressed by y^ 
Layman, it is evidently intended to go to y® Question of those 
religious Societies which in all y® essential Properties of Social 
Worship, differ Nothing from an organized Assembly under 
Name of a Church. My Maxim has always been in Pelation 
to such Societies, neither to encourage, nor to do any Thing to 
counteract them. I do not encourage them because, so far as 
my Knowledge of them extends, they have been conducted on 
such a Plan in y® best of y® Cases, as is alien from what is 
esteemed a rational Worship by our Church ; & in most of 
y^ Cases have been a meer Exercise of what are called Gifts : 
several Persons praying in Succession, generally for y® same 
Things ; which I consider worthy of abhorrence. 

'^If it be asked, why I would not exert myself to counteract 
such Meetings; my principal Reason is, that of y® many which 
I have known from early Life to exist in this City, not one has 
lasted long. Which I take to have been principally owing to 
^:his, that Persons of real Piety & A'irtue, after a while, discover 
that they have become associated with Persons so very faulty in 
important Points that y'' Disrepute of their Characters lights on 



380 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



all Members of a Body, formed on y® Principle of y® Profes- 
sion of an extraordinary Degree of Piety. I will also remark 
that y® Advocates of such Societies are scarcely ever known to 
have a Relish for such Prayer-Meetings as are sanctioned by y® 
Laws & y'^ immemorial usages, of our Church. The Reason is 
evident, in y^ different Maxims by which y® two Species of Wor- 
ship arc conducted. 

I remain, 

" Your aff Brother, 

Wm : White," 

THE STATE OF ST. MARY's CHUKCH. 

''A committee appointed by the Convention in the Diocess of 
Xew Jersey, in May, 1814, for the purpose of examining the 
state of the Church, in that diocess, and ascertaining what 
improvements have taken place, since the sitting of last General 
Convention : 

^'With pleasure, proceed to the state of St. Mary^s Church, 
at Burlington. This congregation, long respectable and flourish- 
ing, continues to preserve its rank among the first in the diocess, 
as well with respect to the number and piety of its members, as 
the value of its funds, and the decency and neatness of its 
Church. The latter has lately been enlarged, and very much 
improved and beautified by a new arrangement of its pulpit 
and pews. 

From the last report of the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Wharton, 
its Rector, it appears that the congregation consists of fifty-six 
families and thirty-eight communicants ; that the number of 
baptisms, since the last General Convention, has been sixty, and 
that, in November last, about thirty-six persons, were confirmed 
by the Right Rev. Bishop White." — Convention Journal. 

THE DEATH OF WILLIAM SMITH. 

" 1814, Oct. 1st. Buried William Smith, aged 84, a Vestry- 
man of this Church." — Parish Register. 



m BURLINGTON. 



381 



He is remembered as standing at the Church door, at Christ- 
mas, Easter, and Whitsunday, with a box to receive the quarterly 
offerings of the people, f 

BR. WHARTOX'S OX OFFICIATING AT MT. HOLLY. 

''Oct' IT'' 1814 

^' Gentlemen 

" The increasing hardness of the times renders it necessary 
for me to look out for some additional sources of income to sup- 
ply the losses which my own little funds are continually ex- 
periencing. — The |600 paid me from the funds of the Church 
are not equivalent to the value of 300, 3 years ago — so that 
after considerable retrenchments, I foresee some embarrassment 
in my expenses. I have as yet made no arrangement in any 
quarter ; and although I do not conceive myself bound by my 
original engagement with the Vestry of this Church to officiate 
oftener than once every Sunday, yet the uniform kindness 
which I have experienced from them for more than 16 years, 
and their willingness to contribute to my emoluments & com- 
fort as far as they have been able have induced me to mention 
ray intention, & to request their approbation of an offer of part 
of my services to another congregation of our Church. It has 
been intimated to me that the congregation at Mount Holly 
would readily accept of such an offer on my part ; wdiich would 
be to officiate in that Church every other Sunday morning, & 
then return to Burlington in time for afternoon service, except- 
ing in the months of December, Jan'y, February & March. 
During these months I would engage to attend occasionally only. 

" On this plan, divine service would be performed at least 
once a day on every Sunday throughout the year, and twice on 



t In the account book of that date are these items — 






"1813 






Dec 25 By Collection at Christmas at the Door 


§6.50 




1814 Communion Table, 


7.88 


14.38 


April 11 By Collection yesterday Easter Sunday 






at the door 


5.85 




Communion Table 


7.59 


13.44 


May 13 By Collection yesterday (Whitsunday) 






at the door 


2.86 




Communion Table 


5.51i 


8.37i 



382 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 

every other Sunday for 8 months. Such are my present inten- 
tions, if the future state of my health should permit me to 
realize them, & should they meet with your chearful approbation. 
" I remain, Gentlemen, your sincere 

" friend & h'ble servant in Xt 

" Charles H. Whartox." 

To the Vestry/^ 

SECOND ELECTION OF A BISHOP FOR NEW JERSEY. 

Aug. 30th, 1815. The annual Conventou of the Diocese of 
Kew Jersey, was held, in St. Michael's Church, Trenton. A 
sermon was delivered by the Eev. Charles H. Wharton, D. D., 
Rector of St. Mary's Church, Burlington. The Rev. John 
Croes, D. D., President of the last Convention, took the chair. 
The other clergy present were the Rev"^^ John C. Rudd, of Eliz- 
abeth Town ; Simon Wilmer, of Swedesborough ; James Chap- 
man of Perth Amboy ; John Croes, elun., of Shrewsbury ; Lewi.- 
Pintard Bayard, of Newark ; George Y. Morehouse, Deacon, of 
Mount Holly. 

Eighteen parishes were represented by lay-deputies, those 
from Burlington being Joshua M. Wallace, AVilliam Coxe, and 
Jackson B. Erench. 

" The Rev. Mr. Rudd, by the sixth article, took the chair, as 
President. On motion of the Rev. Dr. Croes, it was resolved, 
that the thanks of the Convention be presented to the Rev. Dr. 
AVharton, for his sermon delivered this day, at their request. 

On motion, the Convention went into the election of a Bishop, 
by orders^ and the Rev. Messrs. Chapman, and Wilmer, and Rob- 
ert Boggs, Esq., were appointed a committee to receive and count 
the ballots. 

" The committee, after examining the votes, reported that there 
were, 

Eor the Rev. John Croes, D. D., 4 Clergymen, 15 Churches. 
" Eor the Rev. Charles H. Wharton, D. D., 1 Clergyman, 5 
Churches ; and that, 

" The Rev. Dr. Wharton and the Rev. Dr. Croes did not vote.t 



f Only two months previous, Br. Croes had been elected to the Episcopate 
of Connecticut, And while the committee of that Diocese Avere in correspon- 
dence with their Bishop-elect, in regard to his support, consecration and 
removal, the Convention of ISTew Jersey, elected him Avith great unanimity to 
the Episcopate of that Diocese. New Jersey was his home, and with two 
'-nitres before him, he took the one which would allow him to remain among 
his old friends. — Beardsleyh History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut. 



IX BUELIXGTON. 



383; 



" The election being in favour of the Eev. Dr. Croes, the Con- 
vention proceeded to sign the Testimonial, required bv the third' 
Canon of the General Convention, t 

The Convention, on motion, went into the election of a Stand- 
ing Committee, and of Deputies to the General Convention. For 
the Standing Committee, in addition to the President, whoise.i- 
ojficio President of that body, the following were appointed : 
the Rev. Dr. AVharton, Rev. John Croes, Jun., Rev. L. P. Bay- 
ard, Joshua M. AVallace, Robert Boggs, Isaac Lawrence, Isaac- 
H. Williamson. 

For Deputies to the General Convention: the Rev. Dr. 
Wharton, Rev. John C. Rudd, Rev. S. AVilmer, Rev. J. Chap- 
man, Joshua M. Wallace, Josiah Harrison, William Chetwood,. 
Peter Kean.'^ — Convention Joinmal. 

A SUXDAY SCHOOL OEGAXIZED. 

In the spring of 1816, a Sunday School was organized, in 
St. Mary^s Parish, in the building of the Burlington Academy, 
through the efforts of Charles P. Mcllvaine, and others. Mr. 
Mcllvaine was then but a little more than seventeen years of 
age. On the first day of the opening of the Sunday School, 
about forty children were present, and six teachers, viz : Charles- 
P. Mcllvaine, Thomas Aikman, Mary Wallace, Rachel Wal- 
lace, Susan Sterling, and Bertha S. Ellis, j 

PROSPECTS FEOM THE SUXDAT SCHOOL. 

Aug. 28th, 1816, the Rev. Dr. Wharton appends to his paro- 
chial report : " That the congregation is attentive and regular ; 
and that, from the establishment of a Sunday School, consisting 
of about 150 persons, there is a promising, prospect of a consid- 
erable accession to the Church.'^ 

t The Eev. J ohn Croes, D. D., was consecrated as the first Bishop of iJsew 
Jersey, on Sunday, Nov. 19th, 1815, in St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, by 
the Et. Eev. William "White, D. D., presiding Bishop, the Et. Eev. John 
Henry Hobart, D. D., Assistant Bishop of New York, and the Et. Eev. James- 
Kemp, D. D., Suffragan Bishop of Maryland. For a full biographical notice 
of Bishop Croes, see Sprague's Annals,- pp. 378-383. 

i Mrs. Davidson, formerly Bertha S. Ellis, communicated these facts to me 
in Burlington, May 25th, 1872. G. m. h. 



384 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



GIFT OF A BAPTISiAIAL BOWL. 

The Parish received a silver baptismal bowl, which, in Sep., 
1839, (together with a piece of silver presented by Mrs. Kath- 
rine Pierce, in 1745,) was made into an alms bason, having on 
the bottom of it this inscription : Presented by Elias Boudinot, 
LL. D., for the use of St. Mary's Church in Bnrlington, 1816." 

THE SUPPORT OF A BISHOP. 

Extract from the minutes of St. Mary^s Churchy of Jan. \st, 1817. 

^' A circular letter to the Rev. Doctor Wharton, Rector, 
accompanied by a book containing an extract from the minutes 
of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
Diocess of New Jersey, respecting the mode of raising subscrip- 
tions for the support of a Bishop in this State, and recommending 
the circulation of subscriptions for said purpose, was laid before 
the Vestry by the Rector according to the desire of a Committee 
of the Yestry of the Church at New Brunswick, and requesting 
that suitable persons might be appointed by the Yestry of this 
Church to circulate a subscription book ' through this Parish,' 
&c., &c. In consequence of which M. Hancock and Mr. AYal- 
lace were appointed a committee for the said purpose." 
'^A true Extract certified by 

" Joshua M. Wallace, Sec'ij^ 

A LEGACY FOR CHANDELIERS. 

At the close of his Parochial Report for 1817, Dr. Wharton 
adds : A legacy of 266 dollars has been left to the Church, by 
the late Miss Riche, to purchase chandeliers and branches for 
the Church, which purpose has been complied with." Also, 
that " a new roof has been put on tlie Church the present sum- 
mer." 

STATE OF THE CONGREGATION. 

Aug. 19th, 1818. The Rector appends to his parochial 
report these words : Attendance at Church, tolerably regular, 
and becoming more so. No immoralities prevailing in the con- 
gregation, nor any dissensions to interrupt Christian love and 



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385 



harmony. It is contemplated to institute a Tract Society, with 
a view to a general circulation of pamphlets, containing the doc- 
trines and devotional exercises of the Church/^ 

DEATH OF JOSHUA M. WALLACE. 

''1819, May 19th. Buried Joshua M. Wallace, an old and 
pious officer of this Church. He died on the 17th." — Parish 
Register. The following is the inscription on his altar-tomb : 

" In memory of Joshua Maddox Wallace, born October 4th, 
1752, died May 17th, 1819. A man of eminent piety, disin- 
terested Benevolence and active usefulness. A scholar and pro- 
moter of learning. Brought up in the bosom of the Church, 
and attached to her principles, he was ever active in her ser- 
vice, frequently in her councils, and for many years a Warden 
of this congregation.'^ 

A LAY READER LICENSED FOR BURLIJsGTOX. 

In the address of Bishop Croes to the Convention held Aug. 
18th, 1819, he says: '^Licenses have been granted to Clarkson 
Dunn, a candidate in this Diocess to officiate as a Lay Reader, 
in the vacant churches at Woodbridge and Piscataway ; and to 
Charles Mcllvaine, a candidate in the Diocess of Pennsylvania, 
to officiate, in the same capacity, at St. Mary's Church, Burling- 
ton, in the absence of its Hector, the Rev. Dr. Wharton." 

DOXATIOXS TO THE EPISCOPAL FUXD. 

At the same Convention, (1819,) the Rev. John C. Rudd, 
who was appointed at the preceding Convention to visit the 
congregations of the Diocese, and solicit donations to the Epis- 
copal Fund, reported the names of eleven Churches visited, in 
each of which, he says, " Divine Service was performed and he 
preached a sermon, and explained the object and design of his 
visit. When application was made in St. Mary's Church, Bur- 
lington, many of the congregation were absent, and other 
circumstances united to prevent as general a call upon the con- 
gregation as was intended." In his statement following we find 
this item: " St. Mary's, Burlington, subscribers 9-amount $85. 
Unpaid |2." 

2b 



388 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



''Elias Boudinot was born in Philadelphia, May 2, 1740, from 
French Huguenot ancestry, who came to America soon after the 
revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He received a good educa- 
tion, and entered upon the practice of the law in New Jersey. 
He early espoused the cause of the colonies in their differences 
with Great Britain, and in 1777 was appointed Commissary- 
General of prisoners, and in the same year elected a member of 
the Continental Congress. In 1782 he was made President of 
that body, and signed in 1783 our treaty of peace with Great 
Britain. At a subsequent date he was elected a member of the 
Congress of the United States under the present constitution. 
In 1796 he was appointed by President Washington, Director 
of the Mint, an office which he held till 1805, when he retired 
from all public employments, and fixed his residence in Burling- 
ton, and devoted himself to benevolent and literary pursuits. 
He became a trustee of Princeton College in 1805, and endowed 
it w^ith a cabinet of natural history. In 1812 he was a member 
of the A. B. C. F. M., and in 1816 was made the first President 
of the American Bible Society ; an institution in which he ever 
took great interest, and to which in a single donation he gave 
§10,000, a great sum of money at the time. His wife was a sis- 
ter of Richard Stockton, the signer of the Declaration, whose own 
wife was a sister of Mr. Boudinot. He had one child, a daughter, 
who became the wife of the Hon. William Bradford, Attorney- 
General of the United States in the presidency of Washington. 
Mr. Boudinot died at his residence, at the northwest corner of 
Talbot and Broad streets, in Burlington, October 24, 1821, and 
is buried in the grounds of St. Mary's Church; upon the 
services of which church he was a devout attendant from his 
coming to Burlington, in 1805, till his death.'' — John Wm. 
Wallace. 



of useful talent, and of extensive benevolence. His death was the triumph of 
Christian faith, the consummation of hope, the dawn and the pledge of endless 
felicity. 

" To those Avho knew him not, no words can paint ; 
"And those who knew him, know all words are faint. 
" ' Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is 
peace.' " • 



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389 



MES. GIBBES, BUEIED. 

'^822, July 22^ Buried Sarah Maxwel Gibbes, Wife of the 
Rev'^ Alston Gibbes^ of Charleston, S. C/' — Parish Register.^; 

A large mural tablet, of handsome design, is inserted in the 

south east wall of old St. Mary's Church, with this inscription : 

In Memory 
of 

SAEAH MAXWELL GIBBES, 
daughter of 
Alex. K. Cliisolm, 
and wife of 
Allston Gibbes, 
of South Carolina, i pf 

born July, A. D. MDCCXCIIL 

Eichly endowed with Nature's gifts 
of mind, heart, and person ; 
with a sound judgment, and playful fancy, 
an amiable temper, and engaging manners ; 
affable, but modest ; lively, but discreet ; 
a sincere and generous friend ; 
a pattern of filial duty and affection ; 
a tender, faithful, and a loving wife : 
she charmed the social circle, 
and blessed the domestic sphere ; 
equally admired, respected, and beloved 
a Christian in faith, in heart, and in life, 
Tcverencing God, and submissive to his will, 
she adorned his gifts with humility, 
and bore his inflictions with patience ; 
and young in years, but ripe in virtue, 
worn with suffering, but firm in hope, 
she calmly sunk to rest, 
July XXr, An. Dom. MDCCCXXII ; An. AET. XXIX. 

Fair, Modest, AVise, Discreet, True, Generous, Kind, 
Pure, Virtuous, Humble, Pious, Meek, Eesigned ; 
To Earth by Fate, by Faith to Heaven allied. 
She lived to bless, but to be blest she died. 



t This lady died at Bordentown, N. J., and her remains were brought, for 
interment in St. Mary's Churchyard. The headstone at her grave bears these 
words : 

" Here resteth the mortal part of Sarah Maxwell Gibbes, Consort of the 
Eey. Allston Gibbes, of South Carolina, who calmly resigned a life of sorrow, 
which she adorned with every virtue, and met Death without fear, in firm 
iiopes of a happier home, July'21st, A. D. 1822, An. AET. 29." 



390 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



MARRIAGE OF THE REV. CHARLES P. m'iLVAINE. 

" 1822, Oct. 8tli. Married the Rev'' Charles P. Mcllvaine 
and Emily Coxe.'^ — Parish Register. 

The Rt. Rev. Charles P. Mcllvaine, D. D., D. C. L., LL. D., 

for nearly forty years Bishop of Ohio, has favored us with the 
following communications : 

BISHOP m'iLVAINE TO THE REV. DR. HILLS. 

"Cincinnati, April 1, 1872. 

" Rea^ and dear Sir : — 

" I have received your kind letter of Thursday last, and pro- 
ceed to answer your enquiries. 

"I was born in Burlington, Jan. 18, 1799, where my 
mother's parents, Bowes Reed and Mrs. Reed, (the brother of 
Joseph Reed, of Phila., confidential Sec'y of Gen. Washington,) 
lived. My father's father, Joseph Mcllvaine, (Colonel in the 
Revolution,) lived at Bristol, where his grave is. 

I was born in the brick house at the N. W. corner of Main 
and Broad streets, and lived, until I was about 14 years of age, 
in the white brick house on Main street, at the S. corner of the 
alley leading to the town Library. My father, (Joseph 
Mcllvaine,) built the house opposite the old Church, on Broad 
street, about the year 1813, and there I lived with my parents 
until I was ordained Deacon by Bishop White, July 4, 1820, 
and went to my first parish, Georgetown, Del. The graves of 
four generations of my family — from the parents of my mother 
down to a daughter of my sister, Mrs. Commodore Engle — are 
in the grave yard of St. Mary's, including those of my parents 
and six brothers, of whom I am the only surviving brother. 
The graves of my wife's parents, (William and Rachel Coxe,) 
and of a brother, (Dr. Wm. Coxe,) and a sister, (Maria Coxe,) 
&c., are also there, behind the old Church, besides uncles, (Dr. 
Mcllvaine and Gen. Bloomfield and Mrs. B.,) and many cousins. 
My father and next elder brother, Bloomfield, died, in the 
house opposite the Church, in 1826 — in adjoining rooms, and 



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391 



on two adjoining days — and were placed in one grave, f I was 
baptized in the old Church, by Dr. Wharton, in my 15th year. 
My mother having scruples about presenting her children to 
baptism while not a communicant herself, (which she afterwards 
was,) explains why I was not baptized before. I have not the 
date, but it was in 1814, while I was in Princeton College. I 
received my education, preparatory to College, in the Burling- 
ton Academy, an incorporated institution : the building stood 
on the ground now occupied by the new Church, and was taken 
down to make a place for that Church. The late Eev. Chris- 
tian Hanckel, D. D., of Charleston, S. C, was one of my tutors. 
He succeeded his brother John in that school, as Master, whose 
grave (John^s) and monument are in that grave yard. Dr. 
AYharton and my father, and my wife's father, Wm. Coxe, Esq., 
were Trustees of that Academy. My family all attended the 
ministry of Dr. Wharton, and I with them, until ordained, 
except when I was at Princeton ; indeed until I went to Col- 
lege, I had never seen the worship of any other denomination, 
except when a child taken by my nurse to the Baptist, or some- 
times, while a boy, looking in out of curiosity, at the old 
Methodist house in the alley above mentioned. I was a candi- 
date for orders four years, being too young to be ordained, 
before the expiration of that period, during which time, except 
18 months in the Theological Seminary of Princeton, (our 
Church then having no Seminary,) I lived in Burlington read- 
ing under Dr. Wharton. During that period I organized the 
Sunday School of St. Mary's Church, one of the first Sunday 
Schools organized in the United States. I -superintended it, 
till I was ordained. Thos. Aikman, a very good Scotch Pres- 
byterian, (the Clerk of the Parish under Dr. Wharton,) was my 
chief male teacher. That school has continued to this day. 
Dr. Ellis's cousin, (Bertha S.,) was also a teacher. Also that 
dear Christian woman. Miss Neale, [youngest daughter of 
Thomson Neale,] who recently died in Burlington. 



t " 1826, Aug. 20th. Buried Joseph and Bloomfield Mcllvaine, father and 
son, in one grave." — Parish Begider. 



390 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



MARRIAGE OF THE REV. CHARLES P. m'iLVAIXE. 

" 1822, Oct. 8th. Married the Rev^ Charles P. Mcllvame 
and Emily Coxe.'^ — Parish Register. 

The Rt. Rev. Charles P. Mcllvaine, D. D., D. C. L., LL. D., 

for nearly forty years Bishop of Ohio, has favored us with the 
following communications : 

BISHOP m'iLVAIXE TO THE REV. DR. HILLS. 

"Cincinnati, April 1, 1872. 

" Rev. and dear Sir : — 

^' I have received your kind letter of Thursday last, and pro- 
ceed to answer your enquiries. 

"I was born in Burlington, Jan. 18, 1799, where my 
mother's parents, Bowes Reed and Mrs. Reed, (the brother of 
Joseph Reed, of Phila., confidential Sec'y of Gen. Washington,) 
lived. My father's father, Joseph Mcllvaine, (Colonel in the 
Revolution,) lived at Bristol, where his grave is. 

I was born in the brick house at the N. W. corner of Main 
and Broad streets, and lived, until I was about 14 years of age, 
in the white brick house on Main street, at the S. corner of the 
alley leading to the town Library. My father, (Joseph 
Mcllvaine,) built the house opposite the old Church, on Broad 
street, about the year 1813, and there I lived with my parents 
until I was ordained Deacon by Bishop White, July 4, 1820, 
and went to my first parish, Georgetown, Del. The graves of 
four generations of my family — from the parents of my mother 
down to a daughter of my sister, Mrs. Commodore Engle — are 
in the grave yard of St. Mary's, including those of my parents 
and six brothers, of whom I am the only surviving brother. 
The graves of my wife's parents, (William and Rachel Coxe,) 
and of a brother, (Dr. Wm. Coxe,) and a sister, (Maria Coxe,) 
(fee, are also there, behind the old Church, besides uncles, (Dr. 
Mcllvaine and Gen. Bloomfield and Mrs. B.,) and many cousins. 
My father and next elder brother, Bloomfield, died, in the 
house opposite the Church, in 1826 — in adjoining rooms, and 



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on two adjoining days — and were placed in one grave, f I was 
baptized in the old Church, by Dr. Wharton, in my 15th year. 
My mother having scruples about presenting her children to 
baptism while not a communicant herself, (which she afterwards 
was,) explains why I was not baptized before. I have not the 
date, but it w^as in 1814, while I was in Princeton College. I 
received my education, preparatory to College, in the Burling- 
ton Academy, an incorporated institution : the building stood 
on the ground now occupied by the new Church, and was taken 
down to make a place for that Church. The late Rev. Chris- 
tian Hanckel, D. D., of Charleston, S. C, was one of my tutors. 
He succeeded his brother John in that school, as Master, whose 
grave (John's) and monument are in that grave yard. Dr. 
AYharton and my father, and my wife's father, Wm. Coxe, Esq., 
were Trustees of that Academy. My family all attended the 
ministry of Dr. Wharton, and I with them, until ordained, 
except when I w^as at Princeton ; indeed until I went to Col- 
lege, I had never seen the worship of any other denomination, 
except when a child taken by my nurse to the Baptist, or some- 
times, while a boy, looking in out of curiosity, at the old 
Methodist house in the alley above mentioned. I was a candi- 
date for orders four years, being too young to be ordained, 
before the expiration of that period, during which time, except 
18 months in the Theological Seminary of Princeton, (our 
Church then having no Seminary,) I lived in Burlington read- 
ing under Dr. Wharton. During that period I organized the 
Sunday School of St. Mary's Church, one of the first Sunday 
Schools organized in the United States. I .superintended it, 
till I was ordained. Thos. Aikman, a very good Scotch Pres- 
byterian, (the Clerk of the Parish under Dr. Wlmrton,) was my 
chief male teacher. That school has continued to this day. 
Dr. Ellis's cousin, (Bertha S.,) was also a teacher. Also that 
dear Christian woman, Miss Xeale, [youngest daughter of 
Thomson Neale,] who recently died in Burlington. 



t"1826, Aug. 20th. Buried Joseph and Bloomfield Mcllvaine, father and 
son, in one grave.'^ — Parish Begister. 



392 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



My wife's father, Mr. Coxe, (he was Treasurer and "Warden 
of St. Mary's,) lived until a short time before our marriage, in 
the brick house which he built on the bank, at the corner of Wood 
street, afterwards sold to and inhabited by Horace Binney, Esq., 
ofPhila. My father's uncle. Dr. Wm. Mcllvaine, lived and 
died in the large house on the bank, which Mr. Charles Chaun- 
cey afterwards occupied, and where, before him, lived the grand 
parents, (John Griffith and wife,) of the present Rev. Dr. 
Francis Wharton. His mother grew up there. I was married 
at Sunbury, a country seat, (near the town,) where my father- 
in-law, Mr. Coxe, then lived, and wliich, I believe, has gone 
to decay. 

One of the most precious graves in that dear old church-yard, 
(precious to the Lord of life,) is that of Maria Coxe, my wife's 
elder sister, whose Christian character and life were as precious 
ointment at the Saviour's feet, whose good works were as well 
known in Burlington as those of Dorcas, at Joppa. 

While a candidate at Burlington, I officiated as a lay-reader 
at Bristol, during a vacancy in that parish. 

" Thus I believe I have answered your enquiries. I have been 
thus particular in order to show how I have been identified with 
Burlington and St. Mary's, and how dear its associations are to 
me, and how ^ I look for the resurrection of the dead,' in that 
grave-yard. 

" I remain, 

Your friend and brother, 

Chas. p. McIlyaixe. 

" Ilev. Geo. Morgan Hills, B. D. 

" P. S. — I might have said that in a few weeks after I was 
ordained by Bishop White, (in St. Peter's, Phila.,) I preached 
for Dr. Wharton, in St. Mary's, and many times afterwards. 
The last time I preached there, was in the old Church, before 
the new was begun." 

BISHOP m'iLYAINE TO THE KEY. DR. HILLS. 

Cincinnati, April 9, 1872. 

Rey. axd dear Sir : — 

I am glad to learn from your letter of the 4th, that you are 
engaged on a history of the Burlington Church. — You ask if 



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393 



you ^may incorporate my letter, or the main portion of it.' — 
Though it was written without any idea that you were prepar- 
ing a history, and I went so much into detail, solely for the pur- 
pose of showing you, how very much, my personal history is con- 
nected with Burlington, I have no objection to your hiGorporat- 
ing it ^ in the main J * * 

You ask whether I originated as well as organized the Sun- 
day School. It came in this way. While I was in College in 
Princeton, one of my class-mates, John Newbold, of Phila., 
(who in graduating became a candidate for orders, but died 
before he could be ordained,) on returning to College from a 
vacation, brought to us students an account of a Sunday School 
he had attended in Philadelphia. It was in the very beginning 
of Sunday Schools in this country. He brought specimens of 
the blue and red tickets used. A number of the students in 
College formed a S. S. Society and raised a fund of about |I00, 
of which I, (then in my 17th year,) was made Treasurer. We 
set up four Schools in and about Princeton. I and John New- 
bold, and (I think) the present Dr. Hodge, of Princeton, and 
the present Bishop Johns, (a class-mate of Dr. Hodge, and both 
a year before me,) were teachers in different Schools. My first 
extempore address, was then made to the School I was detailed 
to, in a barn of what was called Jug Town, a suburb of Prince- 
ton. Going home in 18 16, the project of the Burlington School 
originated. Such a thing had never been heard of in Burling- 
ton. I first obtained Dr. Wharton's approbation, and then 
began to talk it up. Mr. Aikman, the Clerk of the Church co- 
operated. I must here correct what I said about my superin- 
tending the School. This I did in the time, f^one year,) between 
my graduating and returning to Princeton to enter the Theolog- 
ical Seminary, when I thus returned to Princeton, Mr. Aikman 
became superintendent. The organization took place and the 
School was always held in the Academy — as long, I believe, as 
Dr. Wharton continued Pector — and how much longer I do not 
know. 

" The organization took place in the spring of 1816. Con- 
sider that I was then only 17 years of age — and therefore almost 
all concerned, except as pupils, must have been older — And as 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



I am now in my 74th year, it is not likely that any body lives 
who was actively concerned in those things then. I was not 
aware that my name has been taken by one of the classes, but I 
am much pleased to know it now. I intended to say, in connec- 
tion with the old Rectors, that my dear mother was baptized by 
one of them in infancy. I have distinct recollection of hearing 
her speak of him, but do not remember his name. Perhaps her 
name is in the Register, Ilaria Reed.'\ 

Seeing that the old Church was not to be kept as a Churchy 
it seems a pity that it had not been allowed to remain in the 
form and furniture of its pristine Anglican origin. I remem- 
ber it well, a straight sided Church, without any side projection, 
standing East and West, with a gallery and organ and clerk's 
desk at the AVest end, chancel at the East, entrance on the 
South side, and a door to the yard on the North, pulpit and read- 
ing desk before it against the North wall, and about two-thirds 
of the extent towards the East, an immense baptismal font, with 
a great mahogany cover rising from all sides to a point, a pew- 
ter basin inside. It stood under the gallery. There were 
grave stones, as in English Churches, in the one aisle where two 
or three of the former generations were buried. — When the old 
Church was transformed to what is now called the old Church, 
these stones were taken up and put at the South, near the East 
end, and at the East end. But an internal ohimgQ had taken place 
before that transformation, somewhere about 1811. The old pul- 
pit, and desk with its English sounding-board had been taken 
down, and a new and outlandish thing, (a carpenter's device,) had 
been put up at the East end with desk before it, and a little 
closet of a robing room under it. 

" In the real old Church remained till tliat change, the old 
pew of the Governor of the Province in Colonial times, large, 
square, elevated, high sided, [with a canopy upheld by pillars,] 
standing in the S. E. corner. The Griffith family occupied it 
before the change, and our pew was next, but one. West. 

It is an interesting part of this history that until after 1832, 
there being no Presbyterian congregation in Burlington, (only 

fThe Parish Register contains this entry in the handwriting of Dr. Odeil- 
"Baptized, Decern. 5, 1775, Maria, of Bowes & Margaret Keed, born Novr- 
11th, 1775." 



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395 



a Baptist, Quaker and Methodist,) the PresbyteriaDS attended 
at St. Mary's, and had no thought of any thing else. Thus 
Thos. Aikman, the Clerk, Dr. Boudinot, Mr. Bradford, his 
daughter, two cousins of my mother. Misses Reed sisters of Joseph 
Reed, of Phila., and daughters of Gen. Reed, mentioned in my 
last letter, also General Bloomfield, for many terms Governor of 
the State, who married Dr. Mcllvaine and my grandfather' ssister. 
" Your friend and brother, 

*'Chas. p. MclLVAINE.f 
The Rev. Geo. Morgan Hills, D. D." 

GEX. BLOOMFIELD. 

1823, Oct. 5th. Buried Gen. Joseph Bloomfield."— Par/s/^ 
Register. 

MARRIAGE OF THE REV. MR. HALL. 

1824, March 2^^ Married in the Church, the Rev'' M'^ 
Hall and Sarah Lucas.'' — Parish Register. [This was the Rev, 
Richard D. Hall, who died at Mount Holly, July 28th, 1873, 
aged 84 years.] 

THE CONDITION OF THE PARISH. 

Aug. 18, 1824. The Rector adds to the statistics of his paro- 
chial report : " That devout attention is in general paid to 
Divine service, and to the rubrics of the Church, that an associ- 
tion of Young Ladies has been formed in aid of the Missionary 
Pund, and as the fruit of their edifying industry, a respectable 
sum has been raised. It is believed, and is a subject of humble 
thanksgiving to the Divine Head of the Church, that a spirit of 
genuine religion is increasing in this congregation. It may be 
well to specify in this report the sum raised by the association 
of Young Ladies of Burlington, which has only been in exist- 
ence for the last six months. By the most incessant exertions 
they have raised §75, $50 of which they have appropriated to 
constituting their Rector a Patron of the General Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society, and the balance $25 to the N. J. 
Missionary Fund. The Rector reports further, that on every 
Wednesday evening he delivers a lecture on the Acts of the 
Apostles, which is respectfully attended." 



f^Bishop Mcllvaine died in Europe,, Marcli. 12th, 1873. 



396 HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



EDWAED SHIPPE^^ WATSOX. 

1826, May 1st. Baptized Edward Shippen Watson, an 
Infant." — Parish Register. [Afterwards ordained in St. Mary^s 
Church ; and now (1876) Rector of St. James' Church, Lancas- 
ter, Pa.] 

THE DEATH OF WILLIAM GRIFFITH, ESQ. 

June 8th, 1826. Buried William Griffith.'' Such is the 
record, in the handwriting of Dr. Wharton, in the first Parish 
Pegister. 

Mr. William Griffith was one of the Justices of the Circuit 
Courts of the United States as constituted by what was called 
Mr. Adams's Judiciary Act of 1801 ; an organization of the 
IS'ational Courts, which Mr. Binney f tells us was deemed, by 
wise men of all sides, the happiest organization of our Federal 
Judiciary, but which, he says, ^ having grown up amidst the 
contentions of party, was not spared by that which spares noth- 
ing.' On the election of President Jefferson, the whole court 
was abolished; ^and Judges who had received their commissions 
during good behavior were deprived of their offices without the 
imputation of a fault.' The bench in the 3rd circuit, (the cir- 
cuit comprising Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware,) was 
composed of William Tilghman, afterwards well known as Chief 
Justice of Pennsylvania ; Richard Basset, of Delaware ; and Wil- 
liam Griffith, of New Jersey. The first of these is an historic 
name, and the second is sufficiently known. Mr. Griffith's 
deserves not less honor than has been paid to either of them. 
He was a native of New Jersey, and resided at Burlington, in 
which city he died, in June, 1826. ^ It . would be difficult,' 
said an accomplished literary character of New Jersey, his friend, 
the Rev. Charles Henry Wharton, D. D., ^ to form a wish for 
more splendid talents, more professional acquirements, more 
ardent and unsophisticated attachment to his country, than 
shone conspicuously in the character of William Griffith. He 
was literally a father to the fatherless, a friend to the widow, 
and a benefactor to the distressed of every description. The 



t Eulogy on AVilliam Tilgham, p. 11, Philadelphia, 1827. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



397 



pleasure of doing good was the reward of his otherwise unpaid 
services. Selfishness, even in its most allowable form, seemed 
scarcely to constitute a feature of his character. He appeared 
only to live for his family and friends.^ The Corporation of 
Burlington, of which city, at the time of his death, he was 
Mayor, ^ deeply deploring the loss of his great talents, public 
services, and exalted worth,' justly, ^declared him entitled to 
the highest esteem and regard ; ' and the Assembled Bar of hi& 
native State — Mr. Richard Stockton being at that time its lead- 
ing member, and the originator, I presume, of this honorable 
testimonial — expressed as their united sense that ^ while circum- 
stances which he could not control, had deprived the latter years 
of a useful life of the fruits of a long, able, and honorable prac- 
tice at the bar, they yet reflected with pride and satisfaction, 
upon his eminent talents, his personal virtues, the fortitude that 
sustained, and the integrity that guided his conduct in the trying 
scenes of his life.' Mr. Griffith was the author of a most useful 
and accurate work, of an ephemeral kind unfortunately, and 
never completed, called ^ The United States Law Register ' ; as also 
of a smaller volume of great practical use to the inferior magis- 
tracy of his native State, called ' The New Jersey Justice of 
the Peace.' A biography of Mr. Griffith is contained in a 
recently published volume of the Lives of eminent lawyers of his 
State." — Wallace^s American Reporters. 

DR. WHAETON's resolutions IN CONVENTION. 

May 28th, 1828. The annual Diocesan Convention was held 
in St. Mary's, Burlington, the Rt. Rev. Bishop Croes, presiding. 
The lay-deputies from Burlington, were William Coxe, Andrew 
Allen, John H. Carr, and Dr. W. S. Coxe. The Rev. George 
Weller, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Domestic and For- 
eign Missionary Society, and the Rev. Wra. R. Whittingham, f 
of New York, Secretary of the Gen. Prot. Epis. S. S. Union, 
were invited to seats. 

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Wharton, the following resolu- 
tion was unanimously adopted : 

t The Kev. Wm. K. Whittingham, was consecrated Bishop of Maryland^ 
Sep. 17th, 1840. 



398 HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH 



''Whereas, it is a clistiDguishiDg feature of our Church, that 
she adopts a form of Common Prayer in her public worship ; 
and whereas, such prayer evidently implies a union of devout 
and audible voices, both in the congregation and the minister ; 
therefore, 

B.esolved, That it be earnestly recommended to all the congre- 
gations in this Diocese to repeat distinctly, all the responses and 
prayers, as the Rubric directs/' 

The Rev. Dr. Wharton moved the following resolution, 
which was unanimously adopted : 

" Resolved, That this Convention highly approve of the object 
and designs of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of 
America ; and recommend it to the attention and patronage of 
the members of the Church in this Diocese.'' 

DEATH OF THE WIDOW OF BISHOP JARYIS. 

1829, May 7th. Buried at Trenton, Mrs. Lucy Jarvis, who 
died most edifyingly at Burlington, May 5th." — Parish Register. 
[This was the widow of the Rt. Rev. Bishop Jarvis, of Con- 
necticut.] 

A EE-ARE AXGEMENT OF PEW EEisTS. 

" At a meeting of the vestry of S^ Mary's Church in the city of 
Burlington, held May 31, 1831, their attention was called to 
the state of the pew rents, which appeared not to have been for 
some years according to any uniform ratio, and it was proposed 
to appoint a committee to consider & report upon the subject, 
M"" James H. Sterling & D"" William S. Coxe were designated 
for this purpose, who not coinciding in their views, at a subse- 
c|uent meeting in June 1831 submitted two separate reports. 
The following, being that of D'' W™ S. Coxe, was adopted by 
the vestry. 

"The undersigned, one of the committee appointed at a meeting 
of the vestry on the 31^' ult. to digest such a mode of arranging 
the pew-rents as may be convenient and at the same time just, 
respectfully reports, that it would be difficult and perhaps im- 
possible to effect any immediate and material alteration that 
would not be liable to occasion dissatisfaction and complaint. 
He therefore proposes that no other change should be now made 
than to put the pew numbered 22 at an annual rent of §9.00 
and that numbered 11 at $14.00. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



399 



With a view to the ultimate adoption of such an arrangement 
as may be desirable, it is proposed that a list of the present pew- 
holders be made out, designating the particular pews or frac- 
tions of such pews as they respectively hold, and the amount of 
rent now paid by each individual on the list, but including the 
alterations before suggested ; that this list be inserted in the 
treasurer's book as a permanent standard of reference ; that as 
long as such pew-holders shall continue to hold the pews or 
parts of pews for which they shall appear responsible on this 
list, they shall continue to pay the sums attached to their re- 
spective names and no more, unless a uniform addition be made, 
or a per centage added to the rent of each pew ; that for any 
addition to the number of seats for which any one shall appear 
responsible on the aforesaid list, or in case of a removal to 
another pew, or of a change in the name of the responsible pew- 
holder even in the same family, or in the case of every new 
engagement for a pew or part of a pew, the rate of renting in all 
such cases to be conformable to the arrangement now to be pro- 
posed. 

" The uniform mode of rating the pew-rents which is proposed 
to be thus gradually adopted, is to establish the annual rents of 
the eleven eastern pews on the southern side of the aisle as here- 
tofore at 116.00 : in receding from the pulpit, each one beyond 
these to be successively one dollar less than that immediately 
before it to N*" 13 ; this pew to be rated at $10.00, and the same 
progressive diminution of one dollar in the annual amount of 
rent to continue thenceforth to the western end of the church : 
on the north side, the eleven eastern pews to be rated at $15.00; 
beyond these the rent to lessen one dollar for each pew in suc- 
cession to N'^ 22 ; this and N° 21 to be at $9.00 ; N" 20 to be at 
$8.00; N° 19 at $7.50, N° 18 at $7.00, and N° 17 at $6.50. 

Each pew hereafter rented, to be reckoned at six sittings, and 
every person (henceforward) engaging for a single sitting, to pay 
one fifth part of the sum at which the whole pew is rated, and 
every person engaging for two or more sittings to pay one sixth 
part of the total annual rent of the pew^for every sitting in such 
pew for which he or she may become responsible. This as well 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



as the former part of the arrangement it is proposed to apply to 
all the cases specified in the conclusion of the second paragraph 
of this report; all of ^Yhich is respectfully submitted. — 

" William S. Coxe one of \ 
the committee, j 

St Mary's church 

Burlington X. J. June 1831.—" 



SECOND DIAGRAM OF ST. MARY S CHURCH. 

A diagram, in the archiyes of the Parish, represents the 
Church, at this date, thus : 




Slo 00. 


33 


S15 00.' 


32 


Slo 00. 


31 


§15 00. 


30 


?15 00. 


29 


S15 00. 


28 


S15 00. 


27 


Slo 00. 


26 


X. E. new pew, §15 


x.w. new 


pew, §15 


S14 00. 


25 


S13 00. 


24 


S12 00. 


23 


S9 00. 


— r 


S9 00. 


21 


S8 00. 


20 


S7 50. 


19 


S7 00. 


18 


S6 50. 


17 





2 


§16 00. 


3 516 00. 


4 


§16 00. 


5 


§16 00. 


6 


§10 00. 


7 S16 00.- 


8 S16 00. 


9 


§16 00. 


S. E. 


new pew, §16 


S. W. 


new pew, §16 


10 


§15 00. 


11 


§14 00. 


12 S13 00. 



§10 00. i 



00. 



15 


§8 00. 


16 


§7 00. 



a. Pulpit, b. Reading Desk. c. Holy Table, d. Font. e. Eector's Chair. 
/. Chancel. (/. West Door. h. Staircase to Gallery, i. i. Pillars supporting 
gallery across the West end. 

The robing-closet was under the pulpit ; as, it is believed, it Tvas, under the 
former arrangement. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



401 



DEATH OF BISHOP CEOES. 

The Rt. Rev. John Croes, D. D., first Bishop of the Diocese 
of New Jersey, departed this life at his residence in New Brans- 
wick, July 30th, 1832, in the 71st year of his age, and the 17th 
of his Episcopate. 



ELECTION OF THE SECOND BISHOP OF NEW JEESEY. 

A '^second adjourned Convention,'^ was held in Christ 
Church, New Brunswick, October 3d, 1832; the Rev. Frederick 
Beasley, D. D., of Trenton, President of the Convention, 
preached, and administered the Lord's Supper. Sixteen clergy- 
men were present, and lay-deputies from twenty- two parishes; 
those from Burlington being John H. Carr and Dr. William S. 
Coxe. In the afternoon the Convention proceeded to ballot for 
a Bishop, with the following result : 



1st 



2d 



3d 



4th 1 5th 



6 th 



For the 



LC 



4'. 



5 1 
2 2 
3 



Eev. John Croes f 5 

" William Creighton, D.D....' 2 

^' AVra. Heathcote DeLancev, 

D. D 1 

" Jackson Kemper, D. D 2 

" Frederick Beasley, D. D 1 

" George Washington Doane 2 

" iSamuel H. Turner, D. D.... 1 1 

^' James Montgomery, D. D... 1 

" John Johns 

" William. Berrian, D. 1) 1 1 

^' James Chapman..... 1 2 ... 

" Clarkson Dunn 1 



LC 
6 5 



LC 
6 



LC 
5 1 



5 1 



LC 
4 1 



o 
1 

9 11 

1 1 
i 1 



12 



The Rev. George Washington Doane, t was then " unani- 
mously declared Bishop-elect of the Diocese of New Jersey." 

J Son of the late Bishop, and bearing his name. 

j George Washington Doane, son of Jonathan Doane, Avas born in Trenton, 
N. J., May 27th, 1799; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1818; 
became a candidate for Holy Orders, in the diocese of New York, in 1819 ; 
■was ordained Deacon, by Bishop Hobart, in 1821, and Priest, by the same 
Prelate, in 1823 ; united\vith Eev. Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Upfold, in organ- 
izing what became St. Luke's Church, N. Y. ; was chosen Professor of Belles- 
Lettres and Oratory, in Washington (now Trinity,) College, Conn,, in 1824; 
became Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, Boston, in 1828 ; and Eector of 
the same, in 1830; whence he was elected to the Episcopate of New Jersey. 

2c 



402 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



MARRIAGE OF THE REV. CHAUXCEY COLTOX. 

1832, Oct. loth. Married the Rev. Chauiicey Coltoii and 
Anne Coxe.^' — Parish .Register. [Xow (1876) the Rev. Hr, 
Colton, of Pennsylvania.] 

FOUR BISHOPS COXSECRATED AT THE SAME TIME AXD PLACE. 

The Rev. John H. Hopkins, D. D., Bishop-elect of Ver- 
mont ; the Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D. D., Bishop-elect of 
Kentucky ; the Rev. Charles P. Mcllvaine, D. D., Bishop-elect 
of Ohio ; and the Rev. George AV. Doaue, Bishop-elect of JSTew 
Jersey ; were respectively consecrated to the office of Bishop, 
in St. Paul's Chapel, in the city of New York, on ^Vednes- 
day, Oct. 31st, 1832, by the Rt. Rev. William AYhite, D. D., 
Presiding Bishop, other Bishops assisting as follows : — in 
the consecration of the Rev. Dr. Hopkins, Bishops Griswold and 
Bowen ; in the consecration of the Rev. Dr. Smith, Bishops 
Browneir and H. U. Onderdonk : in the consecration of the 
Rev. Dr. Mcllvaine, Bishops Griswold and Meade ; and in the 
consecration of the Rev. Mr. Doane, Bishops B. T. Onderdonk 
and Ives. 

BISHOP DOAXe's FIRST ORDIXATIOX. 

''Wednesday, December, 12th, 1832, I took the steam-boat 
early in the morning for Burlington. PreSiched in St. Mary^s 
Church, the visitation sermon, the Rev. Mr. Ward, reading the 
morning service: Admitted Mr. Peter L. Jaques to the holy 
order of deacons : the candidate being presented by the Rev. 
Mr. Ward, — the Rev. Dr. Wharton, the venerable Rector, 
assisting at the Communion; and the Rev. Mr. Morehouse 
being also present. The Rev. Mr. Jacjues f ^as authorized to 
preach, and appointed missionary to the Churches in Warren 
county." — Bishop Doane'' s Episcopal Address, 1833. 

BISHOP DOAXE RESIDEXT AT BURLIXGTOX. 

It was my purpose, with the Divine permission, to have 
effected, before the present meeting of the Convention, another 
complete visitation ; when circumstances of a domestic nature 



t The Eev. Mr. Jaques now (1876) resides at Plainfield, X. J. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



403 



induced the conviction^ that it was best to accomplish previously 
the removal of my family to the diocese. This has been done^ 
and we are for the present resident at Burlington. 

"On the evening of Wednesday, the 17th day of April, 1833, 
I preached in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, and administered 
confirmation to twelve persons. And on the 5th of May, the 
only Sunday that I have been at home since my residence at 
Burlington, I had great pleasure in assisting my reverend 
brother, the venerable Rector, by preaching twice.'' — Episcopal 
Address, 1833. 

DEATH OF THE REV. DR. WHARTON. 

" The Rev. Charles Henry Wharton, D. D., departed this life 
on Tuesday, 23 July, 1833, in the 86th year of his age, the 61st 
of his Ministry, and 36th of his Rectorship of St. Mary's Church, 
Burlington. ' Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of 
his saints.' He was interred, by the side of the Church, f on 
Thursday, 25 July, the Bishop of the diocese performing the 
service, which was attended by the venerable Presiding Bishop, 
Dr. White, and by several of the Clergy, as well as by the 
whole Congregation. A funeral service was preached by Bishop 
Doane, in St. Mary's Church, on Sunday, 4 August, from St. 
Luke XX. 36 — 'Neither mii they die any morey — which, by 
request of the congregation, was printed. — G. W. D." — Parish 
Register. 

EEMINISCEXSES OF DR. WHARTON 's RECTORSHIP. 

Under the signature of "A Parishioner," Mr. John Hulme 
contributed to the Church Journalj in 1863, some reminiscences 
entitled " The Old Parish Church," from which we extract 
the following : — 

"The old Church (as I first remember it,) stood parallel with 
Broad street, with the chancel at the East end, and only one 

t "The Kev. Charles Henry Wharton, D. D., was interred, near the south 
wall of the Church, — in what, when the door was at the side, was the pathway 
by which he entered it. The entrance being now restored to the Avest end, 
and vestry rooms erected back of the pulpit, his remains rest beneath them, 
behind the chancel." — Bp. Doane. 



404 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



door at the West end, opening to the one long narrow aisle, on 
each side of which were the old-fashioned high-backed pews. 
There was a narrow gallery at the West end over the door, in 
the centre of which and projecting from the wall, in the form of 
a half circle, was the organ gallery, enclosing the small, bnt 
sweet toned organ, and on each side of the organ were seats for 
the Sunday School. The open belfry containing the honored old 
bell, bearing the date '1769,' was then on the Yv^est end of the 
Church. 

"Dr. Wharton was required to give only the Sunday morn- 
ing service, but generally the Church was open for evening ser- 
vice on Sunday afternoon. — There was no announcement of the 
services except by the bell ; if the bell did not ring at 8 o'clock 
in the morning of Sunday, there was no service. If it did not 
ring while the people were leaving the Church after morning 
service, there was no evening service. The bell in those days 
could be heard not only over the town, but at the distance of 
four miles in the country. In the Winter the Church was 
warmed by two old fashioned stoves, for wood, one at each end 
of the building, with the pipe protruding through the window. 
At the time of 'the people's bell,' as it was called, twenty min- 
utes past ten, the sexton might be seen hurrying to and from 
the stove to the pews, with little square boxes pierced on the 
top with small holes, which contained hot ashes and coals to 
warm the feet. Then he ascends to the gallery, takes hold of 
the bell-rope, and fixes his eyes upon the Rectory, which is in 
view from the large old-fashioned windows in the gallery. At 
this time the lady organist perches herself upon the high music 
stool, the boy is at the bellows -handle, and all await the Rector. 
And soon the venerable-looking man appeared; short in stature, 
with a firmly knit frame, his small, well-turned head thinly 
covered by his silvered locks, with a pleasant and genial face, 
and a smile which spoke only love to all. He is first seen issu- 
ing from the Rectory, and approaching the Church with his 
peculiar, quick, short step. Just when he is opposite the old 
Academy, the Sunday School children come rushing forth, and 
the sexton begins the last or 'minister's bell.' The old Rector 



IX BUKLTNGTOX. 



405 



has a smile for each of the teachers, puts his hand upon the head 
and blesses all the children within reach, but on the boys and 
girls go, rushing up the one narrow, uncarpeted gallery staircase 
with barely time to be seated and quiet, before the Rector arrives 
at the door. Then the bell ceases, the little organ pours forth 
its sweet notes, and the sexton descends to follow the Rector 
up the one narrow aisle, who goes bowing to every one whose 
eye he can catch. 

" I can remember how the Rector kept Good Friday. On 
that solemn day Pulpit, Reading Desk, and Communion Table, 
stripped of their rich crimson covering, stood forth naked and 
bare; and the .congregation wore black clothing. On Christ- 
mas Eve, in the Rector^s time, the bell would ring forth at ten 
o'clock, and would be rung at intervals all night long, the 
parishioners sending to the vestry room refreshments for the 
ringers. On Christmas Day the Rector had both morning and 
evening service, and as it was the only occasion when the Church 
was open at night throughout the year, it was usually crowded. 
The Church was always dressed for Christmas, and the manner 
of dressing it was this : the sexton having bored holes in the 
tops of the pews about two feet apart, would insert first a branch 
of laurel, then of spruce, and then of box; and the congregation 
might be said to be sitting in, and surrounded by, a miniature 
forest. Wreaths of ground, or running, pine were festooned over 
the hangings of the Pulpit and Reading Desk, and a wreath 
twined around the chancel rails. Then the two beautiful chan- 
deliers of cut glass, with pendant drops, were also dressed with 
wreaths of running pine; they contained a double row of wax 
candles, which shed a rich mellow light on all around. There 
were branches with wax candles on the Pulpit and Reading 
Desk; and in addition to these, in the back of every alternate 
pew, the sexton stuck a little tin candlestick, into which he put 
a tallow candle. 

"The Communion in his time was administered four times in 
a year, and the Ante-Communion Service was only read at 
these times. 

" It was a beautiful, calm July morning, when many persons 



406 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



might be seen standing in groups around the old parish Church. 
Their conversation is in low tones, as they look anxiously and 
sadly towards the Rectory. Close by the side of the Church, 
(the spot now covered by the vestry-room,) there yawns a new- 
made, open grave. The sexton is seen hurrying about here and 
there, and from his hat there streams a long black ^ weeper,^ as 
it was then called. One of the sexton's stalwart sons has 
climbed up into the belfry, and there sits by the dear old bell, 
with eyes intent upon the Rectory. We look into the old 
Church, and the beautiful crimson hangings are displaced, and 
from Pulpit, Desk, aiid Communion Table the deepest black de- 
pends, and the old Rector's pew is lined with black. The red 
curtains in the half circle around the organ-loft are gone, and 
black ones take their place. We leave the Church and move 
on towards the Rectory. In the yard., drawn up before the old 
Academy, are the Sunday-School chiklren, but now their voices 
are subdued and hushed, and the teachers with them are dressed 
in mourning. We look towards the Rectory, and, from an open 
side door, we see persons continually passing in and out with 
weeping eyes. And now the sound of the bell falls upon the 
ear. Its strokes are slow and solemn, for the dear old bell is 
muffled,— and soo« the old Rector is seen approaching. Seen, did 
I say? Alas ! never more to be seen in this world. He is in 
his coffin, borne on the shoulders of his faithful Vestry, while 
some of the diocesan clergy are the pall-bearers. At the head 
of the procession are seen two remarkable men ; one a tall, at- 
tenuated form, with thin, long white locks of hair pushed 
behind the ear, and his once erect form bowed down with the 
weight of more than fourscore years. He comes from an adjoin- 
ing Diocese, and is the great patriarch of the Catholic Church 
in America. The other is the tall, erect, majestic form of the 
new Bishop of the Diocese. The old parish Church is crowded 
to suflPocation. The Bishop of the Diocese read the Service in 
the Church, and the Patriarch, with his feeble voice, committed 
the Body of the Rector to the ground. 

The old Rector was sick some three weeks, the Bishop vis- 
ited him and conversed with him, but the old man dwelt upon 



IX BURLINGTOX. 



407 



just this theme : ^ I have no merits ; I have no merits of my 
own. God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our 
Lord Jesus Christ."^ i 

A jurist's TESTIMO^'Y of DE. VrPIARTOX. 

The Hon. Horace Binney^ writing of Dr. Wharton, from 
Philadelphia, Oct. 14, 1856, says :— 

I saw him frequently in the latter part of his life, and heard 
him regularly during my summer residence at Burlington ; but 
when I first knew him, he was seventy years of age, his health 
was feeble, and though I met him occasionally in the society of 
the place, and in my own house, I had no opportunity of know- 
ing him to the extent or in the way which alone would have 
given me the means of writing a characteristic account of him. 

" I had a most agreeable impression ^bf his eminently well- 
bred manners and carriage — of the quiet tone of his conversation, 
and of his occasional flashes of gentle humour, with the least 
possible infusion of satire in them to give them the more point. 
I thought I discerned in him at all times the influence of the 
foreign College in which he had received his religious education, 
in toning down his manners and conversation so as to obliterate 
from them every thing abrupt, or angular, or strikingly salient. 

" His height in mid-age must have been, I think, five feet, 
five or six inches. In the advanced age at which I knew him, 
his head drooped a little, and his person inclined in the same di- 
rection for some distance below the shoulders. He did not 
stoop, but he was a little bent. His form was slight and vale- 
tudinary, but without emaciation. His eyes were, I think, 
pale-blue or gray, his complexion fair, and the anterior part of 
his rather fine head was bald. He wore powder, and his dress 
was at all times scrupulously neat and appropriate. I do not 
recollect a more gentlemanly figure, or a more benevolent and 
trustworthy countenance. As he used to pass up the aisle, the 
only aisle, of the old Church, on Sundays, to the chancel at the 
Eastern end, in his black gown, powdered hair, and hat in hand, 
inclining with . a gentle -bow to the one side and the other, towards 



408 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



the parishioners whom he saw in the pews to receive him, no- 
thing conld be more gracious and paternal. 

" The services were read well — not with a strong voice, bat 
distinctly, nor with much emphasis on any part, but without 
monotony. His manner of reading, whether of the services or 
the sermon, was not impressive, but it was in a pure tone, that 
perfectly conveyed and seconded the meaning of what he read. 
In repeating the prayers, he was devout and self-collected, but not 
impassioned. All his sermons were good and instructive, but 
not frequently drawn from the depths of his learning, either 
theological or moral. Parts of them were beautifully written ; 
but it could not be discerned, from his mode of reading them, 
that he thought one part better than another. All parts of 
them tendered to promote sound doctrine, pure morality, and a 
kindly Christian temper. I never wearied of his discourses^ 
which, though not long, were never short. It was pleasant to 
listen to truths of the kind he taught, which came recommended 
by simplicity and sincerity of manner, and were corroborated by 
such purity of example in the life of the teacher. 

" There was no Presbyterian church in Burlington until after 
Dr. Wharton's death. That is my impression. In his time 
Presbyterians mingled with Churchmen in that simple and 
primitive temple. Dr. Boudiuot's family, for instance, con- 
stantly worshipped there ; and the Clerk who announced the 
Psalms and Hymns from a gallery at the Western end of the 
Church, and led the music with a rather wiry and dissonant 
voice, was a worthy Scotch Presbyterian, named Aikman, a 
cabinet-maker in the town. We all liked Aikman for his 
directness and truth. He was as steady in his temper and 
purpose as a Covenanter. One Sunday, when Aikman, from 
the West gallery, gave out the Psalm before the Ante-Commu- 
nion service. Dr. Wharton rose in the chancel, and said in his 
natural, quiet tone, — ^ Mr. Aikman, that is not the Psalm I gave 
to you.' ^ Yes, but it is. Doctor.' — ^ No, it is not.' — ^ Yes, but it 
is. Dr. Wharton. It is right. I have it here in your own 
hand write,' — holding up a paper. — ' Oh, well, have it your own 
way, have it your own way. Sing any thing.' — You may sup- 
pose the smiles." — Annals of American Ejo. Pulpit, pp. 340-341. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



409 



THE CHARACTER OF REV. DR. WHARTOX. 

" It was not my good fortune/^ says Bishop Doaiie, " to 
know Dr. Wharton until w^ithin a short time previous to his 
death. I had indeed known hirn^ by reputation, as a pillar and 
ornament of the Church — adorning with his life the doctrines 
which with his voice he proclaimed, and with his pen had so 
ably advocated. I knew him as among the first in scholarship of 
the Clergy of America, a sound and thoroughly accomplished 
divine, a practised aad successful controversialist, a faithful par- 
,ish priest, a patriarch of the Diocese in which he lived ; but I 
had never seen him. When, therefore, in the ])rovidence of God^ 
I was called in the autumn of 1832 to the highest office in this 
Diocese, among the thoughts which were the first to follow the 
appalling conviction of its responsibilities, w^as that of the rela- 
tionship which its acceptance would create between myself and 
him ; and I confess that in the reflection I was deeply humbled. 
But scarcely had the evidence of my appointment reached me^ 
when a letter came from him sa kind, so encouraging, so expres- 
sive of his hearty accjuiescence in the appointment, and his 
hearty desire for its consummation, as to contribute most mate- 
rially to the determination of my assent. I saw him first on the 
occasion of my first Visitation here ; and though for a few hours 
only, there was in his deportment a tender so free and generous 
of his approbation and confidence, a simplicity so perfectly trans- 
lucent, and a mixture — so much in keeping with his venerable 
aspect, his - profound acquirements, and his long experience— 
of the affection expressed for a son, and the deference designed 
for an official superior, as embarrassed and perplexed me, while 
it wholly won my heart. Our subsequent intercourse was of 
the most endearing character, and it left nothing for me to 
lament, but that, as Providence designed it to be so brief, official 
absence should have diminished its golden opportunities. I 
looked forward with eagerness to the conclusion of my public 
engagements, that I might sit down with him in his delightful, 
quiet home, and gather wisdom from his words, while I learned 
piety from his example. But the Disposer of all things did not 
gratify my hopes. His health had been for some time failing 



410 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



when I saw him first, and though serene and cheerful, and long, 
I trusted, to be preserved to us in a green old age, it was but too 
apparent that the energies of his constitution were impaired, and 
that the elastic tone and vigour of his spirit were unbent. In 
the conversations which I had with him, (which, when at home, 
were daily,) he displayed the deepest interest in the extension of 
the Church of Christ, and the soundest judgment in his views 
and estimate of the means by which it was to be promoted. 
Especially did the General Theological Seminary and the Gen- 
eral Missionary Society occupy his thoughts, and it was his . 
desire and determination to accompany me to the annual meet- 
ing of the Board of Directors of the last named institution, in 
May preceding his death. Indisposition, however, prevented. 
And I had quite given up the long cherished hope of enjoying 
his presence and counsel at the then approaching Convention of 
the Diocese. On the morning of the day of the meeting, how- 
ever, to my great joy he arrived in Camden. He took a warm 
and active part in the proceedings, gave to the measures pro- 
posed the most manly and vigorous support, engaged earnestly 
in the debates, and appeared in body and mind, in voice and 
bearing, like one a full half century his junior. It was his last 
exertion. From that time, he did not appear in public, and in- 
deed scarcely left his house. His disease became gradually 
seated. The ability to struggle with it was gradually diminished. 
He reluctantly gave up, for even a single Lord's day, the accus- 
tomed duty. He retreated reluctantly to his chamber and to 
his bed. The best resources of the healing art were applied 
with the utmost assiduity and skill. The constancy and tender- 
ness of conjugal devotion, and the vigilance and care of relations 
and friends, supplied whatever love could prompt and earth 
afford for his recovery and relief. But it was vain. Ex- 
hausted nature could not rally. And gently declining day by 
day, after a few brief struggles, more painful probably to the 
faithful hearts that watched beside him, than to himself, — he 
fell sweetly asleep, even as an infant sinks to rest upon his 
mother's bosom, on Tuesday morning, July 23, 1833 ; having 
entered nearly two months upon his eighty-sixth year, and hav- 



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411 



ing been for more than sixty-one years a minister of Christ — 
the senior Presbyter — if I mistake not — of the American Protes- 
tant Episcopal Chnrch. 

Throughout his sickness, when not absent from home on 
official duty, it was my privilege to see him daily ; and a death- 
bed so serene, so tranquil, so triumphant, I have never witnessed. 
It seemed, from the first day to the last, so far as the issue of 
life was concerned, as if nature had been wholly set aside by 
grace. The single sentiment which animated and pervaded all 
he said, was still, — ' Thy will be done.' He was the humblest 
and most self-abased of Christians. In his long life, there was 
nothing, he said, on which, for a single moment, he could rest. 
He had endeavored to be useful with his ' poor abilities,' as he 
always termed them, but he had done nothing. AVhat he looked 
back to with the nearest approach to satisfaction, was his desire 
and effort to promote peace and harmony among men. In this 
respect he hoped, if he had done little good, he had at least pre- 
vented some harm. But the theme in which he gloried was the 
Cross. That was the subject of his thoughts, and the burden of his 
conversation. He clung naked to it with a child's simplicity 
and helplessness. ' I have been thinking,' he said to me one day, 
' of the wonders of redeeming love. And the more I dwell upon 
it, the more I am filled with admiration, that the Almighty 
God, the Maker of everything in heaven and earth, my ]\Iaker 
and my Judge, should stoop to earth, and take vile flesh, and 
bare his bosom, and pour out his blood — for me ! ' ^ Oh, my 
dear friend,' he would often say to me, ^' the Cross, the Cross, 
is all ! " What should we be without the Cross? The Lamb 
of God — He taketh away the sin of the world. The blood of 
Jesus Christ — that cleanseth from all sin ! ' Such were the 
triumphant testimonies to the truth and power of our religion, 
which he rendered while he was getting ready to put off the 
-earthly house of this tabernacle. 

"Dr. AYharton was twice married — the second time to Ann, 
daughter of Chief Justice Kinsey of this State, who survived 
him. He had no children. 

"As the limits you have prescribed to me will not allow me 
to go into any minute analysis of Dr. Wharton's character, I 



412 HISTORY OF THE CHUKCH 



will dismiss the subject by just hinting at a few of his more 
prominent traits. And I may mention, first of all, his singular 
purity. He had neither guile nor the suspicion of it. Long 
as he had lived in the world, he seemed to have suffered little 
from its contact. There was a delicacy of sentiment and feeling 
in him, which not only bespoke his own purity of heart, but 
kept the atmosphere about him pure. And it was this that gave 
to all his conversation and conduct an air of the most engaging 
simpUcity. In speech and manner he was artless as a child. 
You read his heart at once. And if, in turn, you did not lay 
your own open, you gave him all the advantage he wished or 
would avail himself of, — the advantage of sincerity and candour. 
He was distinguished also for his humility. With the best edu- 
cation that Europe could afford ; as a divine, second perhaps to 
none in America ; as a controversialist, unanswered and un- 
answerable ; he was not only unconscious of his distinction, but 
he would not be made conscious of it. He was also one of the 
most disinterested of men. The principle of self seemed in him, 
as nearly as in humanity it can, to have been absorbed and lost. 
He lived for the Church first, and then for those whom he 
loved. And he was full of kindness and charity. He desired 
good to all men, and, therefore, he ever sought to do them good. 
He was the kindest husband, and the most devoted friend. And 
his crowning and completing grace was his earnest and consist- 
ent j^ie/^?/. The faith by which he triumphed in his death, had 
made him conqueror through life. The Cross in which he 
gloried had crucified the world unto him, and him unto the 
world. His piety did not burn with fitful and uncertain 
flame, but with a pure, sustained, and steady lustre. The 
aliment on which it fed was the sincere word of God. It was 
enkindled in him by the Holy Spirit. He nourished and cher- 
ished it by daily intercourse with Heaven. 

"As a Preacher of the Gospel, I never had an opportunity to 
know Dr. Wharton. His sermons which I have read are of a 
chastened and persuasive style of oratory, well arranged, written 
evidently from the heart, and in a diction which is like crystal 
for its purity and clearness. Everywhere, and on all occasions, he 
preached Christ and Him crucified. 



IN BURLINGTOX. 



413 



■^'I ^Yill only add that he was a Churchman in heart and in 
•soul ; while yet, in the exercise of his truly Catholic spirit, he 
regarded all who name the name of Chirst with affectionate 
interest. It was his deep and strong conviction, again and 
again expressed, that the entire Church was to be inviolately 
preserved ; and that the strictest adherence to all its provisions 
and regulations was the surest path not only of truth and duty, 
but of charity and peace.'^ — Annals of American Ep. Pulpit, j)p- 
337-340. 

EXTEACTS FEOM THE WILL OF THE EEV. DE. WHAETO>\ 

" Tried. — I direct ihat after ray dear Wife shall have se- 
lected from my Library, such books as she may particularly 
desire for her own absolute use. All the residue of my Books 
shall go to the Minister, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of 
Saint Mary's Church, Burlington City — to be by them pre- 
served for the use of the rectors of said Church in succession. 

FoUETH. — All the rest and residue of my estate, real and 
personal, whatever, and wherever, I give and devise to the 
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the Diocese of 
New Jersey — so being at my death, and to his successors as 
Bishops as aforesaid — Ix teust — nevertheless to permit my 
said dear Wife to take the rents and annual income of said resi- 
due for her life, in case she survive me — But in case she die 
before me, or if otherwise, at her death in further trust, to pay 
•over One thousand dollars, to the Treasurer of the Domestic and 
Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
of the United States of America, for the use of the said Mis- 
sionary Society — And finally in trust to pay over and assign all 
the residue of the estate, and monies, or other property, what- 
ever, herein, given and bequeathed to him in trust to the Min- 
ister, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Saint Mary's Church 
Burlington City aforesaid, or to any officer appointed by the 
legal authorities of said Church, to receive the same — to be by 
them invested in such fund or security, as they may approve, 



414 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



and the interest thereof to be applied annually to increase the 
Salary of the rectors of said Saint Mary's Church — 

" FiFTPi.— I nominate the Bishop of the Protestant Episco- 
pal Church for the Diocese of JN^ew Jersey & so being at my 
death, Executor and Trustee under this my will — And in case 
said Bishop, so being at my death, shall die before the final com- 
pletion of all the objects and the complete execution of all the 
trusts, mentioned and created herein, It is my Avill that his 
successors as Bishops as aforesaid, shall succeed him as trustees 
under this my will, and have full power to complete and exe- 
cute all the trusts then incomplete and unexecuted And that 
the said powers and trusts given as aforesaid to the Bishop of 
said Diocese, so being at my death, and to his successors, shall 
not survive to his or their heirs, or Executors— 

Sixth. — Before my said Executor and Trustee shall pro- 
ceed to execute the trusts — or to pay the pecuniary legacies, 
herein created and mentioned, he shall first pay all my just 
debts. 

^' Charles H. Wharton, [l. s.] 

" Signed sealed and Published by the testator on the 28th of 
February 1833, in the presence of Jane P. Folwell, William 
Hargest, H. Mcllvaine." 

Proved, the 5th of August, A. d., 1833, at Mt. Holly'' 

before Charles Kinsey, Surrogate." 

^'George W. Doane, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church for the Diocese of New Jersey and being Bishop as 
aforesaid at the death of Charles H. Wharton, the Testator 
within named and Executor in the annexed Testament named 
being duly sworn did depose and say that the Within Instru- 
ments contain the true last Will and Testament of Charles H. 
Wharton the testator therein named so far as he knows and as 
he verily believes ; that he will well and truly perform the 
same by paying first the debts of the said deceased, and then the 
Legacies in the said Testament specified, so far as the goods, 
chattels and credits of the said deceased can thereunto Extend ; 
and that he will make an Exhibit or cause to be made and Ex- 
hibited into the Prerogative Office at Trenton, a true and per- 
fect Inventory of all and singular, the goods, chattels, and 
credits of the said deceased that have or shall come to his 



IN BURLINGTON. 



41a 



knowledge or possession, or to the possession of any other per- 
son or persons for his nse, and render a just and true account: 
when thereunto lawfully required — 



" Sworn at Mt Holly 
5th August, A. D., 1833 
before me 

Charles Kinsey 

Surrogate." 
— Surrogate's Office, Mt. Holly, N. J. 



G. W. DOANE. 



THE EFFECTS OF THE LATE REV. DR. WHARTOX. 

A true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods 
and chattels rights and credits of the Reverend Charles H. 
Wharton, D. J)., late of the City and County of Burlington in 
the State of New Jersey deceased made the Seventeenth day of 
September A. D. 1833 and the Second day of August A. d. 1837 — ■ 

" Wearing Apparrel §100.00 

"Books 280.00 

" Bank & other Stocks 13.581.00 

" Household goods &c 1.009.00 

$14,970.00 

"Appraised by us the dates above mentioned, 

"Burr Woolman, Thomas B. Woolman." 

—Ibid. 

inscription for a mural MONUMENT TO DR. WHARTON. 

The following was written by Bishop Doane for a mural 
tablet to Dr. Wharton ; but the tablet was never erected, f and 
the words designed for it are here inserted for preservation : 

_ fin the sacrarium of tlie new St. Mary's Clmrcli, however, on the South 
side, in the stained glass window, is the following : 



IN MEMORIAM Rev. 

Hujus Ecdeske Rector is, A. D. MD 



Caroli Henrici Wharton, D. 
CCXCVI A. D. MDCCCXXXIII 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



" Beliind the Cliancel 
rests the mortal part of . 

CHARLES HENRY WHARTOX, I). 1)., 

who died July 23, 1833, 
aged 86 years : 
-during 37 of which he was Rector of this Cliurcl:. 
A finished scholar, 
an elegant writer, 
a sound divine, 
a faithful preacher of the Cross : 
in peace and meekness, purity and charity, 
in childlike simplicity, and unaffected piety, 
a daily example of the lessons which he taught ; 
■while he lived, the faithful servant of this Church, 
and, at his death, its generous benefactor: 
such was he 
Avliose name this stone commemorates, 
and whose virtues 
are embalmed in the affections of his people." 

BISHOP DOA^'E BECOMES EECTOE OF ST. MARY's CHURCH. 

" 1833. The Vestry of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, at a 
special meeting, held 3 August, unanimously invited the Right' 
Reverend George Washington Doane, D. D., to accept the 
vacant Rectorsliip. — 1 October, the invitation was accepted. 
G. ^y. D:'— Parish Register. 

THE CIRCUMSTAXCES ATTENDING THIS DECISION. 

"Since the last Convention, my residence at Burlington, 
which was then temporary, and without parochial charge, has 
assumed a different character. Being, of coarse, from my dis- 
tant residence, unacquainted with the local peculiarities of the 
diocese, I determined at my consecration, not to decide on my 
place of abode among you, until I had become satisfied by per- 
sonal investigation, and the careful comparison of individual 
opinions, as to what seemed the position most favourable to the 



IN BURLINGTON. 



417 



discharge of my official duties, and the advancement of the 
interests of the Church. I did not doubt, moreover, that in the 
lapse of time, the course of Providence would be developed with 
sufficient clearness. Soon after I had gone into temporary resi- 
dence at Burlington, (to w^hich I was chiefly induced by local 
and personal considerations,) I received from the Rector, Ward- 
ens, and Yestry of Trinity Church, Newark, an invitation of 
the most gratifying character, to establish myself in that place ; 
accompanied with an offer from the Congregation, of so gener- 
ous a nature as to leave no doubt on my mind, that the desire 
for my removal there was not only universal, but most sincere 
and hearty. To an expression from such a source, so earnest in 
its terms, and so liberally enforced, I felt it my duty to respond 
in the affirmative, the more especially as I should thus be left 
free from parochial responsibility ; when the death of Rev. Dr. 
Wharton, and the peculiar circumstances of the parish of St. 
Mary^s, Burlington, presented a conflicting duty. After mature 
deliberation, with inquiry of those whose judgments in the matter 
were best instructed, it seemed incumbent on me to assume the 
charge of the interesting parish thus vacated ; which I did, — 
first for six months, and, afterwards as its Rector. In thus 
yielding to a strong sense of ecclesiastical duty, I am happy in 
knowing that my munificent friends at Newark, though disap- 
pointed, have not been displeased. The same liberal spirit 
which devised such liberal things to induce my residence among 
them, enabled and disposed them cheerfully to yield their own 
preference, to what seemed to be essential to the welfare of a 
sister parish. May brotherly love so continue, and ever increase 
amongst us! It is due to my office, to my own judgment, 
and to the best interests of the Church, to say, that it is 
not well that the Bishop of any diocese should be responsible 
for the entire pastoral charge of a congregation. When this is 
the case, either the parochial or the diocesan interest must suffer. 
Cases may occur, where the Rectorship of a parish seems proper, 
or indeed necessary, as the means of support, to be united to the 
Episcopate ; but provision should then be made, not merely to 
relieve the Bishop from such portion of the duty of preaching, 

2d 



418 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



as may enable him to accomplish his visitations, bat for the 
discharge, under his direction, of those daily pastoral offices, 
without the faithful, constant performance of which, Christ's 
sheep can never be duly fed. An economical and judicious 
arrangement for this purpose has always seemed to me, the 
appointment of a clergyman, to reside in the Bishop's parish, to 
supply the pulpit in his absence, to take the immediate charge 
of the Sunday School, and other interests of the parish, and to 
perform occasional Missionary duty. The provision for the 
support of such a Clergyman, as Missionary assistant to the 
Bishop, might properly be chargeable on the Missionary fund 
of the diocese. I commend the subject to the consideration of 
the Convention. The extensive plan of visitation which I pro- 
pose, cannot well be carried into effect unless there be some such 
provision." — Episcopal Address, 1834. 

"the remains of the rev. dr. WHARTON." 

Under this title, Bishop Doane in 1833-4, published two 
volumes, containing a Memoir, the Funeral Sermon, twenty 
sermons, selected papers, and controversial tracts, of the Rev. 
Dr. Wharton ; " of which the leading religious journals of Great 
Britain spoke with distinguished favor." 

THE REMINISCENCES OF A FORMER RESIDENT. 

The following, written in 1833, by one, who in his school-boy 
days, almost forty years before, had engaged in rural sports about 
the place, is a vivid portrayal of Burlington, in 1797 : 

Ah, old acquaintance ! there thon art — 
I hail thee with a heating heart, 
I'll sing of thee, before we part, - 

Green bank of Burlington. 

May I a passing tribute pay, 

Where many a happy school-boy day,, 

In years forever passed away, 

I played upon thy bank. 

t 

At early morn I thought thee fair, 
At noon thou hadst the freshest air, 
Thy evenings only could compare i 
With Eden's lovely bowers. 



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419 



And most enchanting was the grace 
That marked the ladies of the place, 
in walk, in form, in mind, in face, 
Like mother Eve of old. 

Your melons were for flavor rare. 
Your cream and strawberries sweetest were, 
Your luscious peach, and juicy pear. 
The rich and poor partook. 

By pebbly shore and lofty tree. 
Our good old bathing place I see, 
Where school-boys all with loudest glee, 
To dive and swim repair'd. 

Lightly that batteau seems to glide, 
In such a one I loved to ride, 
With helm in hand, her course to guide, 
While briskly blew the breeze. 

'Twas sweet to leave the tiresome book, 
A dozen silvery fish to hook. 
Then take them home to plague the cook 
To clean and fry them all. 

My tale of pleasure is begun, 
We also sometimes got a gun. 
Through weed and mire ail day to run, 
To shoot a bird or two. 

Sometimes we hired a boat to speed 
On a duckling trip where wild ducks feed. 
But less ducks than duckings we got indeed, 
On Neshamony's marshy flats. 

How spreads this river like a bay, 
I've skated on it many a day. 
While Bristol boys have had a fray, f 
And feats of skating show'd. 

Keenly the crowded wharf I view, 
And cannot see one face I knew. 
But good Ben Shepherd's ever true, X 
At every varying tide. 

I could have sprung from off the deck, 
To give his hand a hearty shake, 
For him and for his city's sake. 

My dear old Burlington. 

Sadly my memory loves to trace 
The kindly smile of many a face 
Gather'd ere this in the resting place. 
With those of ages past. 



f Snow-balling battle. 

X Hotel keeper and ferryman. 



420 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



The lapse of almost forty years, 
Has ended all their joys and cares, 
We hope they are the happy heirs, 
Of immortality. 

No steamboat then in stately pride, 
Made rapid way 'gainst wind and tide — 
A shallop small its place supplied. 

The goodly sloop May-Flower, f 

Thy sister cities have the fame, 

Of battles fought, and warlike name — 

Thy ancient records lay no claim 

To bloody tales like these. 

Thy precincts show no battle-field 
Where haughty foes were forced to yield, 
And many a brave one's fate was sealed 
In death upon the plain. 

Ere Trenton saw the deadly fray, 
Thou wast not idle in thy way ; 
Bold spirits suited to their day, 

Withstood a tyrant's rule. 

In thy Town Hall these patriots sate, 
And there resolved to share the fate 
Of every suffering sister State — 

With them to stand or fall. 

I cannot see Saint Mary's fane ; 
It often gave me' heartfelt pain 
To think how oft I've heard in vain 
Good Dr. Wharton preach. 

Ivleekly as one who plainly saw 
Himself condemn' d beneath the law, 
He sought by love, not fear, to draw 
His hearers to the Lord. 

St. Mary's lifts no towering spire, 
For passing travellers to admire, 
Fit emblem of the holy sire 

Who filled her desk so long. 

I hear my fellow travellers say 
There is a locomotive's way 
Where school-boys used to fight and play, 
In Dr. Staughton's time. | 

And woodman's axe with sturdy stroke 
Has long since fell'd the lofty oak. 
Where my poor neck I nearly broke, 
To gain a squirrel's nest. 



t This packet belonged to Captain Myers, a Avell-known skipper. 
X Principal of the Academy. 



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421 



St. Mary's has a pastor new, f 

Young, and New Jersey's bishop too — 

He needs must stand in public view — 

May God save him from pride. 

May he a shepherd's duty know, 
To lead his flock where fountains flow, 
And where perennial pastures grow, 
Beneath the sacred Cross. 

This steamer goes as if it flew. 
The city fades before my view^ — 
AVe turn, I bid a long adieu 

To thee, sweet Burlington. 

BISHOP DOAXE's first EEPOET AS KECTOR. 

May 28th, 1834. Bishop Doane's first report^ as Eeetor of 
St. Mary's Church, says : — 

" The Rector has not been long enough in charge of the Par- 
ish to give any thing more than the mere statistics. The man- 
ner in which the Offerings of the Church have been collected, 
is stated in the Pastoral Letter, in the Appendix. There were 
no subscriptions larger than twenty-five cents per week, and of 
these but five. Many of them were less than five cents, and 
several but one cent per week. A small amount remiiius i.incol- 
lected, which will go into the account of the next year. In 
another Keport, greater fullness may be expected. — Twenty-five 
copies of the Children's Magazine are taken. The Rector is 
always present in the Sunday School, when not absent on Epis- 
copal duty. In the absence of the Rector, the parish has been 
much benefited by the gratuitous and very acceptable services 
of the Rev. Dr. Williams.^' J 

THE LIBRARY OF ST. MARY's CHURCH. 

" The library of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, lately in- 
creased by the bequest of part of Dr. Wharton's books, is about 
to be brought into more general use. The remark is sometimes 
made, that parish libraries are little used, and soon dispersed; 
and the fact is adduced that, of the excellent collections with 
which all our parishes, by the wise provision of the venerable 
society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts, were 
furnished, are now, with scarcely an exception, squandered. 

t Bishop Doane. J The Eev. Charles Williams, D. D. 



422 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Of this luifortuoate result, the vicissitudes of the times ought 
always to be given in explanation ; and it should also be remem- 
bered, that the good seed, though scattered, is not lost, but pro- 
ducing doubtless in many quarters, its desirable fruits."^ — Ej)is- 
Gopal Address, 1834. 

A HELIGIOUS SERVICE FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY. 

"There is a custom common in some parts of our country, 
and I believe increasing, of Gelehrating with religious services, the 
the anniversary of the Declaration of the National Independence. 
I highly approve of it. Without any regard to the suspicion of 
desiring an establishment of religion, I venture to say, that 
there is, in our political and civil institutions, too little refer- 
ence to Him who is the only source and security of whatever is 
good in them. I enter into no discussion of the causes of this 
deficiency, or of the apologies for it. The fault exists and is to 
be regretted. What is still more to the purpose, it is, so far as 
may be, to be obviated. ' Righteousness exalteth a nation, but 
sin is the reproach,^ and will be the destruction, ^of any people.' 

'^In the 'Proposed Book,' so called, there is ^ a Form of 
Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for the inestimable 
blessings of religious and civil liberty, to be used yearly on the 
Fourth day of July.' I know not why it was omitted in the 
final revision. It is a service well adapted for the occasion ; 
and, with suitable alterations, will be set forth for use in this 
diocese." — Episcopal Address, / '■ , 

A THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL RECOMMENDED. 

" There is but one subject more, of a general character, to 
which I shall at present venture to invite your attention. And 
I do so, because from its great importance, it deserves to be pre- 
sented as early as may be to your notice, that you may be the 
sooner prepared to act in regard to it with efficiency. I recom- 
mend, brethren of the Clergy and of the Laity, for your most 
serious consideration, the establishment, under the auspices of 
the Church, of a School or Seminary, of a high order, at which 
there may be provision, wholly, or in part, gratuitous, for the 
preparatory education of young men designing to enter on a 



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423 



course of Theological study. The diocese of Xew Jersey pre- 
sents peculiar facilities for institutions of learning. An Epis- 
copal School that deserved patronage — and I should be sorry to 
see one that did not — would be liberally sustained by scholars 
from the vicinity, and from abroad. A portion of the profits 
should be set aside as a foundation for the purposes above named ; 
and individual bounty would, I am very confident, come liber- 
ally in aid of the enterprise. AYe should thus have the means 
of educatino^ our o\yn sons under circumstances most favourable 
to their character and principles. The number of candidates 
for orders would be increased by the facilities of education. 
The standard of learning among us would be elevated. Better 
than all, tlie means of instruction would be presented, as they 
■ought ever to be, under the sanctifying influences of religion. 
I am sanguine in the opinion, that a judicious plan for this pur- 
pose would be most cordially encouraged. I should most cheer- 
fully devote myself, as a duty of the highest moment^ to its estab- 
lishment and furtherance. Having done what our hands find 
to do in a work so charitable and holy, we may safely leave it to 
the blessing of Almighty God." — Episcopal Address, 1834. 

DEATH OF THE W^IDOW OF EEV. DE. WHAETOX. 

1834 June 21. Buried Mrs. Anne ^yharton, (by Eev. Mr. 

Moorehouse)." — Parish Begister. 

A handsome mural tablet erected in the East wall, on the 

North side, of the old St. Mary's Church, bears this inscription : 

" This Tablet 
The Memorial of 
A Sister's undying love 
is Erected to the memory 
of AxxE 
Eelict of the 
Eevd. Dr. Wharton, 
late Eector of this Church, 

■who departed this life .. 
on the 20th of June, 
A. D. 1834. 

Let this marble speak her worth 
Avhen the many sorrowing hearts 
which her charity has gladdened 
have ceased to beat, 
and the weeping eyes, 
from which her sympathy has wiped the tears, • 
are closed in death." 



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CHURCH EXLAEGEMEXT DETERMI^s'ED UPON. 

A resolution was adopted by the Vestry, September 3d, 1834, 
in these words : 

'^Resolvedj That Christian Larzelere, William McMurtrie, 
(Wardens,) Jacob Shedaker, Daniel Hancock, and James Hunter 
Sterling, with the Rt. Rev. Rector, be a Committee to inquire 
and report at a future meeting of the Vestry what alterations 
can be made in the Church, whereby its revenues may be aug- 
mented, its appearance improved, its convenience increased, and 
its usefulness extended.'^ 

The plan reported by the Committee, was, on the 26th of Sep- 
tember, approved and accepted by the Vestry ; and John Lar- 
zelere, Edward Rogers, and William McMurtrie appointed the 
Building Committee. A contract vras entered into with Mr. 
Isaac Holden, Architect of Philadelphia, for the execution of 
the plan designed by him, reported by the Committee, and 
approved by the Vestry. On the 6th day of October the work 
was commenced — and on Tuesday, December 23d, the building 
was consecrated to the worship of Almighty God. 

ARCHITECTURAL DESCRIPTIOX OF THE CHURCH. 
[From the Missionary.] 

'^The plan of the Church is that of a Latin Cross, the head 
being towards the south east. The interior dimensions of the 
nave and choir, are eighty feet, six inches, by thirty feet ; and 
of the transept, thirty feet by fifty-nine feet, six inches. The 
whole affords sixtij pews, calculated for eight persons each, t 
It is built of bricks, and is to be rough-cast, in imitation of free 
stone or granite. 

" The south east, or principal facade presents (as nearly as 
circumstances would permit,) a composition in accordance with 
the Grecian style of architecture, exhibiting a centre building 
and wings, — the centre having a pediment, in the tympanum of 
which is inserted a circular window, surrounded by an Isthmian 
wreath, composed of the Lotus leaf On the apex of the pedi- 

f The former number was thirty-four. 



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425 



ment is intended to be fixed an acroterium, bearing an enriched 
Greek Cross ; behind which, and on a square stylobate, rises an 
octagonal bell-tower, — the apertures of which are filled in with 
Inffer boarding, the whole surmounted by a gilt ball and vane. 
The design of the tower is derived from that built at Athens by 
Andronicus Cyrrhites, commonly called the Tower of the Winds. 

" The door or entrance, is decorated by a Doric entablature 
and antse, over which is a raised tablet. The windows are fin- 
ished, with plain architraves, over which is a sunk pannel. The 
principal entrance into the Church is situated at the south w^est 
side, (under a porch,) on the inside of which is a vestibule, 
opening into the transept. At the opposite extremity, and on 
the wall of the chevet, is intended to be placed a mural monument, 
to the memory of the late Rev. Charles H. Wharton, D. D., 
who was for thirty-seven years Rector of this Church. On the 
south east side, occupying the head of the Cross, is placed the 
chancel and choir, the architectural decorations of which are 
arranged from approved Grecian models. The pulpit is of a 
semi-octagonal form. Immediately in front of which, and 
attached thereto, stands the reading desk, — and on the sides, 
enclosing the stairs, are placed, panneled pedestals upon wdiich 
are fixed carved scrolls. On each side of the pulpit are large 
tablets, containing the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed, and 
the Ten Commandments. The whole is enclosed by an enriched 
railing and mahogany capping. Behind the chancel, and under 
the choir, is situated the Rector's robing room, the vestry room, 
and the parish library. 

" On the north west side is also an entrance and windows, 
similar in exterior decoration to those on the south east front, 
and having on the inside a vestibule opening into the nave of 
the Church. Under the nave, is constructed a furnace, for sup- 
plying the Church with heated air." 

COXSECEATIOX OF THE CHUECH. 

On Tuesday, December 23, 1834, St. Mary's Church was 
consecrated to the public worship of Almighty God, by the 
Right Reverend Bishop Doane. The request of the Yestry^ 



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being presented to the Bishop, by Christian Larzelere, Esq., 
Senior Warden, was read by the Rev. Hewlett R. Peters, 
rassistant to the Rector, in the following terms : 

To the Rt. Rev. George W. Doaiie, D. D., Bishop of the Diocese 
of New Jersey. 

^'The memorials of the Wardens and Vestry of St. Mary's 
•Church respectfully sheweth, that the house in which their 
fathers worshipped, and in which God's name has been honored, 
and the gospel of his Son proclaimed, for one huncb^ed and 
thirty years, having been erected for a long period previous to 
the establishment of the Episcopacy in the United States of 
America, was never consecrated to the worship of Almighty 
God, according to the usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church; 
and having now, at great expense, extended, repaired, and im- 
proved, and, in a manner, rebuilt it, for the better accommoda- 
tion of the congregation worshipping there, they present this 
their request to the Right Reverend the Bishop of the Diocese 
of yew Jersey, desiring him, at his earliest convenience, to set 
apart and consecrate the same to the service* and worship of 
Almighty God, according to the order of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church in the United States of America. 

Signed, by order of the A^estry, 

" Wm. M'Muetrie, 1 tt- 7 

cc T ( yyarclens. 

Christian Larzelere, J 

'^^ Burlington, 7th December, 1834." 

The sentence of consecration was then read by the Rev. 
George Y. Morehouse, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Mount 
Holly, and is as follows : 

" The ancient edifice of St. Mary's Church in the City of Bur- 
lington, wdiich was erected, and had been occupied, eighty years 
before the introduction of the Episcopate into the United States 
of America, having never received consecration; and the Yestry 
of that parish, acting by the Wardens, having set forth in their 
memorial addressed to me, that it has lately been enlarged and 
much improved, and requested me to consecrate it in the usual 
form : 

Be it known^, that on this 23d day of December, in the year 



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427 



of our Lord, 1834, with the rites and solemnities prescribed, 
I have consecrated and set apart the said house of worship, sep- 
arating it henceforth from all unhallowed, ordinary and common 
uses, and dedicating it to the service of Almighty God, for 
reading his holy word, for celebrating his holy sacraments, for 
offering to his glorious majesty the sacrifices of prayer and 
thanksgiving, for blessing the people in his name, and for the 
performance of all other holy offices, through Jesus Christ our 
blessed Lord and Saviour, and according to the rites and wor- 
ship of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States 
of America. 

" In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
seal, at Burlington, this 23d day of December, in the year of 
our Lord, 1834, and in the third year of my consecration. 

" George W. Doane, Bishop 

" of the Diocese of Neiv Jersey ^ 

EXTEACT FROM THE SERMON OF BISHOP DO A Is E, AT THE 
CONSECEATIOIn" Of ST. mart's church, DECEMBER 23, 1834. 

1 Samuel vii. 12. — Hitherto hath the Lord helped us. 

^Trom us, brethren of this congregation, the transaction of 
the day calls for a special tribute of gratitude and praise. Re- 
turning now from our brief exile to this venerable place, where, 
for a hundred and thirty years, prayers have been made, through 
Christ, to God, — assembled under circumstances, so much im- 
proved, of comfort to ourselves, and of accommodation to such 
as may desire to join us, — does it not become us, like the prophet, 
to set up here our stone of help, and to confess, with a loud voice 
and glowing heart, that ^hitherto the Lord hath helped us?' 
To us this is a most eventful day — a day whose issues, grasping 
all the circuit of our lives, reach forth into eternity. Here, for 
a century and a quarter, the prayers and praises of the faithful 
have arisen to heaven, till even the ground on which we stand 
seems consecrated, and, to our awed and captivated spirits, ^ all 
the air a solemn stillness holds.' Here have your feet, week 
after week, come up, 'with them that keep holy day;' and, in 



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your hearts, and in the hearts of all your children, it must be 
associated with what is best and happiest of the things and 
thoughts of earth, with what is brightest with the light, and 
fullest of the hopes of heaven. Here you have prayed that still 
your feet might come, while they should tread the paths of earth; 
and that, when you were gone hence and were no more seen, 
your children, and your children's children, might fill the seats 
which you fill, imbibe the wisdom which has guided you through 
life, and catch the glorious hope which is to give you victory in 
death. Awakening reminiscences and prompting thoughts like 
these, is it not, brethren, a solemn and eventful hour? Sur- 
rounded by such circumstances, and such associations, — the 
memory and example of the beloved dead, the looks and voices 
of the beloved living, the deep and strong impression of His 
presence who has now accepted this to be His temple, — must we 
not feel that this indeed is ^ holy ground?' While, then, the 
inspiration of the hour is on us, wdiile we breathe for the first 
time the religion of the place, let us desire of Him from whom 
alone all good things do come, to make both profitable and per- 
manent the impressions which we now receive. This hour, this 
day, cannot return to us again. This place can no more be to 
us what it is this day, this hour. We stand upon an isthmus. 
The waves of time divide beneath our feet. We can look back 
on all the past. We can look forward to the distant, pregnant 
future. Let us not lose the golden opportunity. Let us look 
backward, and look forward. With fervent gratitude to Him 
who hitherto hath helped us, with lively confidence in the con- 
tinued exercise of His protecting care, we may present accepta- 
bly, through Jesus Christ, the free-will offering of a holy wor- 
ship, and win, through His most precious merits, for us and for 
our children, the blessing promised to the faithful, * even life 
for evermore.' 

It is now more than one hundred and thirty years since the 
measures were adopted which led to the erection of the Church 
which, enlarged now for the fourth time, to meet the increasing 
disposition to entertain the doctrines here professed, and to unite 
in the worship here offered, has to-day, with due solemnities^ 



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429 



been set apart for the service and glory of God. The early his- 
tory of these most laudable endeavours is full of interest ; and 
eloquent, at every step, from the year one thousand seven iiun- 
dred and two until this present day, in illustrating and enforc- 
ing the sentiment of the text, ^ Hitherto hath the Lord helped 
us.' ' The first English inhabitants of this country,' says an 
old and authentic writer, ^ were Quakers and Anabaptists. In 
the year 1702, the Rev. Mr. Keith f and the Rev. Mr, Talbot 
were traveling preachers in these countries, from the Society for 
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ; and, as the 
sober Quakers of New Jersey agreed with many of their breth- 
ren at Philadelphia, in thinking that the written word of God, 
and the instituted means of grace ought to be more attended to, 
they were induced, by hearing some sermons from Mr. Keith 
and Mr. Talbot, to inquire what was the doctrine of the Church 
of England. In a little time a considerable congregation 
gathered themselves together, resolving to receive the Church of 
England worship. As the people had agreed to conform with 
the Church of England, their next care was to get a Minister. 
They had heard Mr. Keith and Mr. Talbot often preach, and 
the latter was particularly acceptable to many of them. Mr, 
Talbot was also desirous to employ his labours in this country, 
rather than in any other place. They invited him to stay with 
them, and sent over a request to the Bishop of London, and to 
the Society, desiring that he might be settled among them, which 
w^as granted.' ^ The people soon began to set about building a 
Church. The Church of St. Mary,' (called in the first charter 
St. Ann's,) ^had its foundation stone laid in 1703, on the 25th 
of March,' (the festival of the Annunciation of the Blessed Vir- 
gin,) ^ and was therefore named St. Mary's. The building was 
carried on with that zeal and vigour, that on Whitsunday in 
1704, divine service was performed, and the sacrament admin- 
istered in it i to a large congregation.' Such was the first 

t An engraved likeness of Mr. Keith, was placed in the sacristy of the new 
St. Mary's Church, in 1869. 

J "1704: the 4th of June being Whitsunday was the first time the Holy \ 
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper was Administered in St Ann's Church att / 
Burlington By the Eev Mr John Talbott & Mr Sharp and the first Sermon .y 



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beginning of St. Mary's Church. In its material structure it 
must have been a building of the width of the old edifice, and 
nearly square. As a religious society, it had vigorous existence 
and a good degree of increase under its first Minister, who 
served before its altars five and twenty years, and is described 
by his contemporaries as a very zealous and industrious man.' 

^'In 1761, the Rev. Colin Campbell, then the Society's Mis- 
sionary at Burlington, and visiting occasionally Mt. Holly and 
Bristol, reports, in the three places, seventy-four baptisms and 
fifty communicants. His ministry in Burlington covered a 
period of nine and twenty years ; towards the close of w^hich, in 
1763, he reports no less than 115 baptisms, and in his three 
congregations 50 persons added to the communion ; and assures 
the Society that the people of his Mission are sincere, hearty^ 
and religious, with w^hom he has always lived in the greatest 
harmony. 

In 1769, under the ministry of the Rev. Jonathan Odell, 
who was nine years in charge of the parish, the building was 
extended westward, wdth the addition of a gallery, — and this, 
although the town itself had increased but little, if at all ; ^ on 
account,' as Mr. Campbell states in his report, in 1763, ^ of some 
disadvantages in their situation in regard to trade, which oblige 
the young people to remove to other parts.' 

"In 1811, under the ministry of its late beloved and la- 
mented Rector, the Church was enlarged, improved and beauti- 
fied, by an extension eastward, including the late chancel ; at 
which time also the pulpit was removed from the side to the 
east end. 

"In 1821, there being still a call for pews, the sittings in the 
Church, and its general convenience were much increased by 
the removal of the door^ then placed just where I stand, to the 
west end ; with other alterations, all eminently judicious. 

" Finally, by the good hand of God upon us still, prospering 
with increase the blessed seed of His most holy Word, it was 

preached in the Pulpit was on St Peters day the 29th of June 1704. — 1704-5 
the 18th febrary being the Sunday before Lent the Holy Sacrament of the 
Lords Supper was Administred here in Burlington the Second time by the 
Revrd Mr Talbott;'— Account Book, 



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deemed necessary, in the month of September last, and then de- 
termined by the Vestry of this Church, to maive such alterations 
as should ^augment its revenues/ / improve its appearance/ ^ in- 
crease its convenience/ and ^ extend its usefulness/ Of the 
result of this resolution, so far, at least, as increase of conve- 
nience is concerned, you, friends and brethren,, are witnesses to- 
day. That, when completely finished, its appearance will be 
much improved, you can yourselves well judge. The exten- 
sion of its usefulness must be sought for by us of the Lord, who 
hitherto has helped us ; and will be found, if we are faithful to- 
our holy trust, in the results of His blessing upon our prayers, 
our efforts, and our sacrifices. 

Brethren of this congregation, does it not become us well 
to say that hitherto the Lord has helped us ? Run back in 
fancy to the second year of the last century. See the little band 
of faithful followers of Christ,, consulting and contriving, day 
after day, and night after night, how they shall rear a temple 
for the worship of their God and Saviour, in the way their un- 
derstanding has adopted, and their hearts approve. See them,, 
with difficulty, and at great hazard, and with great self- 
sacrifice, compass the erection of a plain and humble edifice of 
thirty feet in breadth, by, perhaps, forty feet in length. Hear 
them commended by the historian of their labours, for their zeal 
and vigour in accomplishing, in fifteen months, a work of 
smaller moment than our eyes have seen effected in less than as- 
many wrecks. Behold them, on the joyous festival of Whit- 
Sunday, assembled in their simple house of prayer, and pouring 
out, from hearts that overflow^ed with gratitude and joy, the ex- 
ulting strains which still, taught by the Church, that holy 
season puts in all our mouths, — ^ Great is the Lord, and highly 
to be praised ; in the city of our God, even upon his holy hill. 
The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth ; 
upon the north side lieth the city of the great King. God is 

well known in her palaces for a sure refuge Like as we have 

heard, so have w^e seen,, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the 

city of our God; God upholdeth the same forever Walk 

about Sion, and go round about her,, and tell the towers thereof. 



432 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses, that ye may tell 
them that come after. For this God is our God for ever ; he 
shall be our guide unto death/ Follow their self-denyiDg and 
laborious Missionary, ^ on the verge of sixty, and greatly weak- 
ened by an inflammatory fever,' toiling his weary way from 
Burlington to Bristol, and from Bristol to Mount Holly, to tend 
and feed his Master's scattered sheep. Run down the lapse of 
years, and see the humble fold extending westward, and then 
eastward, and enlarged with all economy and skill, that it may 
meet the wants of anxious souls, and shelter from the howling 
storm the Saviour's flock. Rehearse the names of noble benefac- 
tors, who, in a far off land, gave freely of their gold, to nurse 
and cherish this remote and feeble congregation of God's people, 
— the Lady Catherine Bovey, the generous Thomas Leicestei', 
the Bishops Frampton, of Gloucester, and Compton, of London, 
and her Royal Majesty, Queen Anne, — so that we may literally 
use the prophecy of Scripture, that a Queen has been its nursing 
mother. Observe the memorable fact that, of this eventful 
series of one hundred and thirty years, three pastors filled the 
space of ninety ; the last of whom, that humble, holy man, 
whose mortal part reposes just below this pulpit, over whose 
new tomb the tears of a whole sorrowing people vrere so lately 
shed, went in and out among you, day by day through seven 
and thirty winters, — fulfilling thus God's promise to his own 
loved Sion, ' I will deck her priests with health, and her saints 
shall rejoice and sing.' Ponder these things, my brethren : 
and then, in the possession and enjoyment of this holy and beau- 
tiful house, the result of so much watching and of so much toil, 
the subject of so many tears and prayers, on which the noblest 
impulses of Christian hearts have been so long and freely exer- 
cised, and which owes its last and best improvement to the mu- 
nificent bequest of him into whose pious labors I have entered, 
— then, here, to-day, set up your done of help, and say, with 
holy Samuel, ^ Hitherto the Lord hath helped us !' Then, here, 
to-day, moved by these mercies of our God, present yourselves, 
your souls and bodies, a living sacrifice, devoted to His service. 
Then, here, to-day, profess yourselves not only in name, but in 



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deed and truth ^ the followers of the crucified Redeemer ; and 
seek^ by faith in Him, that cleansing unction of His blood, 
^Yhich can alone remove your sins. Then, here, to-day, and 
every day hereafter, make it your single effort and your ceaseless 
prayer so to be faithful unto death, that you may at last receive 
and wear for ever in heaven the crown of everlasting life. 

" My Christian brethren, if the six score years and ten that 
have passed by this house of prayer, had each a tongue, what 
lessons would they teach us ! What evidence would they afford 
of the uncertain tenure of all earthly things ! And with what 
eloquent earnestness would they commend to our affections those 
better things, laid up with Christ in God, which, being like 
Him invisible, are like Him eternal also ! They would tell us 
of the joyous throngs who, week by week, came up in other 
years ^ to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord and point- 
ing then to the low graves in which those joyous throngs are 
gathered now, they would tell us that, of all they ever had on 
earth, their faith in Jesus Christ alone remains to them in un- 
impaired and ever-during worth. They would tell us of many 
a ransomed sinner, admitted here into the blessed family of 
Christ, listening here to the lively oracles of sacred truth, and 
celebrating here, as you to-day have celebrated, the praises of 
God and of the Lamb, now gone to sleep in Jesus, and with 
Him to rise and reign. And they would tell us, — must we not 
fear that they would tell us ? — of holy resolutions never performed, 
of vows of obedience never fulfilled, of duties the most sacred 
and imperative time after time postponed, and at last by death 
precluded and cut off for ever. And they would warn us, by 
that warning of all others the mos^t fearful, the expectation of 
the final judgment day, to do now what our hands find to do 
with our whole might, since there is neither knowledge, nor de- 
vice nor work, in the dark grave to which we hasten. — My 
brethren, the disclosures which these tongueless years cannot 
make audible to us, they have recorded in the book of God. 
There they stand, a registry of guilt, the sentence written under 
them of God^s eternal justice, fearful to think of, and which no 
mortal man can look upon and live. There they stand, black 

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with the presage of our avvful doom ; and if the blood of Jesus 
wash them not away, we must sink down without a hope of 
rescue from the stern decree, and bear the inextinguishable pen- 
alty of everlasting death. Brethren, beloved, let it not be so I 
Hear, while you may, the kind beseeching voice wdth which the 
Saviour calls you to Himself. Accept in fervent faith the over- 
tures of that salvation which He purchased for you with His 
blood. With child-like and confiding love yield up your hearts- 
to the control of that divine and Holy Spirit, which is freely 
given to all who ask it, helping all their infirmities, consoling 
them in all their sorrows, and sanctifying their whole soul and 
body and spirit, that they may be blameless in the day of our 
Lord Jesus Christ. Come to Him to-day, who for so many 
years, in the mercies of His providence and in the blessings of 
His grace, has richly come to you. Here, in this holy temple, 
newly consecrated to His glory who made, redeemed,, and sanc- 
tified you, make new your consecration of yourselves to Him- 
and to His service ; that as He w-ho has called you is holy, so- 
may you also be holy in all manner of conversation and godli- 
ness. He will accept the offering through the interceding love 
of Jesus Christ. He will enable you, by the constraining gen- 
tleness of the eternal Spirit, to keep and do the holy covenant 
which He has written in your hearts. Here, in His holy house, 
which He has chosen for Himself to place His name in. He will 
hear the voice of all your prayer ; and when your earthly house 
of this tabernacle is dissolved, you shall possess, through the- 
prevailing merits of your Saviour, a house not made wdth hands,, 
eternal in the heavens. — Grant it, God of our salvation, for thy 
mercies' sake in Jesus Cl^'ist. Sustain us safely through the 
trials, troubles, and temptations of the world. And when our 
service here is done, receive us to Thyself, that gathered all to- 
gether and united all with Thee, we may be thine throughout 
eternal ages of unmiugled joy ! We ask it for His sake who 
died for sinners ; and to Him, with the Almighty Father and 
Eternal Spirit, shall be given all the praise,'^ 



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DIAGRAM OF THE COXSECRATED CHURCH. 

The following is a very accurate representation of the interior 
arrangements of the Church, after its enlargement North and 
South ; 




L _i 



a. Holy Table. 

b. Credence. 

c. Reading Desk. 

d. Pulpit. 

€. Steps to Pulpit. 
/. Font. 

g. Bishop's Chair. 

h. Assistant's Chair. 

i. Eohino; Eoom. 



j. Vestibule and Parish Library. 
k. South Door. 

/. Staircase to Organ Gallery. 

m. Staircase to West Gallery. 

n. West Door and Porch. 

0. Staircase to North Gallery. 

p. North Door. 

q. Benches for Parish School. 



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THE CHUECH SPOKEN OF IN CONVENTION. 

^'On Tuesday, December 23cl, 1834, on the representation of 
the Wardens and Yestry, that St. Mary's Church, Burlington, 
having been erected one hundred and thirty years ago, and 
eighty years before the introduction of the episcopate into the 
country, had never been consecrated according to the usages of 
the Protestant Episcopal Churcli, and on their request, that, 
being now, for the fourth time, enlarged, and greatly improved, 
it might be so set apart, I proceeded duly to consecrate it to the 
service and worship of Almighty God, — tlie Rev. Messrs. Cum- 
ing, (of New York,) Morehouse, Peters, and Starr being present 
and assisting. You will be gratified to learn that though the 
sittings in the Church are fully doubled, the pews are very 
nearly all disposed of. Of the increased convenience and beauty 
which the building and its appendages have received, your pres- 
ence here — on which I again congratulate both myself and the con- 
gregation — renders it unnecessary that I should speak. While 
we thank God that he has bestowed on us so full a measure of 
temporal prosperity, may we remember that the true object of 
desire is a fuller measure of his holy Spirit, creating us anew 
^in righteousness and true holiness,' and filling us with ^all joy 
and peace in believing.' " — Episcopal Address, 1835. 

INCREASED PASTORAL LABOURS. 

Bishop Doaoe appends to his report as Rector of St. Mary's 
Church, as follovv^s : 

"Since the last Convention, the Church has been doubled in 
size, being now in form a Latin Cross, of which the nave is 80 
feet by 30, and the transept 60 feet by 30. There were before 
34, and now are 60 pews, nearly all of which are occupied. 
The whole arrangement of the Church, including improve- 
ments of the ground, fixtures, furniture, &c., has cost about 
$4,500. About $800 were raised as a premium for the choice 
of pews. The frequent absence of the Rector, of necessity, 
interrupts his pastoral labours, and diminishes their effect. 
Since his sickness in the autumn, he has been aided, under the 
liberal provision of the Convention, by the acceptable services 



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437 



of the Eev. Mr. Peters, The Church is generally oi^en, when 
the Rector is at home, on Sunday evenings, and always on 
Thursday evenings ; when a Lecture is delivered, expository of 
the Scriptures, which is also the lesson for the Sunday school, 
on the Sunday following. This service has been peculiarly 
blessed to the spiritual edification of the people. An increasing 
interest in the best things, has been perceptible among them, 
and has lately resulted in several adult baptisms, and the con- 
firmation of twenty-six persons ; nearly all of whom, it is hoped, 
will present themselves at the table of the Lord. The children 
are catechized on the afternoon of the first Sunday in every 
month, after evening prayer, before the whole congregation. 
The exercise is acknowledged as profitable to all, and gives 
great satisfaction. The Rector has pursued, since February, with 
signal advantage, a systematic course of Pastoral Visitation and 
instruction, from house to house. The Offerings of the Church 
for eleven months, (from 1st of June to 1st of May,) are a little ' 
greater in amount, than for the tiuelve months of last year. They 
are collected on the morning of the first Sunday in each month, 
(when the Communion is always administered,) and are presented 
on the Lord^s table, as the oblations of the people.'' 

CATECHIZIXG THE CHILDEEN. 

The catechizmg of the children I have found productive of 
the best effects. Children, parents, pastors, and myself, by no 
means to the least extent, have been partakers in the pleasing, 
and, I trust in God, the profitable interest. It has brought 
forth that ' form of sound w^ords,' which is ^ to be learned by 
every person before he be brought to be confirmed by the Bishop,' 
from comparative obscurity, to its due prominence in the Church. 
It is the beginning, I fondly hope, of a course of efforts, by 
w^hich, if God help us, the Church in this diocese will regain 
her proper hold upon her infant members, and be enabled, by 
divine grace, to ' bring them up in the nurture and admoni- 
tion of the Lord.' Parents are universally gratified with the 
arrangement. The children take delight in it. With my 
reverend brethren, no argument or influence is necessary to 



438 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



insure their hearty zeal in feeding the Saviour's lambs. Hitherto 
the examination, with two or three exceptions, has been confined 
to the mere repeating of the words. Hereafter, it is my wish 
that the children be prepared for what is more properly a cate- 
chetical exercise, in being examined on the meaning of the 
words, the Scriptural authority for them, and their practical appli- 
cation ; and I design myself to take a part in it. A thorough 
trial of the experiment in my own parish, in wdiich the children, 
once in a month, are catechized ^openly in the Church,' before 
the whole congregation, has thoroughly convinced me that no 
exercise can be more engaging to the children, more edifying 
to the people, or more profitable to the pastor." — Episcopal 
Address, 1835. 

OFFERINGS OF THE CHUECH." 

" The ' Offerings of the Church,' in the diocese of New Jer- 
sey, are the voluntary contributions of the people, laid up, in 
accordance with the Apostolic precept, in the 16th chapter of 
St. Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians. — 

'^'^o\Y, concerning the collection for the saints, as I have 
given order to the Churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon 
the first day of the loeeh, let every one of you lay by Mm in store, 
as God hath "prospered him, that there he no gatherings ivhen I 
come,^ — and to be employed, under the direction of the Bishop, 
in Missionary purposes ; nine tenths in the diocese of Xew Jer- 
sey, and one-tenth elsewhere. 

'^In introducing the plan into any Church, the Minister is 
supposed to have a list of every man, woman, and child, in his 
congregation. Upon every individual, he either calls himself, or 
sees that some suitable person calls, to ask his engagement to 
endeavour, on every Lord's day, to ' lay by him in store ' at 
least a certain sura, increasing it ^ as God hath prospered him ; ' 
and it is particularly recommended that ' the little children' be 
encouraged to the practice. 

The names of the persons consenting are enrolled in a little 
book, ruled with twelve columns, for the months in the year, 
which the Minister himself keeps. 



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439 



" On the morning of the first Sunday in each month, (notice 
?iiaving been given, on the preceding Sunday, that ^the offer- 
ings of the Chnrch ' for the four Sundays in , or the five 

Sundays in , as the case may be, will be collected,) the 

-sums laid by ^ in store' on the several Sundays in the month, 
— the contribution of each person, or each family, being done up 
in a paper, marked with the name of the contributor, and sealed 
or tied, — are gathered, by the proper persons, directly after the 
reading of the Gospel, and placed, if it be a communion day, 
^ upon the Holy Table,' and so offered to the Lord, with ^ the 
alms for the poor,' and other devotions of the people. The 
parcels being opened, the several sums are credited to their 
respective contributors, in the proper column for the month, and 
'remitted quarterly to the Treasurer, (James Hunter Sterling, 
Esq., at Burlington, by mail or otherwise,) before the 20th day 
of February.f 

The engagement to lay up a certain sum weekly, is adopted, 
that, after the first month, there may be a probable estimate of 
the missionary income of the year. Of course, it does not limit 
the offering to that sum — the rule which is supposed to govern 
the Christian being, ' as God hath prospered him.' The recom- 
mendation in the diocese of New Jersey was, that, one with 
:another, adults and children, an average of at least five cents in 
'each iceeh should be laid by ^ in store,' — because it was desired 
to propose a mark which all should reach, and because, were 
that amount realized, it w^ould produce a sufficient sum for the 
missionary purposes of the diocese." — Appendix to Episcopal 
Address J 1835. 

DIOCESAX E.ETEOSPECTIOX. 

It is now within nine days of forty-two years, since the first 
convention was held in St. Mary's Church. Since then, what 
-changes have taken place! What progress has been made! 
What rich experience has been here enjoyed of God's protection 



t This seems to be tlie origin of what has grown to be so extensively used, 
.throughout the Church, and is known as " The Pledge and Envelope System." 

G. M. H. 



440 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



of His Church ! How fit an emblem is this holy and beautiful 
house, — enlarged, improved, adorned, and filled, we trust, with 
spiritual worshippers, — of the increase and prosperity with 
which God has blessed the diocese ! The number of the Clergy 
in the year 1793, was five, of whom, at the time alluded to, but 
four were present ; while fifteen delegates, from ten parishes, 
composed the whole of the lay representation. There was then, 
and for twenty-two years thereafter, no Bishop in the Diocese- 
Since that, there have been five meetings of the Convention 
in this Church. At that in 1800, there were present four 
Clergymen, — in 1805, there were five, — in 1811, seven, — in 
1817,1^672, — in 1828, seven years ago, eleven. There are now 
twenty-three. These are instructive statements. They shoio the 
effective influence of the UpisGoj)al office in strengthening and ex- 
tending the Church. Before the accession of the first Bishop of 
the diocese in 1815, the greatest number of the Clergy was eight. 
By the blessing of the Lord upon his faithful oversight, the 
number had increased in 1832, the year of his decease, to nine- 
teen. There are now twenty-nine. — They bear strong testimony 
to the prevailing ■power of the truth and order of the Gosj^eL 
No where has the Church had less to hope for from external 
aids. No where has it been more true that ^ not many wise 
men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called.^ 
No where has the array of counteracting influences been more 
complete or formidable. No where has ' evangelical truth ' been 
more distinctly taught, or ^ apostolic order ' more steadfastly 
maintained. The triumph here achieved, — from my recent 
residence among you, I can speak of what has been as an impar- 
tial witness — the triumph here achieved has been the triumph 
of ^ the Gospel in the Church.^ The Gospel has been here pre- 
sented as the Gospel. The Church has been presented as the 
Church. The result, with His blessing, who is ^ Head over all 
things to the Church, which is his body,^ is seen already in a 
good degree of increase, and in an approach as near as can be 
expected here on earth, to the unity enjoined by the Apostle on 
his Corinthian converts, — ' now I beseech you brethren, by the 
name of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye all speak the same thing;^ 



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441 



and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be per- 
fectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judg- 
ment/' — Episcopal Address, 1835. 

REPEAL OF TWO PROVISOS IX THE CHARTER. 

" [Xo. 214.] 

State of Xew Jersey. 
^^A Supplement to the act entitled ^ An act to incorporate the 
Protestant Episcopal Church of Saint Mary in the City of 
Burlington/ to annul the former charter thereof, and to repeal 
'An act to amend and confirm the charter of the Episcopal 
Church, called Saint Mary, in the City of Burlington/ passed 
May twenty-eighth, seventeen hundred and ninety-three. 
" Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Council and General Assembly 
of this State, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the 
same. That all the proviso contained in the fourth section of the 
act to which this is a supplement, be, and the same is hereby 
repealed ; and that the following proviso be inserted in lieu 
thereof, viz. : Provided always, That in the disposition, sale, or 
alienation of such messuages, houses, lands, tenements, and here- 
ditaments, the consent of at least six members of the vestry shall 
be had and obtained. 

"■'Sec. 2. And be it enacted. That the words following the 
second proviso, in the eleventh section of the act to which this 
is a supplement, to wit : ' That if at any time nine or more 
members of the said vestry shall agree so to do, they may dis- 
charge said minister, giving him six months notice of their inten- 
tion, after which time his salary shall cease and the said minister 
shall peaceably leave the Church, and' beand the same are hereby 
repealed and stricken out of the said eleventh section. 

"House of Assembly " In Council 

March 4th, 1836. ' March 9th, 1836. 

This Bill having been three This Bill having been three- 

^ times read and compared times read in Council 

in the House of Assembly Eesolved, That the same do pass^ 

Eesolved, That the same do pass By order of Council 

By order of the ' P. D. Yeoom - 

House of Assembly Prest. of Council 
Daxiel B. Eyall 

Speaker of the House of AssernUyP — Parish Archives^ 

COXCERXIXG DAXCTXG IX THE ACADEMY. 

"To CapAain Xewton : 

" Dear Friexd,— On the instant that I learn that there is 
any difference of opinion on the subject of our conversation last 
evening I adopt this course of reasoning. There is no principle 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



or duty requiring the amusement in question. Some think it 
wrong in that place. Therefore it ought not to be. I acted on 
these grounds in regard to the Cross, and shall endeavour always 
to do so. It will be well to make the disappointment as easy 
to the young folks as may be, and this I am sure you will aid 
in doing. I asked when the matter was first named if the 
Wardens approved and understood that they did, or I should 
have made further inquiry to-day. 

''^Affectionately yours, 

'' G. W. DoAXE." 

''St. Mary's Parsonage, 2 May, 1836." 

AMUSEMENTS FOR MAY-DAY. 

" Jb John T. Neioton and James U. Sterling, Esquires, Wardens 
of St. Mary^s Church. 

"Gentlemex, — The fact that two of the Yestry, (one of 
them a Warden,) disapprove of any part of the arrangements 
proposed by the children for May-day is conclusive with me. 
We must go together unless where principle divides us — which 
I hope it never will. Let it be stated then to the ladies who 
are in the direction that on further consideration the Rector and 
Wardens have deemed it inexpedient that there should be music 
or dancing in the Academy, and let the statement be made as 
early in the morning as may be. I could under no circum- 
stances grant my consent to the indulgence, knowing that any 
portion of the Yestry disapproved of it. An Apostle has 
declared that thoug^h all thino^s are lawful all thino^s are not 
expedient." 

"Affectionately your friend & servant, 

" G. W. DOANE." 

" St. Mary's Parsonage, 2 May, 1836." 

THE COXDITIOX OF THE PAEISH. 

In his report, as Rector, to the Convention held May 25th, 
1836, Bishop Doane says : 

" The condition of the parish is in most respects encouraging. 
The practice of explaining before the congregation the Scriptural 



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443 



lesson for the Sunday School is still kept up with great advan- 
tage. It forms the Lecture for Sunday afternoon, except on the 
first Sunday in the month, when the children are catechised 
^openly in the Church/ instead of the sermon. This congrega- 
tion continues to give noble support to the diocesan plan of 
-systematic charity — their contributions this year being $354,83, 
:about twenty-five per cent, more than last year. Their dona- 
tions to other objects are none the less liberal. The ladies of 
the parish all unite as a Sewing Circle, which meets at the Par- 
sonage once in every fortnight, to work for charitable purposes. 
Besides clothing many of the Sunday Scholars, and doing much 
for the relief of the sick, poor, and afilicted of the parish, they 
have contributed §50 to the ' Offerings of the Church.' The 
Eev. Samuel Starr has lately entered with great acceptance on 
the office of Assistant Minister.^' 

"will xeyer forsake the plax of a diocesan school." 

In the same Episcopal Address — May 25th, 1836 — Bishop 
Doane says : — I have pledged myself never to forsake the plan 
of a Diocesan School, and I never will. I am more and more 
convinced of its importance. There is nothing in so great 
demand among us as good education, and there is nothing so 
scarce. There is no influence so generally desired for its direc- 
tion and its control, as that of the Episcopal Church, and there 
is none which exerts itself so little. This ought not to be so. 
We are losing what w^e cannot calculate, and never can regain. 
There is no part of the United States more favorable for the 
purpose, than that in which we are most concerned, and there is 
nothing which we so greatly need. Why should it not be done ? 
We have declared ourselves a Missionary Church ; why should 
we not have Missionary schools, and a Missionary College 

MOURXIXG for bishop WHITE. 

On Sunday, July 24th, 1836, St. Mary's Church was clad in 
mourning weeds for the late Bishop White of Pennsylvania 
(whose burial was attended on the Wednesday preceding in 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Philadelphia^t) and Bishop Doane (who was one of the pall- 
bearers on that occasion) preached a sermon fromProv. IV, 18, 
[^But the path of the Just is as a shining light, that shineth more 
and more unto the perfect day,~\ in commemoration of the 
departed Senior Bishop. 

THE LORD BISHOP OF QUEBEC IN BURLIXGTOX. 

•'On Sunday, Aug. 14th, 1836,'^ says Bishop Doane in his 
Episcopal Address, I enjoyed the high satisfaction of listen- 
ing to an edifying sermon in this Church, by my right reverend 
brother, the Lord Bishop of Quebec. The recollection that to 
the Church, of which he is a prelate, our whole communion "is 
indebted for its first foundation, and for a long continuance of 
nursing care and protection/ and especially the traces, w^iich 
everywhere surround us, in this parish, of royal and of indi- 
vidual bounty, from the same venerable branch of the Church 
Catholic, gave to his visit a peculiar interest.'^ 

COMMITTEE TO PROCURE A NEW ORGAN. 

At a meeting of the Vestry held March 27th, 1837, the fol- 
lowing action was had : 

The organ now in St. Mary's Church being very much out 
of repair, it was stated, by Capt. Newton, that Messrs. Corrie & 
Huddie, Builders, had examined the same and offered to allow 
the sum of $200 for it, in part payment for a new one. Where- 
upon 

" Voted, That the Wardens be a committee to procure a new 
organ, the cost of which shall not exceed the sum of six hun- 
dred and fifty dollars. 

3I0NUMENT TO THE EATE REV. DR. WHARTON. 

At the same meeting, on motion of the Right Rev. the Rector, 
voted, " That a committee be appointed to take measures for 
the erection, in St. Mary's Church, of a monument to the mem- 
ory of the late Rev Dr Wharton. 

''On motion of Gen Wall, the Rector was chosen as this 
Committee.'' (See p. 416.) 



t The Vestry of St. Mary's, Burlington, attended in a body. 



IN BUELINGTON. 



445 



BISHOP DOANE TEAVELS AS FREIGHT. 

"When Bishop Doaoe was commencing St. Mary's Hall, 
early in 1837, he had occasion to visit the city of New York in 
order to secnre pecuniary aid. He was detained there until the 
close of Saturday. He had made no provision for the supply of 
his Church at Burlington, on the approaching Sunday. He 
therefore hastened to set off for home by the evening train. On 
the way to the station he met with a friend whom he found dis- 
posed to listen to his statements respecting the great importance 
of the proposed enterprise, and whose interest increased in con- 
versation upon the subject. The time was consequently allowed 
to pass when the evening train was to leave ; but the Bishop 
knew that a freight train was to pass through Burlington from 
New York at a later hour that night, to Avhich he supposed there 
would be a passenger car attached. 

" When the Bishop parted from his friend, he hurried to the 
railroad station. He was there informed that a freight train 
was to go immediately, but that no passenger car was to accom- 
pany it. The Bishop at once proposed to ride on the engine, 
or even to sit or stand on one of the platforms, or to occupy a 
chair such as is often secured on the roof of a car of that sort. 
He was then told that strict orders had been received forbidding 
the agent to permit any person to travel as a passenger in that 
train. The Bishop replied — ^ Very well, obey your orders. I 
never can encourage anything like disobedience. Yet you say 
that this is a freight train. Are all your cars full ? Do you 
forward freight by weight ? ' The agent said, ^ We have room 
for more than we have on board. We weigh whatever is to be 
forwarded, and charge by the pound.' The Bishop went to the 
scales, and asked to be weighed, and then to be put into a car 
as freight ! The agent did not know Bishop Doane. He looked 
upon the proceeding, though, as a good joke. After he had put 
in this extraordinary freight, and secured the door — which he 
was required to do — he remarked to his assistants, ' This is the 
greatest instance of perseverance that I have ever known.' 

" When the train arrived at Burlington early the following 
morning, the man who had charge of it told the agent in that 



446 HISTOEY OF THE CHUECH 



city that there was some freight in one of the cars the like of 
which he never had heard of having been carried over any road 
in a train like that before. The car door was opened, and the 
Bishop of New Jersey stepped out ! He w^as well known by 
everybody at that station. The charges had been paid before 
starting from New York. A portion of the freight over the 
Camden and Amboy Eailroad on that memorable night, then 
walked to the Episcopal residence at Burlington, to prepare for 
the services of the day as Eector of St. Mary^s Church i 

If ' at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to 
God' when suffering confinement in an Mnner prison,' can we 
doubt that the midnight hours voluntarily spent, for the 
Church's sake, in the dark, exposed to danger, in a closed 
freight car, by the founder of St. Mary's Hall, registered prayers 
in heaven for that institution, and for the Church of Christ, 
which are now being answered ever year, in blessings upon both ? 

" The writer of the above was intimately acquainted with 
Bishop Doane, and the statements here given were made to him 
by the Bishop himself." — Rev. JohnWoart,U.S,A. Jan. 1873. 

'^AX APPEAL TO PARENTS 
FOR 

FEMALE EDUCATION OX CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES ; 
W'lTH A PROSPECTUS OF 
ST. MARY's hall, 
GREEN BANK, BURLINGTON, NEW' JERSEY." 

Under this title — with a handsome engraving of the attractive 
property he had secured, preceding it — Bishop Doane issued a 
Circular," wdth this inscription : 

^' To all w^ho bear the sacred name of daughter, sister, wife 
or mother, and to all who honor it, this appeal to parents also 
addresses itself ; and to their prayers and patronage the institu- 
tion now proposed is entrusted and commended." 

From this publication, we give the chief points, in its own 
language : 

An age wdiich has adorned itself, and blessed the w^orld, 
with the Sunday School enterprise^ and the Infant School system. — 



IN BUELINGTON. 



447 



an age which has established and multiplied its Schools for 
Teachers, has but another step to take, that it may reach the 
first fountains of our nature, and open its Schools for Mothers, 
The mother is the earliest teacher, and the best. Long before 
the Sanday School, or even the Infant School is reached, she 
has given her imprint to the character — an imprint, which 
deepens with our years, and, more than all human influences, 
makes our present life what it is, and gives direction to the life 
which is to come. Regarding the sex in this, in its highest and 
holiest relation ; regarding the delicacy, the difliculty, and the 
responsibility which it involves ; regarding the great end and 
aim of life, the divine image formed in the soul, qualifying it 
for the divine acceptance, through faith which is in Christ 
Jesus ; regarding the sole means by which this end may be suc- 
cessfully pursued, religious instruction, religious example, re- 
ligious influence — is it unreasonable to speak of an Institutiony. 
for female education, on Christian principles, as A School for 
Mothers ? Is it extravagant to believe, that an enterprise, 
which, by such means, aims at such an end, cannot in vain 
appeal to Christians, to patriots, to philanthropists, to men — 
can, least of all, appeal in vain to the parental heart ? 

Short as the time is, since the project first was entertained, 
there remains no doubt of its reception with those whose appro- 
bation antedates the verdict of the public. So far as its pur- 
poses and plan are known, the enterprise has the cordial sanction 
and warm interest of some of the highest minds and largest 
hearts in the land. * * The first consideration has 
been the formation of the domestic establishment of the Institu- 
tion. And, if there needed ever, in a Christian cause, an omen 
of success, God has granted it to the present Institution, in ena- 
bling us to secure, as Chaplain and Head of the Family, and as 
Matron — in a word, as the adopted parents of the daughters of 
St. Mary's Hall — the Rev. Dr. Eaton, and Mrs. Eaton, his 
wife. * * Qf ii^Q HOUSEHOLD which is thus consti- 
tuted, teachers and scholars will alike be members. They will 
dwell under the same roof. They will gather round the same 
table. They will kneel at the same altar. * * Last 



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HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



Gf all places to be left withoat ^ the care of souls/ is a seat of 
female education. * * The father of the family will, 
therefore, also be the shepherd of the lambs. 
Upon our Christian household, for its growth in grace, and in 
the knowledge and love of God, it is our purpose to bring to 
bear, to the fullest extent, the institutions, the ordinances, and 
the influences of the the Chuech. It will enjoy the benefit of 
constant and immediate Episcopal supervision. Its worship, 
whether in the Chapel, or in the parish Church, will be of 
kindred character ; and divine service will be attended, not only 
on the Lord's day, but on all the festivals and fasts of the 
Ohristian year. ^ The doctrines, constitution, and liturgy of 
the Church' will be subjects of constant and diligent instruction. 
Preparation for the apostolic ordinance of confirmation, as indeed 
for the due reception of both the sacraments, will be kept con- 
stantly in view ; and, in short, nothing will be left undone to 
imbue every mind with the principles, and every heart with the 
piety, of the primitive ages of the Church ; and to render St. 
Mary's Hall, a nursery of pure and undefiled religion. It is 
thought best to state distinctly this characteristic of the Institu- 
tion, that there may be no disappointment and no dissatisfaction. 
The doors will be open for all. All who desire instruction will 
be welcome, whatever be their religious birthright, or the pro- 
fession of their parents. But all Vvho come will be instructed 
in the same principles, accustomed to the same worship, and 
trained to the same discipline. There will thus be no division 
of interest, and no collision of feeling. * The 
BEST TEACHEES IX every department of sctexce, liteeatuee, 
and THE FIXE AETS, proper to such an institution, shall be pro- 
cured, and every possible facility shall be aiforded, that its pupils, 
duly improving their opportunities, may become well-instructed 
and accomplished Christian ladies. As soon as may be, after 
the organization is complete, a plan of study, suited to this end, 
to occupy at least three years, after the necessary elements are 
acquired, will be marked out and adopted, as the regular course 
of the Institution ; and though scholars will be received for 
shorter periods, not less than a year, and entered according to 



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their proficiency, the preference will always be given to such as 
will comply with its full requirements. In directing the edu- 
cation of vouns: ladies, it is a nice matter to distribute in their 
just proportion, the useful and the oiiiamental. It will be our 
aim to make the useful, ornamental, and the ornamental, useful. 
The hardest woods receive the highest polish. The elegant 
accomplishment of the sex are never seen to such advantage, as 
when they crown and grace a well cultivated, a well stored, and 
a well balanced mind. It is not the time to state, in full detail, 
the system of instruction. However easy such a sketch might 
be, and however attractive, it will be far safer and more useful 
in the retrospect, than it could be in prospective. Suffice it to 
say, for the general subject, that development, ixither than mere 
acquirement, is regarded as the end — that to be thorough and 
accurate, will always be required in every undertaking — and 
that, in all departments, the chief reference will always be to 
the practical purposes of life. The administration of the busi- 
ness of instruction, will be committed to A Principal Teachee, 
a well-educated, experienced and accomplished Christian lady, 
with assistant teachers in the several branches. All the teachers 
and officers, w^ill be constantly responsible to the Bishop of the 
diocese as Patron, and Principal of the establishment. * * 
All expenditures for the use of the pupils, must be made under 
the direction of the Head of the family ; with whom all moneys 
must be lodged. A proper economy will be strictly enjoined 
on all. Constant attention will be paid to the health, and phys- 
ical vigour of the pupils ; in furtherance of which a suitable 
course of exercise will be systematically pursued. In each of 
the dormitories, an assistant teacher w^ill be constantly present 
with the scholars, who will all occupy single beds. Every 
scholar will be expected to attend to all the varieties of plain 
sewing, and to the various branches of domestic economy, under 
the direction of the Matron, or other suitable person. The cul- 
tivation of sacred music, both vocal and instrumental, will be 
rendered, as nearly as may be, universal. A choir for the 
Chapel will be selected, of those most competent ; and it will 
be an object to qualify as many of the pupils as possible, to 

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preside at the organ, and to take part in the psahiiody of the 
Church. As an important means of improving the literary 
taste, and confirming the moral and religious principles, of the 
scholars, a library of suitable books, in the various departments,, 
will be formed ; to which, additions will, from time to time, be 
made, under the direction of the Bishop ; and, no other books, 
besides the school books, and books of devotion, will be allowed 
within the walls of the Institution. As a grateful 

acknowledgment to Him who put it into the hearts of men to 
project and to establish this Institution, for the Christian educa- 
tion of females, provision is made, and will be continued, for 
the entirely gratuitous support and instruction of one scholar in 
every ten, making application as the daughter of a clergyman of 
the Church, deceased ; or, if living, in necessitous circumstances. 
Such application to be made knowm only to the Head of the 
family, and to the Bishop ; on whose approval it shall be granted. 

" Of the situation, edifices, and grounds, selected for the Insti- 
tution, which is the subject of this Circular, it would be difficult 
to speak in terms which would do justice to them, without the 
appearance of exaggeration. The position, on the Delaware, a 
little more than an hour's journey, by steamboat or railroad^ 
from Philadelphia, and from five to six hours from IS'ew York, 
is unsurpassed for healthfulness, convenience and beauty. The 
buildings, nearly new, and built expressly for a female Semi- 
narv, are extensive, and perfectly commodious, with spacious 
grounds, a well cultivated garden, and a Green-House. The 
school-rooms are of the best construction, light, airy and agree- 
able ; and the whole establishment is fitted up and furnished in 
the best manner, and will be supplied with fixtures and appa- 
ratus of every kind, adapted to the most extended course of 
female education. 

" It remains only that we state the mode in which the pat- 
ronage of the Church is invited, for the establishment and pro- 
motion of the plan we have sketched above. A stock has been 
created, to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars, in one 
hundred shares, of two hundred and fifty dollars each. This is 
to be appropriated to the purchase of the property, to the supply 



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451 



of farniture and ap}3aratus, and to such enlargements and im- 
provements as may hereafter become necessary. Tlie sums sub- 
scribed are to be called for in instalments, not exceeding twenty 
per cent, nor at intervals less than a month. The Stockholders 
own the property ; which is held for them by three persons, in 
trust. The Stock is to bear interest, at six j^er cent, on the 
amount paid in, from May 1st, 1837. The Stockholders are 
not to be liable for the debts and responsibilities of the institu- 
tion, nor entitled to its profits ; and are bound to receive the 
repayment of the capital invested by them wdienever tendered. 
Upon the repayment of the whole, or any part of the principal, 
the ownership of the shares paid off vests in the Right Reverend 
George W. Doane. The entire control and management of the 
Institution are committed to a Board of seven Trustees, nomi- 
nated by the Bishop of the diocese of New Jersey, for the time 
being, and appointed by the Stockholders ; the said Bishop to 
be, ex officio, President of the Board. 

In commending the enterprise to public patronage, by sub- 
scriptions to the capital stock formed for its accomplishment, it 
is respectfully suggested, — that nothing is asked, or will be re- 
ceived, as a gift, but only as a loan — that the sum advanced, and 
interest at six joer cent, are abundantly secured by the property, 
held in trust for their payment — that the objects to be promoted 
by the Institution are closely connected with the best hopes of 
the country, and the dearest interests of man — that the success 
of the enterprise will doubtless encourage other undertakings 
for education on Christian principles — and that, so far as one- 
tenth part of the scholars is concerned, there will be a direct, 
and most effectual exercise of Christian benevolence, towards a 
most interesting class of persons, the daughters of deceased, or 
destitute clergymen. At the time of the printing of this Cir- 
cular, more than half the shares have been subscribed for.'^ 

" Note. — The Institution is organized on the plan of a Christian family, 
under the pastoral care of the Kector of St. Mary's Church, who is the Bishop 
of the diocese. 

" Full courses of Lectures are delivered annually in the Lecture-room of the 
Institution, to the pupils alone, in Botany, Natural Philosophy, and Chemistry, 
with a complete apparatus. 

The year is divided into two terms of twenty-two weeks each ; and two va- 



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THE 2s"EW INSTITUTION READY. 

" You will rejoice with me in the public favour which has 
thus far attended the new enterprize in behalf of education in 
our Church, on Christian principles, St. Mary's Hall. In sonae 
of my late addresses, I have urged the importance of the subject, 
in more especial reference to the education of boys. A provi- 
dential circumstance threw in my way an opportunity to pro- 
mote that most important interest in relation to the sex to w^hich 
we owe our mothers. I acknowledge the reproof which it con- 
veyed ; and have sought to be instructed by it, and to carry it 
out in practice. AYe should have begun there. It is upon the 
character of the mother that the character of the race depends. 
If our daughters be ^as polished corners,' it will not be difficult 
to secure, with God to bless us in our building, that 'the whole 
temple be fitly framed together.' The subject has been so fully 
brought to your notice in other forms, that I dwell on it now no 
farther, than to say, that the Institution is completely organized 
and ready for the reception of pupils ; that the persons charged 
with their care, enjoy, as they deserve, my highest confidence ; 
and that the plan thus far succeeds to my perfect satisfaction. 
It is commended to your pious prayers. 

''An Institution for the education of boys and young men, on 
the same plan, is of the first necessity. It is called for more 
and more loudly by the wants of the country, and by the in- 
creasing intelligence and piety of the Church. The present is 
a favourable juncture to secure advantages which may be lost 



cations of four weeks each. The Summer term commences on the first Wed- 
nesday in May, and the Winter term on the first Wednesday in November. 

" The regular expenses of each term, inckiding boarding and lodging, with 
fuel and lights, and instruction in all the English branches, the ancient lan- 
guages, psalmody, plain sewing, and the domestic economy, will be one 
hundred dollars, payable always in advance. There will be a charge of six 
dollars for each term for the use of bed, bedstead, bedding and towels. Wash- 
ing will be charged at fifty cents a dozen. Pupils who remain will be charged 
§12.50 for each of the two vacations. 

" Instruction, for the quarter of 11 weeks, in French, §7.50 ; German, Italian 
or Spanish, §10.00 ; Drawing and Painting, §8.00 ; Fancy work, §6.00 ; 
Piano, with use of instrument, §15.00 ; Guitar, §15.00 ; Harp, §25.00 ; Organ, 
§20.00. 

" All money for the use of the pupils must be entrusted to the Head of the 
Family, undei' whose directions, expenditures and purchases are to be made. 

" Communications addressed to the Kev. Asa Eaton, D. D., Chaplain and 
Head of the Family of St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, New Jersey." 



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forever. I shall not cease to pray that the diocese of New Jer- 
sey may soon present herself to the Church, in complete organ- 
ization, as a seminary for the sons and daughters of Zion. I 
can conceive of no more desirable completion of the plan, than 
would be presented in a Missionary College." — Episcopal Ad- 
dress, dated April 1st, 1837. 

ST. Mary's hall establlshed. 

May 31st, 1837. The 54th Annual Convention was held in 
St. Mary's, Bishop Doane presiding. Six clergymen from other 
dioceses w^ere present, among whom were the Rt. Rev. C. P. 
Mcllvaine, D. D., Bishop of Ohio, The Rev. Chauncey Colton, 
D. D., and the Rev. William Croswell. 

To his parochial report. Bishop Doane adds : 
The most important event in the history of the parish is con- 
nected with the establishment of St. Mary's Hall, an Institution 
for Female education on Christian principles, under immediate 
Episcopal supervision. The principals, teachers, and scholars, 
forming one family, are all parishioners of St. Mary's Church, 
and there are already twelve added to the communion from that 
source. A class for Scriptural instruction, and another for in- 
struction in the Liturgy, are attended, every week, in addition 
to the constant religious influence of the Reverend Chaplain and 
Head of the Family, and of the Principal Teacher, and her as- 
sistants. On Sundays and Holy days, the whole of the family 
of St. Mary's Hall attend public worship in the parish Church." 

" There are three services on each Lord's Day ; that in the 
afternoon being always an expository lecture, (at present, on 
the Acts of the Apostles, in course,) or the public catechising, 
which occupies the place of the sermon, on the afternoon of the 
first Sunday in every month. The class for Scriptural instruction 
meets on Saturday evening. The ' Offerings of the Church,' 
which are collected on the morning of that day, (being Com- 
munion Sunday,) have amounted to |590.33, being an increase 
since last year of ^235.50. 

" To this result the monthly Missionary Lecture, on the 
evening before the offerings are collected, has been of great im- 



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portance. The coDtribiitions to other objects have also greatly 
increased. The ladies of the Sewing Circle, which embraces 
all in the parish, still prosecute their work and labour of love. 
Besides improving every opportunity to do good to those of 
their immediate household, they have engaged to support one 
Greek girl, at Mrs. Hill's School, in Athens, to be educated, as 
a teacher in Greece. Since the removal of the Rev. Mr. Starr, 
to Trenton, where he occupies the Rectorship of St. Michael's 
Church, there has been no clerical assistance in the parish. 
The services of Mr. Edward G. Prescott, now in deacon's orders, 
during his candidateship, have been of great value to the Sun- 
day school, which is now in a much better state than ever 
before. I am at present much assisted in this department by 
Mr. Benjamin D. AYinslow, a candidate for orders." 

BENJAMI^^- DAYIS WIXSLOW. 

In 1835, Benjamin Davis Winslowt came from Cambridge 

f Benjamin Davis Winslow was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 13th, 1815, and 
baptized, in his sixteenili year, by the Eev. Wm. Croswell, Eector of Christ 
Church, in that city, and from tliat time devoted himself to the sacred min- 
istry. The year following he entered Harvard College. " It was during his 
residence at the University," writes Bishop Doane, "that the Eomish con- 
vent at Charlestown was destroyed, by an outrageous act of lawless violence. 
Winslow was a young man of an enthusiastic, not only, but highly excitable, 
temperament. He felt most strongly the indignation, which that deed 
enkindled in every generous breast. 'What he felt deeply, he was wont to 
express warmly. In some such way, his feelings were enlisted on the side of 
Rome. A young man of 'mark and likelihood,' his case attracted the notice 
of the clergy of that communion, in Boston. One thing led to another, until 
he found himself admitted to, what seemed, their fullest confidence. Books 
were put into his hands. The enticing arts, which none know better how to 
use, were sedulously applied. His very position, as a leader among the young 
Churchmen of the University, when neither his years nor his acquirements 
had enabled him to know, much less to give, a reason of the hope that was in 
him, increased his exposure. With just enough acquaintance with the Church 
to feel a reverence for antiquity, and a disposition to be governed by author- 
ity ; he had made but little progress in that search of Holy Scripture, and of 
ancient authors, by which alone the Christian can be guarded against the 
countless forms of errors — more dangerous, in proportion as they seem the 
more to assimilate themselves to the truth. The result of such a state of 
things was natural and obvious. A young man of less than twenty, his spirit 
all alive to classical and chivalrous associations, thrown ofi" his guard by the 
stirring up of all his deepest impulses, thinking himself to be somewhat, as a 
Churchman, in close and constant conference with a Roman Bishop and his 
Priests ! Who could hesitate as to the issue ? Of all this, I was in perfect 
ignorance ; when I received from him the following letter : " 



IN BURLINGTOX. 



455 



to Burlinsrton, where "he \vas domesticated in the family of the 
Bishop of New Jersey, to whom he was as a son." 

" 'Harvard University, Feb'y 23, 1S35. 

' My Dear Uncle, 

The contents of the following letter, Avill nndonbtedly give you both sur- 
prise and pain ; but duty to myself, to you and to God, compel me to make 
this disclosure. The only thing for ^vhich I lament is, that I did not write 
you my doubts and difficulties six weeks ago ; and then I might have been 
rescued from what you w'ill consider a grent error. To be brief, I am all but 
converted to the faith of the Roman Catholic Church; and unless I am to be 
reclaimed, I must in the course of a few weeks openly join her communion. 
My affections, my sympathies, are all with the Protestant Episcopal Church; 
but my judgment is ahnost convinced that she is in a state of schism. But you 
will naturally enough enquire, how did this come about? Ever since the 
destruction of the convent at Charlestown, my attention has been directed to 
the faith of the [Koman] Catholic Church. I have perused the works of 
several of her best champions ; and have had long conversations with Bishop 
Fenwick, of Boston, and another Eoman Catholic Clergyman. Not that I 
would give you to understand that my investigations have been of an ex parte 
nature; I have also studied the ablest Protestant authors: and yet, the result 
is, that I am nearly if not quite convinced that the Church of Rome is the only 
Church of Christ. 

" ' It is not my design, in writing these lines, to enter into a full relation of the 
various reasons Avhicli have led me to such conclusions ; suffice it to say, that 
my present views seem to my mind to be the Church theory of our own Church, 
carried out to its legitimate result. I have always believed that Christ is not 
divided — that there should be but one fold, as there is one Shepherd — that 
our Lord had promised to be with his visible Church, to the end of the world 
— that His Church should be guided into all truth, and be the jDillar and 
ground of the truth, because he was to be with it all clays. Now these are 
truths, as I humbly think, which are so firmly founded in Scripture, antiquity, 
reason and common sense, that they cannot be overthrown. But if these 
views be true, the Church of Kome, as it appears to me, is the only true 
Church. Where was our Church, before the (so called) Reformation ? [See 
this question ably treated in Dr. Hook's Sermon, * Hear the Church'— G. W. 
D.J Did she not separate from the Catholic Church at that time? If she be 
the true Church, then Christ deserted his Church, and was false to his 
promise of being with her all clays. There certainly cannot be two true 
Churches so at variance as Rome and England. If Rome be right, England 
must be wrong. If Rome be wrong, then our views of the Church must be 
erroneous. Such is my dilemma. And I cannot see any better alternative 
than that of returning to the Mother Church. 

" ' No dissenter can possibly meet my objections. Churchmen, and Church- 
men alone, can understand my peculiar difficulties. I would therefore beg 
jou, my dear uncle, if you should have time, to recommend any work which 
will meet my case; and also give me any light, by which I may conscien- 
tiou.sly remain in the Protestant Episcopal Church — a Church which I have 
so much loved and honoured. Excuse my troubling you with this letter. It 
is no less painful to me than it can prove to you. But it is my duty, and duty 
must be done. ' Very affectionately yours, 

" ' Benjamin Dayis Winslovv.' " 

" In a moment, I saw his position. I saw that to refer him to books, while 
Jesuit expositors had his confidence, was vain. I saw that he was not access- 
ible to reason. I saw that to remain at Cambridge, was to rush, and that at 
once, into the gulpli that yawned for him. The image that possessed my mind 
at once, and haunted it, by day and night, for weeks and months, and has not 
jet lost all its vividness, was the poor bird, charmed by the rattle-snake, and 



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" From October, 1835, to June, 1837, he was a member of the 
General Theological Seminary. Of his standing there, it is 
enough to use the language of a fellow student, who loved him 
living, and laments him dead, that ^he embodied in his life and 

shooting vritli a desperate impulse into his sangainarv jaws. I resolved, if 
there was help in God, to save him ; and, by the help of God, I did. I wrote 
to him briefly, but peremptorily, to come at once to me. That the subject was 
of the utmost moment. That no correspondence at a distance could meet its 
requirements. That it called for time and thought, and careful study of 
authorities, without the bias of an overruling influence on either side. That 
Burlington was a calm, sequestered place. That my books were at his service. 
That he should investigate the subject thoroughly. That he should follow 
implicity, wherever that investigation, guided by the promised Holy One, 
should lead. If it lead to Kome, he should go. If, convinced himself, he 
could convince me, I would go with him. If conviction failed, his place was 
where the providence of God had set him. I used no word of argument, and 
I referred to no authority against the Eomish claim : for I felt sure, that they 
Avho had so far secitred him, would have access to my letters. I told him tO' 
go at once to the President. To say that I had need for him ; and that he 
must rely on my character that the occasion was sufEcient, without a statement 
of the reasons. He went to the President. At first, he refused permission. 
Then he sent for him, and told him, that on further consideration, he felt 
assured my reasons must be good ; and granted leave of absence. As I antici- 
pated, so it was. My letter was shown to his seducers. Every argument, that 
Eomish craft could suggest, was used, to prevent, or to delay, his coming. 
One of them was going on soon, and would accompany him. If he went, he 
must take letters to the communion in Philadelphia. At least, he must take 
books. But it was all in vain. The principle of loyalty was in him more 
strongly than in any man I ever knew : and knowing that his allegiance was to 
me, to me he came. 

Never shall I forget the day of his arrival, nor the peculiar expression with 
which he came to me. I saw that he was wrought up to the highest pitch, and that 
the first thing for him was to rest. Day alter day he sought to engage me in 
the topic, and day after day I avoided it. At last, when he became solicitous to 
liear my views, I told him, no ; he was to make out his own case. I gave him 
then, on a small slip of paper — I have it now — a single point [it was this : — The 
Papal Supremacy ; i. Can the primacy of Peter in authority and power be 
established ? ii. If established, can it be shown that it was to be transmitted? 
iii. If designed to be transmitted, can it be proved to appertain to the Bishop 
of Rome ? The appeal to be, 1, to Scripture ; 2, to ancient authors] in the 
great controversy between the Truth and Eome ; and told him to go into 
my Library, and satisfy himself : when that was mastered, he should have 
the next. He spent five weeks with me. I never dictated to him even the 
shadow of an opinion. He traced the truth up to its first fountains. He 
looked for Popery in Holy Scripture and ancient authors ; and it was not 
there. He perfectlv satisfied himself that the claims of Eome were arrogant 
and unfounded. He settled perfectly in the conviction, that the Church of 
his choice was a true and living branch of the Catholic Chttrch of Christ. 
And he went forward, from that moment, increasing in wisdom and in stature, 
through the grace of her communion; and growing in knowledge and in 
virtue, by the wholesome nutriment of her divine instructions. Never did he 
cease to rejoice, that He had taken him from the mire and clay, and set his 
feet upon a rock, and ordered his goings. Never did he speak of that event- 
ful moment of his life, but Avith the devoutest gratitude to Hiai, who had. 
delivered him from the snare of the fowler. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



457 



conversation, above all men that he had ever known, the system 
and the spirit of the Church/ After this, he spent a year at 
Burlington, pursuing his theological studies, and dignifying 
with pastoral assiduity and usefulness the humble (but as he, 
with the primitive Church, regarded it, the most serviceable, 
and therefore honourable,) office of Catechist. Of his devotion 
to the sick, and poor, and afflicted, in the parish, the memory 
will never fail. He never spared himself, and was never w^ary 
in the service of the needy and distressed. He travelled miles, 
at night, and through storms, to carry comforts or refreshments 
to the sick and dying. He w^ould rise from his bed at midnight, 
that he might assist in turning a poor, bed-ridden boy. He was 
the almoner of the parish ; and never rested in the wildest storms 
of winter, till he knew that there was fuel in the house of every 
poor old woman. Meanwhile he was as a student most assiduous 
and profitable. A venerable presbyter, familiar, for forty years^ 
with examinations for orders, declared his, the very best he ever 
attended.'^ 

THE POETIC TALENT OF MR. WIN'SLOW^ 

The poetic talent/' writes Bishop Doane, " which" Mr. 
Winslow ^' before his ordination had exercised to the delight 
and admiration of the Church, he sacredly repressed, upon his 
entrance to the holy office.^'" From the collection of his poems 
published by the Bishop in 1841 — under the title "The True 
Catholic Churchman, in his Life and in his Death'' — we give 
place to three. 

THE CROSS. 

When we rise, the Cro>s 5 %yhen we lie dowiij tne Cross | in our thoughts, 
the Cross ; in our studies, the Cross ; every where and at every time, the Cross,. 
— shining more glorious than the sun."— *Si. Chrysostom. 

The pross, the Cross ! Oh, bid it rise 

Mid clouds about it curled. 
In bold relief against the skies. 

Beheld by all the world ; 



" I have put this narrative on record here, as part of the true history of the 
lamented subject of this memoir, on the one hand, that it may correct their 
error, who underrate the dangerous attraction of the Church of Eome ; and on 
the other, that it may reprove their calumny, who connect the teachings of 
the Catholic Church of Christ with the corruptions of the Papal schism." — 
Sermons and Remains of B. D. Window, by Bishop Doane, pp. 57-61. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



A sign to myriads far and wide, 

On every holy fane, 
Meet emblem of the Crucified 

For our transgressions slain. 

The Cross, the Cross ! with solemn vow 

And fervent prayer to bless, 
Upon the new born infant's brow 

The hallowed seal impress ; 
A token f that in coming years, 

All else esteem'd but loss, 
He will press on through foes and fears, 

The soldier of the Cross. 

The Cross, the Cross ! upon the heart 

Oh ! seal the signet well. 
An amulet against each art 

And stratagem of hell ; 
A hope, when other hopes shall cease, 

And worth all hopes beside, — 
The Christian's blessedness and peace. 

His joy and only pride, j 

The Cross ! the Cross ! ye heralds blest 

AVho in the saving name. 
Go forth to lands with sin opprest, 

The Cross of Christ proclaim ! 
And so, mid idols lifted high, 

In truth and love reveal' d. 
It may be seen by every eye, 

And stricken souls be heal'd. | 

The Cross ! dear Church, the woi'ld is dark. 

And wrapt in shades of night, — 
Yet, lift but up within thy ark 

This source of living light. 
This emblem of our heavenly birth 

And claim to things divine, — 
So thou shalt go through all the earth, 

And conquer in this sign. j| 



THE CHUECIT. 

"'•'To whom should we go ? Thou hast the words of eternal life." 

Mother ! I am sometimes told 

By the wanderers in the dark, 
Fleeing from thy ancient fold, 

I must seek some newer ark. 



t See Baptismal office. 

X God forbid that I should glory, save in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
—St. Paul 

I As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of 
Man be lifted up, that whosoever believelh in him shall not perish, but have 
everlasting life. — Jesus Christ. 

II In hoc signo vincis. The inscription on the Cross which appeared to 
Constantine. 



IN BUHLINGTOX, 



459 



Thou art worn, they say, with years, 
Quench'd the lustre of thine eye. 

Whence no blessed beam appears 
Bright with radiance from on high. 

Mother ! then I humbly say 

To the blinded sons of strife, 
Whither shall I go away ? 

She hath precious words of life. 
She hath watched with tender care, 

Led me through life's thorny ways, 
Taught me many a hallowed prayer, 

Many a fervent hymn of praise. 

Weeping by the blood-stain'd Cross, 

She hath whisper'd at my side. 
Son ! count ev'rything but dross. 

So thou win the Lamb who died ! 
She Avill guide me o'er the wave, 

Pointing to the rich reward ; 
Then at last beyond tlie grave, 

Give me, faithful, to her Lord. 

Mother ! can I ever turn 

From thy home, thy peaceful ark, 
Where the lights celestial burn, 

When all else beside is dark ? 
Eather, those who turn away 

Let me seek with love to win, 
Till Christ's scatter'd sheep astray 

To thy fold are gather'd in. 



LOA^E THEE TOO WELL. 
Composed on being warned not to love the Church too well. 
(a fact.) 

Love thee too well, dear mother Church ! 

And can it ever be? 
Love thee too well, my Saviour's bride, 
For whom he stoop'd to earth, and died 

In mortal agony ? 

Love thee too well, who, when these feet 

Life's early pathway's trod, 
Hover'dst about my cradle bed. 
And onward thence my soul liast led, 

To seek the peace of God ! 

Love the too well ! it could not be: 

For can 1 e'er repay. 
The love which in thy bosom glow'd, 
And blessings day by day bestow'd, 

To light me on my way ? 



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At yonder consecrated fount 

TJuat love was first reveal'd ; 
There shelter'd in thy tender arms, 
My brow was laved with holy charms — 

With Heaven's own signet seal'd. 

Nor ended then thy watchful care, 

But still thou led'st me on, 
And bad' St me at the chancel bow, 
And kneeling there, myself avow 

God's steadfast champion. 

And ever as the season comes, 

My steps still there are led, 
Where thou, with all a mother's care, 
Dost for thy children's wants prepare 

The heaven-descended bread. 

Thou early taught' st my infant lips 
Thy strains of prayer and praise ; 

And rais'dst my heart from earthly toys, 

To look for higher, holier joys, 
By thy celestial lays. 

And as the rolling year glides on, 

With thee I duly hie. 
To see my Lord at Bethlehem, 
Or crown'd with thorny diadem, 

On gloomy Calvary ; 

Or view him in the garden tomb, 

Secured by seal and stone ; 
Or mark him rend death's icy chain, 
And rising upward, mount again 

His everlasting throne. 

Untaught by thy maternal love, 
Where would this soul have been ? 

O'er schism's troubled billows tost, 

Or 'chance, alas ! for ever lost 
In the dark gulf of sin. 

Then, can I love thee e'er too well, 

Who so hast loved me? 
Xo ! let the moments of my life 
With deep affection all be rife. 

And tender love to thee. 

Let all my powers, though weak and frail, 

Be ever wholly thine ; 
Since not a gift which man can bring, 
Would be too rich an offering, 

To proffer at thy shrine. 

Keep me, O keep me, mother, then, 

With thy unchanging love : 
And when earth's final hour has come, 
Conduct me to thy Master's home, 

In brighter worlds above. 



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461 



THE FIXAXCIAL COXDITIOX OF THE CHUECH. 

^'The Committee appointed to report on the means, liabilities 
and expenditures of St. Mary's Cbarch, offer the following, as 
the result of their examinations : 

"1st. As to the possessions of the Church, they consist of two 
kinds — real and personal. As the present object or enquiry, 
refers to income, the committee will name that part of the for- 
mer only, which produces revenue, to wit. The lots on the Point, 
now in the tenure of Samuel R. Gummere, containing about 
twelve acres, which were divided into building lots in 1835, of 
25 feet front each, and offered for sale in August of that year, a 
few of which only were sold, in consequence, we believe of the 
tenant's opposition and protest. Without stopping to state par- 
ticulars, it w^ill be sufficient to say that Mr. Gummere still holds 
possession of the property, and will most likely continue to do 
so till March, 1840, the end of his pretended lease, at the rent 
of 60 dollars a year; not a cent of which has been paid, since 
the lease began, to wit, March 1835. 

"A Lot back of the Parsonage, containing about 3 acres rented 
to David Allen, at 25 dollars a year, but now, in the occupancy, 
the committee believe, of Mr. Binnev. The Bent is paid up 
faithfully. 

''The Academy, two rooms on the lower story, rent for 50 dol- 
lars a year — one, to the Bector, and the other to the Messrs. 
Perkins for a place of instruction. 

'^A Lot on the extreme east point of Pearl street, on which 
James Horn has built a house, containing 100 feet on that street 
running down to low water mark. This is a very important lot, 
being the only outlet to the Delaware for all the Church prop- 
erty. The rent is but three dollars a year, and Horn has no 
claim upon it, either in Law or equity, nor can he pretend to 
have any except as a tenant at will. 

" Passing over to the creek, the Church owns, without dispute, 
the strip of land, on. the East of the road, up to the dam, and 
all the way down to low water mark which has been rented as 
follows, since 1835 — 

Budd Sterling, 100 feet more or less ^10 a year. 



''On Yansciver's part, there are some old buildings which 
belong to the tenant, and by agreement, may be removed at 
his pleasure ; he paying the stipulated rent until such time. 
This ends the real estate. The personal consists of two bonds, 



David A^ansciver, 
Sam^ W Earl, 
Gaskill & Son, 



100 
100 
100 



do 
do 
do 



do 
do 
do 



10 do 
10 do 
10 do 



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one of Isaac Lippincott's for $1600, & the other of Joseph 
HalFs for §600, both at 6 per cent, and well secured, on bond 
and mortgage. The income will stand thus : — 

Real Estate ,....$178 a year 

Personal do 132 do 



$310 

The committee will now briefly state the revenue of the 
Church from other sources, premising that it will be made in 
round numbers — for 12 months ending Oct 1^* 
Income before mentioned from Real and personal Estate. $310 

Pew Rents 650 

Penny Collections 52 

Breaking ground 25 



$1037 

It seems then, that the whole receipts are a little over one 
thousand dollars, — but it must be recollected that this is only 
on paper. The Question is, does that sum flow into the treas- 
ury every year ? It certainly does not — as the Committee have 
already shown — in the case of Mr. Gum mere at least, and per- 
haps some others. It is the opinion of the Committee, founded 
on unquestionable data, that if the holder of the lots on the 
point, had acted as he should have done, at the time of the sale 
in 1835, that the Church would now be in possession of an 
ample income. It is well known that buyers would nat venture 
their money with the almost certain expectation of having to 
contend in law with the occupant. Since then the spirit of the 
times has gone out ; and now, even if the Church were in posses- 
sion of the lots, it is extremely questionable whether a sale 
could be made at anything like a fair price. Independent how- 
ever of this view of the matter, there is another, which regards 
the renting of the lots, the interests of the Church have been 
greatly injured in that respect by the course of conduct pursued 
by the present tenant, in holding the property in defiance of 
right — instead of $60, more than double that sum, might have 
been had, from responsible and punctual persons ; and this not 
a mere matter of opinion, but a fact known probably to other 
members of the Yestry. Without pursuing this matter farther, 
the Committee will proceed to give a view of the expenditures 
of the Church; and first, they will inform the Yestry, that the 
Church owes to the Episcopal Convention of the diocese of New 
Jersey, 1200, dollars on bond, the interest of which has not 



IN BUKLINGTOX. 463 

been paid, since the money was borrowed, namely in Jnly, 1835, 
amounting now, to nearly 200 dols. This money was borrowed 
under the authority of the Church, as will appear on reference 
to the proceedings of the Vestry, for the purpose of completing 
the alterations then being made. The interest at least should be 
paid ; Time does not obliterate, but on the contrary augments 
it. It becomes the Vestry then, to seek out some means to wipe 
off the growing burthen, and that speedily. — 

$1200, at 6 per cent $72 

Sector's Salary 700 

Sexton's §75 & assistant's §25 100 

Fuel 50 

Candles & oil 50 

Incidental Expenses 75 

Organ Boy 5 



$1052 

'^It will be noticed, that this estimate sets forth, only the stated 
or ordinary expenditures of the Vestry, and does not by any 
means include the numerous other expenses which are constantly 
being incurred, and which amount, take one year with another^ 
to $50 or more. But without regarding these for the present, 
it would seem, that the regular annual charge, exceeds that of 
the annual income by $15, and this too, presuming that every 
cent of the income is collected, which is far from being the fact. 

The Committee have, in the course of this report adverted to 
the necessity of paying off the interest on the bond of $1200, 
due the diocese; they again more emphatically, call the atten- 
tion of the Vestry to that matter, as being of primary import- 
ance and consequence to both parties, but more particularly so 
to those to whom the money is due. It may be asked why 
enjoin a thing, which, under present circumstances seems im- 
practicable ? In reply the Committee would say, that in their 
opinion, silence on their part, would have been a dereliction of 
duty, in so vital a matter. As regards that part of the Com- 
mittee's enquiry which embraces the actual state of the accounts, 
since the last settlement, they beg the indtilgence of the Vestry j. 
'till another meeting. 

"All of which is Respectfully submitted 

John Thomas Newtox 1 -u 
-James H.Sterling | 

"Dec. 16th, 1837. 

— Original in Parish Archives,. 



464 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



BISHOP DOAXE OX DR. WHAETOX's ACCOUXTS. 

"Messrs. J. H. Sterling & J. T. Xewton, AVardens of St. 
Mary^s Church, 

" Dear friexds, — I enclose to you, in your capacity as a 
Committee on the Accounts of St. Mary's Church, the final account 
of Dr. AYharton's estate ; from which it will appear that there 
is a balance due me from the Church, as Residuary Legatee, of 
§493. 34J, which should appear in your statement ; I having 
overpaid for the use of the Church so much, 

" Very truly your friend & servant, 

'^G. ^y. doaxe. 

"St. Mary's Parsonage, 10 Jan., 1838." 

ST. Mary's hall rapidly ixcreased. 
" The Institution for Female Education on Christian Princi- 
ciples, St. Mary's Hall, Burlington, notwithstanding the disas- 
trous period at which it was commenced, has constantly and 
rapidly increased, even beyond the most sanguine expectations 
of its friends. It numbers at present fifty boarders and thirteen 
day scholars. Of the former, one in every ten, the daughter of 
a Clergyman deceased, or in necessitous circumstances, is re- 
ceived and educated without charge. The members of the 
household are all parishioners of St. Mary's Church, and the 
daily religious instruction is in strict accordance with the 
principles and institutions of the Church." — Episcopal Address. 

the rev. bexjamix dayis wixslow, assistaxt. 

The Rev. Benjamin Davis Winslow was ordained Deacon in 
St. Mary's Church, June 3d, 1838, and immediately became 
Assistant to the Rt. Rev. the Rector of the Parish. 

The neighbouring parish of St. Stephen's, Willingborough, 
being vacant, he supplied it one half of each Lord's day, for 
many months. The present writer," says Bishop Doane, 
^^has heard but very few sermons that were superior to his ; and 
the Hon. Horace Binney, a summer parishioner of St. Mary's 
Church, has often said, that he had heard none such from a young 
man. But far beyond even his' ripeness as a scholar, and his 
manliness as a preacher, was the devotion of his unfailing benev- 
olence. He not only continued, but increased, his labours among 



IN BURLINGTON. 



465 



the poor and the afflicted. It was his highest pleasure — more 
than his meat and drink — ^ to search for the sick, poor and im- 
potent people of the parish, to intimate their estates, names and 
places where they dwell, unto the Curate, that by his exhorta- 
tion they might be relieved with the alms of the parish- 
ioners or others;' and it was partly from these peculiar duties 
of the office, and partly from his surpassing modesty, that he 
lingered in spirit in the diaconate, and left it with a feeling of 
reluctance. He would carry any burden, to any distance, if it 
ministered to comfort. He walked miles to watch with a very 
sick woman. And once, when he found that the feelings of the 
family would otherwise be hurt, he stole away, when he was 
sick enough to be in bed, to sit all night by the corpse of a 
negro boy. In him, the gift of mercy proved ' twice blessed.' 
There was not a citizen of Burlington that did not respect and 
desire to serve him." — Remains of B. D, Winsloiu, jyp. 74, 75. 

A FOXT GIYEX BY THE RECTOE. 

At a meeting of the Yestry held Dec. 28th, 1838, "the Eector 
asked the Vestry's acceptance, as a Christmas gift, of the Bap- 
tismal Font, which he has placed in the Chancel for the use of 
the Church. 

"He also asked permission, if Mrs. Bradford shall consent, to 
have the Silver Bowl presented by her late venerable father, the 
Hon. Elias Boudixot, and long used in the Church for the 
baptismal water, converted into a bason for the use of the Altar, 
in collecting the alms and offerings of the people. 

" Whereupon, On motion of Capt. Newton, 

"Voted, That the Vestry accept, with the most grateful 
acknowledgments on their part, the Eector's beautiful and val- 
uable present, and accede to the proposition, embraced in the last 
part of his communication. 

" On motion, Capt. Newton and Mr. Wilson were appointed 
a committee to confer with Mrs. Bradford, in relation to the 
proposition embraced in the Rector's communication ; and they 
were requested, at the same time, to convey to her the tlianks 
of the Vestry for her valuable present of a Chair for the Chan- 
cel, made some time since." 

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46G 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



THANKS TO MRS. BEADFORD, FOR THE BISHOP's CHAIR. 

BarlingtoDj X. Jersey, 
December 31st, 1838. 
''Dear Madam, — It is our pleasing lot to have been appointed 
a Committee by the Wardens & Vestry of St. Mary's Church 
to tender you their thanks for the very acceptable, splendid, and 
appropriate jDresent of the Chair which now graces, and enriches 
its Chancel, and at the same time beg leave to express the regret 
that this demonstration of their gratitude, should have been 
tendered at so late a period ; but we ask, dear Madam, your 
acceptance of it now; and at the same time the compliments of 
the season from your 

" Most obt. servts. and friends, 
" Walter Wilsox, 
" JoHx Thomas Xewtox, 

" Committee, 

Mrs. Susan Y. Bradford, 

Burlington, X. Jersey." 



the baptismal bowl made i^'to ax alms baso^t. 
•'At a Yestry meeting held Jan. 1-lth, 1839, the Committee 
appointed to wait on Mrs. Bradford reported that they had 
attended to that duty, and that Mrs. Bradford expressed her 
entire willingness to accede to the proposition in relation to the 
bowl. 

" On motion, Mr. Wilson and Capt. Xewton were appointed 
a committee to have the bowl made into a plate for the Altar. ''y 

iThe two alms plates before mentioned in these pages, one from the silver 
of Mrs. Peirce, and the other from the howl of Dr. Boudinot^ were made the 
same vear, as the following bill shows : 

-Philad'a, Sept. 26, 183&. 

" St. Mary's Church, Burlington, Dr., 

" To Fletcher & Bennett, 
" For making 2 Silver Plates for Communion, weighing 35 oz. 

2 dwts., Os S30.00 

" For Engraving Inscription, & Cross, on both 7.65 

§37.65 

" Credit by IS dwt. Silver 1.15 

836.50 

" Eec'd pavment in full, 
" Oct. 5, 1839. ' Fletcher & Bexxett."' 



IN BURLINGTON. 467 



BISHOP DELAXCEY PEESENT AT THE COXVENTION. 

May 29th, 1839. The 56th annual Convention was held in 
St. Mary^s Church. A charge to the Clergy was delivered by 
the Bishop ; after which the Holy Communion was administered 
by him, assisted by the Rt. Rev. William H. DeLancey, D. D., 
Bishop of Western New York, the Rev. Edmund D. Barry, 
D. D., and the Rev. George Y. Morehouse. 

The Bishop then took the Chair, and called the Convention 
to order ; and having stated that the Rt. Rev. Dr. DeLancey 
was present, it was, on motion, resolved, that the Rt. Rev. the 
Bishop of Western New York be invited to an honorary seat in 
this Convention. The Rev. Messrs. Croes and Ward were 
appointed a Committee to conduct Bishop DeLancey f to the 
seat provided for him, on the right hand of the Bishop, 

DEATH AND BURIAL OF EEV. MR. WINSLOW. 

"It w^as in the midst of such usefulness, [see p. 464,] and in the 
bloom of domestic happiness, with a wife of less than a year beside 
him, that the keen eye of science detected, in the hidden malady 
which had distressed him [Mr. Winslow] for some months, the 
seeds of certain death. * * When he was 

told that all was given up by his physicians, not a feature 
of his countenance was changed. ' God's will be done ! ' was 
the immediate and becoming expression. Nay, if he might but 
be prepared, he would add, ' Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly ! ' 
All his arrangements were made to the most minute detail ; *as 
calmly,' one well remarked, ' as if he were going on a journey.' 
He spoke to all his friends, of his decease, with the serenity of 
an old saint. All he w^as anxious for, he said, was for his sins. 

t Only twenty days before— on the Feast of the Ascension, May 9th, 1839— 
in St. Peter's Church, Auburn, N. Y., the Kev. Dr. DeLancey was consecrated 
as the first Bishop of the new Diocese of Western New York. On the evening 
preceding that solemnity Bishop Doane preached on ''The Inherited Deprav- 
ity of Man." By request, the sermon was published ; and in a prefatory 
note, the Bishop says: "This discourse was one of a course of Lent Lectures, 
on the Fifty-first Psalm, delivered by the Author, in his parish Church of 
St. Mary's, Burlington. Being called upon, unexpectedly, to preach, in the 
presence of the Convention of the Diocese of Western New York, at Auburn, 
when recently there to assist in the Consecration of his esteemed friend and 
brother, the Bishop elect of that Diocese, it was taken for that occasion, merely 
as the simple exposition of a fundamental truth." 



468 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Them, he humbly trusted, he might cast, by faith, upon the 
bleeding Cross. He was from his childhood the most conscien- 
tious of beings. And, though, to all who knew him, his life 
seemed wrought, through grace, to the highest point of excel- 
lence attainable to man, to him, he said, it all seemed sinful. 
Nevertheless, he rested on the atonement by Christ Jesus ; and 
he desired his dying testimony to be recorded to the sufficiency 
and power of those principles and institutions, in which, as a 
Catholic Churchman, he had lived, and hoped to die. * * 
On the day before his death, he spoke strongly of the entire 
sufficiency, for all the purposes of devotion, in every condition of 
life, of the Book of Common Prayer. He had the satisfaction 
to know that Sprayer had been made to God for him continu- 
ally,' in his parish Church for many weeks; as in others in the 
diocese. * As he lay serene and still, he gently 

raised his right hand, then as cold as stone, and traced upon his 
forehead, in silence and solemnity, the sign of the blessed Cross. 
We understood the omen. He was retracing his baptismal 
sign. He was renewing his baptismal dedication. He was 
confessing the Crucified once more before men. He was sealing 
himself for the sepulchre. * * He gradually sunk, 
breathed more and more faintly, and surrendered up his spirit 
to the God who gave it, so quietly that his latest breath could 
not be distinguished. ' So He giveth his beloved sleep.' 

His funeral was attended on Saturday morning, in St. Mary's 
Church ; the Bishop of the diocese, as he had requested, scarcely 
performing the funeral service. After which he was borne to 
the grave by his sorrowing brethren, and followed by a weeping 
community. His funeral sermon was to have been preached on 
Sunday morning : but was deferred until the afternoon, at the 
instance of the Presbyterian minister; who, in the name of his 
own congregation, and those of the Baptists and Methodists, 
requested that arrangement in a most truly Christian letter : f 

t" Eight Keverend and Dear Sir: 

"You are aware of the deep sympathy Qf all denominations of Christians, 
in the present afHiction of your family and Church. The departure of Wins- 
low, has spread a gloom over the community, of which he was a useful and 
cherished member. For one, I loved and honoured him for his Christian 



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469 



* * And, notwithstanding the violence of the storm, 
the Church was filled to overflowing. So easy is it to be a 
decided and consistent Churchman ; and yet, by a holy life and 
charitable conversation, secure the universal favour." — Remains 
of B. D, WinsloiDj pp. 75-79. 

OBITUAEY NOTICE. 

'^Died, at St. Mary's Cottage, Green Bank, Burlington, New 
Jersey, on Thursday morning, November 21, the Rev. Benja- 
MIX Davis Winslow, Assistant to the Rector of St. Mary's 
Church, in the 25th year of his age. A more untimely death 
than this, as men account of time, has seldom been recorded. 
But He who ^ doeth all things well ' hath put the times and the 
seasons in his own power: and, since the blessed Son of God, when 
he became incarnate for our sins, was contented not to know 



zeal and integrity; and I but express the opinion of the multitude, in this 
testimony to his virtuous character. 

"It has been reported that the funeral sermon is to be preached to-morrow 
morning; and it is the object of this note humbly to suggest whether you 
might not yield to the desire of many from other denominations, and postpone 
it till the afternoon. The Methodists and Baptists have no service at that 
time; and we would love to transfer our worship to the solemnities of your 
own sanctuary. 

"In humbly making this proposal, I am not aware how far the expectation 
of your own congregation (which is of course to be specially consulted,) would 
be grieved and disappointed by any postponement. And there may be other 
reasons, adverse to granting our desires, of which you yourself are the sole 
judge. But, if in any way, it would be consistent with the arrangements of 
the Sabbath to allow very many others to unite in their expressions interest 
and sympathy, we would all esteem it a favour. At the same time, I repeat, 
that a denial would be considered as springing from the very best of reasons. 
" With great regard and respect, yours, 

" OORTLANDT VaN EeNSSELAER." 

"Burlington, Saturday morning." 

"My Very Kixb Friend: 

"I have received your most Christian note; and hasten to say, that your 
request shall be complied with. It was my purpose to attempt to pay the 
tribute of a bleeding heart to my dear child, to-morrow morning ; and it is 
more usual with us to do so. But I most cheerfully adopt the arrangement 
you so considerately suggest; and to whicli every consideration, but that of 
absolute duty, should have been yielded, without a moment's hesitation. 
Accept my cordial thanks for the manner in which you have spoken of my 
beloved son and brother, to whose rare Christian graces you do but justice; 
and believe me, most afiectionately, and faithfully, your friend, 

" George W. Doane." 

" Riverside, Saturday morning." 



470 HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH 



either the day or the hour, it becomes us reverently to submit 
assured that though we know not now, we shall know hereafter. 
Another and a fuller opportunity will be embraced to turn to 
their just account the eminent virtues of this young saint. The 
present writer never knew a man whose character could be 
adopted, to depict more clearly and more fully the true cath- 
olic CHURCHMAX, IN HIS LIFE, AND IN HIS DEATH : and tO 

that pious duty, if it please God to give him time and strength, 
he proposes to devote himself, as the best service he can render 
to the Church, of which the beloved Winslow, even at his years, 
was a pillar and an ornament. For the present, let it suffice, 
with a bleeding heart and a trembling hand, to twine around 
this polished shaft in our sanctuary — fallen, indeed, yet match- 
less in its beauty — a few funereal flowers, the tribute of true love 
to his beloved and imperishable memory." 

THE rector's CHRISTMAS PASTORAL. 

^'Jb the Parishioners of St. Mary^s Church: 

^' Brethren Beloved in the Lord, The cheerful Christ- 
mas season comes to us, this year, in clouds. On our most holy 
places, the habiliments of woe have but just yielded to the 
garments of rejoicing. With the myrtle, and the laurel, and 
the box, that testify our gratitude and gladness for a Redeemer 
born, there is a mingling of funereal cypress. A new grave 
garners, till the resurrection morning, the precious dust of the 
beloved Winslow. What then ? Shall we not rejoice at ' the 
good tidings of great joy,^ that ' unto us is born, this day, in 
the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord?' ^ Oh, 
say not so,' said he, in his last days, to one, who spoke of having 
a gloomy Christmas, on account of his decease — ^Oh, say not 
so, but think what we should all be, but for the birth which 
Christmas-day commemorates ! ' Beloved, it is even so. The 
Christian's joy must always be ' with trembling.' The Chris- 
tian's sorrow can never be ' without hope.' 'And this alternation 
of joy and sorrow ; ' as one has beautifully said, ' of joy not 
unsubdued, and sorrow not unmitigated, is characteristic of that 
divine system, through which the Church would train her 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



471 



children for heaven. Each week has its Fast^ as well as its 
Feast ; as if to teach us that would we rise with Christ, we must 
also suffer with Him. AVe are ushered, through Vigils, into 
Festivals; and are moulded into fitness for our Easter joy, by 
the penitential discipline of Lent. Our joy is never all joyful, 
neither is our sorrow all sorrowful. AVe sorrow, as having hope 
elsewhere ; and rejoice, as still in the body. Such is the 
Churches portion, while militant in the world. Soon the world 
shall melt away from around her; then shall she rejoice witliout 
sorrowing.' That in that blessed season of the Church's joy. 
we may all rejoice through grace, ^ with joy unspeakable and 
full of glory,' devoutly prays your friend and Christian Pastor. 

^^GeoeCxE ^y. DOAXE." 
^'Riverside, St. Thomas' Day, 1839." 



THE GEAYE OF THE EEV. ME. WIXSLOW. 

The spot where Mr. AYinslow's remains repose, is marked 
with a large headstone, having a cross, with the sacred mono- 
gram, at the top, and under it these words : 

Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Benjamin Davis Winslow, 
A. M., assistant to the Rector of St. Mary's Church, who died 
Xov. 21, MDCCCXXXIX, in the twenty-fifth year of his age, 
* looking unto Jesus.' The Bishop of Xew Jersey, to whom he 
was as a son, thus sorrows for him, as a father ; but not as they 
who have no hope ; since them who sleep in Jesus, will God 
bring with him." f 



J)EATH OF A STUDENT IX THEOLOGY. 



About the middle of the north side, of St. Mary's Church- 
yard, there is a horizontal slab, on which we read: "Beneath 

fin the stained glass window, on the South side of the choir, in the chancel 
of the new St. Marv's Church, we read : 



IX MEMORIAM Bev. 

JIujus Eccleske Rectorem cidju 



Benjamin Davis Winsloic, A. 31. 
vantls, A. D. MDCCCXXXIX. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



this stone rest the_^mortal remains of James C. Hulme, whose- 
redeemed spirit entered into glory FebrLiary 29th^ 1840. He 
was born in Burlington, N. J., Septr. 30th, 1809. Being born 
again through the grace of God, he devoted himself to the Min- 
istry of the Gospel in the Protestant Episcopal Church. In his 
education for this purpose he was a graduate of the University 
of Pennsylvania, and a student in the Theological Seminary of 
Virginia ; but before his preparation for an earthly ministry 
was finished, God called him to minister in the Church above. 
Meekness and gentleness, the fruits of spiritual piety, combined 
to render him attractive to the many friends, whose love encom- 
passed him on earth, and to evince his meetness for the king- 
dom of God, whither he has gone. His hope rested upon the 
perfect obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom being jus- 
tified by faith he had peace with God. 'Thou wilt keep him 
in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he- 
trusteth in thee.' Isaiah xxvi., 3.'^ 

BISHOP DOAXE ACCEPTS AX IXVITATIOX TO VISIT EXGLAXD. 

" When the act of the British parliament was passed, in 1786,, 
authorizing the Archbishop of Canterbury to consecrate Bishops 
for the United States of America, without the usual oaths of 
supremacy and obedience, it was expressly provided that no per- 
sons receiving consecration by virtue of that Act, or receiving 
consecration or ordination from those consecrated under it, 
should be permitted to officiate within the jurisdiction of the 
Church of Eno^land. AVhatever had been the oris^inal occasion 
for any such restriction had, in the judgment of all, long since 
ceased to exist ; and those whose ofiice or whose relations made 
them familiar with its operation in the prevention of catholic 
intercourse, and in the seeming disparagement of the Orders of 
a sister Church, had long desired its removal. It was not until 
the last year that this result, chiefly through the agency of the 
present venerable Primate, t was happily accomplished. 

''The first moment of the repeal of these disabilities was 
embraced by the author's kind and zealous friend, the Vicar of 

T The 'Most Eeverend William Howley, D. D., Lord Arclibishop of Canter- 
bury. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



473' 



Leeds, to urge his visitiDg his brethren of the Church of Eng- 
land ; and the approaching consecration of the magnificent par- 
ish Church, which, chiefly through his exertions, has the just 
repute of being the noblest sacred structure reared in modern 
times, in England, was eloquently pressed upon him as the fit 
occasion. Objectionable as the Act must be regarded in some 
of its details, it seemed a Catholic duty to accept a Catholic 
overture in a Catholic spirit; and the decision to accept the 
invitation of the Vicar of Leeds, t cordially approved as it was 
by his most excellent Diocesan, was sent to him by the return 
of mail." — Introduction to Bp. Doaneh Sermons, London, 1842. 

ACTIOX OF THE COXVEXTIOX OS THE BISHOP's PROPOSED 

ABSENCE. 

At the annual Convention, held in St. Mary's, Btu'lington,. 
May 26th and 27th, 1841, during the proceedings of the second 
day, the Bishop having called the Rev. Dr. Barry to the Chair, 
retired, when the following resolutions relative to the departure 
of the Bishop of the diocese on a visit to Europe, were presented 
by Charles King, Esq., and unanimously adopted : 

" Resolved, — That this Convention have heard with mingled 
feelings of gratification and regret, that the Bishop of this 
diocese is about to separate himself from it by a brief absence ; 
gratification, that the intercourse between the Church in Eng- 
land and that in America, so long interrupted by restrictions of 
state policy, will be renewed, by his visit, in strict accordance 
with Catholic principles and ancient usage ; regret, that even in 
such a cause, and with such an object, the Diocese is to be 
deprived for a time of his labours and example — labours and 
example directed by a mind so enlightened, a heart so sound,, 
and a zeal and an ability so pre-eminent and successful. 

Besohed, — That we humbly and confidently trust that the 
renewal of friendly intercourse between the branches of the 
Church Catholic in England and America, under auspices like 
the present, will contribute by the Divine blessing, to extend 
and strengthen the holy influence of ^ Evangelical Truth and 
Apostolic Order ' in their purity and integrity ; and to revive 
that spirit in both Churches, which, in by-gone days, made our 
venerable Mother the glory of Christendom, the ' bulwark of 
the Reformation.' 



T The Eev. Walter Farquhar Hook. 



474 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Resolved, — That we hereby assure our Right Reverend 
Father in God, of our affectionate interest in his safety and wel- 
fare during his proposed voyage and visit; and that our prayers 
shall ascend to Him, in whose hands are all the corners of the 
earth, that He will be pleased to guide and guard him in his 
absence, and to restore him speedily to the flock over which the 
Chief Shepherd hatli set him, to the comfort and joy of us all." 

BISHOP DOANe's AVELOOME IX ENGLAND. 

'^The present writer, from the moment that he set his foot 
with the dear friend f who bore him company, upon the shore 
of England, has never ceased to rejoice in this determination ; 
and while his heart shall own a pulse, it cannot cease to swell, 
in grateful recollection of the love, which welcomed him to 
every altar, and to every hearth, as an own brother, of the blood, 
and in the faith. Every where, his office of a Bishop was the 
passport to all hearts. Every where, the kindred of the blood 
and of the faith, which binds the nations and the Churches both 
in one, was owned and marked by tearful eyes and quivering 
lips. Every where, the noble sentiment of the Archbishop of 
Canterbury, J that ^ the surest pledge of perpetual peace between 
the countries was to be found in their community of faith, and 
in the closeness of their ecclesiastical intercourse,' was cheered, 
with an enthusiasm which proved, beyond the power of w^ords, 
how deeply and intensely to the English heart still clings the 
love of brethren and of kindred. Nothing ever so acceptable 
to Englishmen, as the assurance, always received with acclama- 
tions which bore with them the whole fervent spirit, that the 
desire for peace and closest intercourse between the countries 
was perfectly reciprocal ; and that the true American, in its 
affections as in its descent, was still an English heart. 

"Where all, Archbishops and Bishops, Clergy and Laity, 
vied with each other in expressions of affection and respect, 

t The Eev. Benjamin I. Haight, Eector of All Saints' Church, New York, 
who accompanied the Author, at his request, was the constant partaker and 
promoter of his joy. 

X At the public distribution of prizes at King's College, London, by his 
Grace ; in reference to the Author's presence on that occasion, most kindly 
noticed by the Bishop of London. 



IN BURLINGTOX. 



475 



enumeration and discriniination were alike impracticable. The 
single measure of the offering was its opportunity ; and the 
sole regret, that the Author's dutiful necessity to be present at 
the General Convention of his Church, laid on such blessed 
opportunity so strait and strict a limit. * * 

Happier hours than the Author has thus passed, before the 
sacred altars, and beside the happy hearths, of this, his Father- 
land — and most especially in that dear Christian home from 
which these lines are dated — are not permitted to man. Blessed 
be God for the proof which they afford, that the one heart-bond 
which neither time nor distance can affect, is Catholic truth 
maintained in Catholic love ! " — Bp. Doane, at JBattersea Else, 
August 30th, 1841. 

THE bishop's address TO HIS COXYEXTIOX, AFTER HIS 

RETURN. 

" J/y Brethren of the Clergy and Laity : 

" The act in which you last engaged, was one of which my 
heart can never lose the record. At the call of catholic love, 
and for the testimony of catholic truth, I was about to visit the 
altars, where our fathers' faith was nourished, and to worship in 
her temples, whom their grateful hearts acknowledged, as the 
Mother Church. Unsolicited, and without the slightest ex- 
pectation on my part, your generous action made the case your 
own. You poured the feelings of your hearts out, in such 
words of manly tenderness, as melted mine. You caught, as at 
a glance, the aspect of my errand ; and in the fittest words gave 
it its true expression. You offered me the assurance of your 
affectionate interest and prayers. Under the protection of your 
faithful prayers, I went. In answer to them, met with every 
favour that heart could wish, or hand could give. And, by the 
blessing which they brought, am here with you again, to take 
^ sweet counsel together,' and to walk ^ in. the house of God, as 
friends.^ Fervently, for these His mercies, to me, the least 
worthy of his servants, do I pour out my thanks to Him. 
Earnestly do I beseech Him, that this His goodness may in- 
spire me with a better purpose to do all His will, and with the 



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needful grace ; kindle my heart with holy love, to be a whole 
burnt offering on His altar, and accept, for Jesus' sake, the 
worthless sacrifice ! 

Time would fail me, did I undertake to speak to you of the 
satisfactions of my catholic pilgrimage. There is the less occa- 
sion for it, as its chief results are made accessible in other ways. 
Suffice it to say, that in nothing was I disappointed. High as 
my thoughts had been of England, and the Church of England, 
they were more than realized. Whether our national or our ec- 
clesiastical descent be thought of, the daughter has good reason to 
thank God for such a mother. And for the sympathy, the 
kindness, the heart-love, which everywhere was lavished on me, 
as a brother of the blood, and Bishop of the Church, which 
makes us one, in nature, and in grace, no words of mine can 
tell them, as no change or chance can weaken their remem- 
brance. From the day when I first waited as in duty bound, 
upon the venerable Primate, and put into his hands the resolu- 
tions which afforded him so much delight ; until the day but 
one before my embarkation, when, with exulting heart, I 
stood before that mighty congregation,t and rehearsed your 
words of love, one theme fired every tongue, one thought filled 
every heart : the daughter land, the sister Church ; peace with 
the one, all blessings upon both ! Let us reciprocate the 
feeling. Let us return the prayer. The Apostolic Church of 
England, the bulwark of the Reformation, the glory of all 
lands, the nursing-mother of our own — peace be within ^ her 
^ walls,' ' prosperity within ' her ^ palaces ! ' — Episcopal Address,, 
May 26th, 1842. 

DAILY MORNING SERVICE. 

" There has been daily morning service in this Church, with 
evening service also on all the holy days, since Ash Wednesday. 
The offertory is made on every Lord's Day, and the public cat- 
echising is on the afternoon of the first in every month. The 
demand for additional accommodations has led to the appoint- 



f At the consecration of the Parish Church, at Leeds. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



477 



ment of a Committee of the Yestry to report a plan for the far- 
ther enlargement of the Church. In the month of November 
last, the Rev. Frederick Ogilby retired from the office of Assist- 
ant Minister of this Church, to enter on the Rectorship of the 
Church of the Ascension, in the city of Philadelphia. He had 
greatly endeared himself to the parishioners in his brief inter- 
course with them, and carries with him their sincere affection 
and respect. His removal is a loss to the diocese, and to me a 
severe bereavement. Happily, the Catholic Church is one ; so 
that the loss to one member of it becomes the gain to another. 
Wherever he may be, he has my blessing with him.'^f — Episcopal 
Address, June 1st, 1843. 

EXTRAOEDIXARY RESOLUTIONS OF THE YESTRY. 

At a meeting of the Yestry held at their Yestry Room, on 
Thursday, 21st September, A. d. 1843, at 7 o'clock p. pur- 
suant to notice. 

^'Present — Wardens, Messrs. Kinsey and Milnor. Vestry- 
men, Messrs. Wilson, Shedaker, Hall, McCoy, C. Larzelere, 
Ilulme, and J. Larzelere, junior. The Rector being absent, 
Chas. Kinsey, Senior Warden, presided. 

Two Accounts from James Horn for his daily attendance at 
the Church, the one for 118 days at 25 cts. pr day, to July 19th, 
1843, $29.50; the other 10 weeks and 2 days, twice a day, at 
50 cents pr day, $31, amounting to $60.50, were presented 
before the Yestry for payment, whereupon, on motion of Mr. 
Wilson, it was 

^'1. Resolved, That as the said daily service at the Church 
was unauthorized by the Yestry, and the daily attendance of 
the sexton was not required by them, the Yestry therefore refuse 

fThe Eev. Frederick Ogilby, and wife, in September, 1840, passed a week 
with the Eev. Dr. Hook, Vicar of Leeds, in England. During this visit, at 
the request of Dr. Hook, he preached in the old parish Church of that place. 
It was the first time that a clergyman in American orders preached in Eng- 
land after the enabling act of July, 1840. A member of Parliament, walking 
home from Church with Mrs. Ogilby, remarked to her, that he was " agreeably 
disappointed in the sermon, as he expected, perhaps, to hear something of the 
Sam Slick order (!) This service occurred a year before the consecration of 
the new Church at Leeds, which took place September 2d, 1841, when Bishop 
Doane preached. 



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to pay the said Accounts or any part thereof, and that they will 
not pay to the sexton, for his attendance and services at the 
Church, any further compensation than the annual salary agreed 
to be paid to hini. 

" 2. Resolved, That the Ringing of the Church Bell be dis- 
pensed with and omitted, excepting on Holy and Fast days. 

" 3. Resolved, That a copy of these Resolutions, certified by 
the Secretary, be delivered to the Rector, and Sexton/' 

BISHOP doaxe's proposed resigxatiox of the eector- 

SHIP. 

Riverside, 9 Oct. 1843. 
My DEAR Sir, — I readily comply with your request to fur- 
nish you a statement of the facts connected with my notice of 
resignation of the Rectorship of St. Mary's Church ; with a 
view to laying the matter before Mr. Binney. He is particu- 
larly well qualified to advise you in the premises. 

" On my return home, on the 29th day of September, after 
an absence most undesirably prolonged, I found waiting for me 
the Eesolutions of the Vestry, which are herewith enclosed ; a 
copy of which, I understand had in like manner been served 
upon the Sexton. The circumstances connected with this action 
of the Vestry, are briefly these i During the season of Lent, 
which was also the Confirmation season, in this parish, there had 
been daily morning prayer, with occasional evening services. 
The attendance had been so good, the interest so lively, and the 
influence apparently so beneficial, that, at the close of that sea- 
son when I was setting out on my Spring Visitation, I felt 
reluctant to announce their discontinuance. The Rev. Dr. 
Lyons kindly offering to perform the duty in my absence, I was 
enabled to continue the service as before ; never engaging for 
more however than from week to week. The service was con- 
tinued to the time of my leaving here, July 15th, and about 
that time the daily evening service was added. The bell had 
always been rung without any direction from me, in accordance 
with the printed regulation of the Vestry which directs that it 
shall be at every appointed service. I was of course, not^igno- 



IN BURLINGTQN. 



rant that the duties of the Sexton Avere thus increased ; and 
intended at a proper time, to see that he was properly remun- 
erated. I^ould not but feel that the action of the Yestry on 
the subject in my absence and without consultation with me was 
hasty, and to be regretted. I was sorry to find that, for a week 
the services had been intermitted the Rev. Mr. Germain and 
the Rev. Dr. Lyons being unwilling, in my absence, to go on, 
under the circumstances. On my return I announced the daily 
services as usual. I was obliged to leave home again on Mon- 
day ; and am informed since I came back, that the bell, was not 
rung, I refer on this subject, not only to the By-Laws accom- 
panying the Charter, but to the printed directions to the Sexton 
which are suspended in the Vestry room. 

'^On Saturday evening, 30th September, I had an interview, 
by their appointment with the Wardens. They informed me, 
that at each of two Vestry meetings, during my absence, of 
which I had not been notified ; (see Section 2 of Article 2 of 
the By-Laws,) Resolutions had been proposed instructing or 
requesting the Rector, or whoever should officiate in his absence, 
to wear the gown in delivering the Sermon and to deliver it 
from the Pulpit * and they assured me that such Resolutions 
would have been passed, had they not pledged themselves to see 
me, on my return and state the facts to me. In reply to my 
remark, that the Vestry surely would not pass Resolutions that 
were beyond their province, (see Pastoral Letter on the Duties 
of Wardens and Vestrymen, setting forth the law of the Diocese 
on this subject since 1804,) and which they had not the power 
to enforce ; it w^as claimed, as to the first point, to be their 
province to direct the Rector as to the postures, places and vest- 
ments to be used in public worship ; and, as to the second, that 
they had the power to carry their resolutions into eflPect. In 
reply to my inquiry, how? it was alledged, that they might 
reduce the salary of the Rector ;. or, that they might avail them- 
selves of the provision, in Section ].l of the Charter, to Mis- 
charge' the minister. I contented myself with denying the 
validity of the Charter of 1793, as superseded by the action of 
the parishioners in 1835,. in placing themselves under the ^ Act 



480 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



to incorporate religious Societies worshipping according to the 
customs and usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church.' Both 
the charter and the act accompany this letter. 

" It is proper to state that my interview with the Wardens 
was altogether friendly in its terms and tenour ; that I did not 
understand them as defending or disavowing for themselves the 
views of the Vestry ; and that I regarded their action in staying 
the passage of the Resolution till my return as done in kindness 
and respect to me. The interview was terminated by my saying 
that I could not admit the right of . the Vestry to instruct or 
in any way attempt to influence the course of the Rector, in the 
■discharge of his spiritual duties ; and could yield no compliance 
to their wishes ; and that I did not doubt that on reflection they 
would see the propriety of my course, and take no farther 
measures. That if they did — though I would not hold myself 
bound to make the trial — the parishioners would doubtless find 
some way to make their wishes known ; and that by their will 
my course would be regulated. If they concurred with the Ves- 
try, I could no longer hold the office of Rector. If they did 
not, the Vestry would govern themselves accordingly. 

On Sunday, 1st October, I pursued my usual course. In 
regard to the point in hand, it may be well to say, that I have 
for years been of opinion that the prevailing arrangements of 
our Churches were unfavourable, both to the true idea of wor- 
ship, and to the true uses of instruction. It is a very long time, 
I believe, as much as three years since, I have gone into the 
pulpit, or worn the gown, in my familiar exposition of the Holy 
Scriptures, in the afternoon ; feeling that the opposite course 
was inconsistent with thsit familiar it i/, which I regard as one of 
its most desirable characteristics. No intimation ever reached 
me that it was unpleasant to any member of the congregation. 
"When at a subsequent period, the Rector of Trinity Church, 
Princeton, asked my approval of his use of the surplice only, in 
the public services of the Church, I gave it, with my reasons. 
In my address at the following Convention, I recorded and de- 
clared that approval. Consistency dictated its adoption. In 
the same manner, as will be seen in my last address to the Con- 



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481 



ventioDj I declared and recorded my settled conviction, as to the 
elevation of the preacher above his hearers. I did not hesitate, 
after that, to do, in the morning, as I had before done in the 
afternoon ; to bring the delivery of the written sermon to the 
ievel of the more familiar exposition of the word of God ; and 
to do it in the same vesture. This was on the first Sunday in 
June. Until the 29th day of September it was never intimated 
to me that it was unacceptable ; and then in the way described 
a'bove. 

Leaving home on Monday morning, and returning on Sat- 
urday, I had time to consider the case. I was assured by the 
Wardens, that a meeting of the Yestry would be speedily de- 
sired, and that resolutions such as are spoken of above, would 
be passed. It would then remain for me to comply, or to 
appeal to the parishioners against the Vestry. The^rs^ I could 
not do, as it would be an admission of a wrong of unlimited and 
indefinable extent ; since the Vestry might go on to pass their 
judgment on the substitution of frequent administration of the 
Communion for its quarterly administration, on the public 
catechising of the children, on the observance of holy days, and 
other more frequent services, on the use of the offertory, &c.j &c., 
all of which had been introduced since my Rectorship. The 
second I ivoidd not do ; since it would put me at once in direct 
collision with some of my parishioners. In either case the ex- 
ample would be injurious to my Diocese and the Church. I 
therefore deliberately resolved to withdraw from the Kector- 
ship, and thus prevent the possibility of a controversy, in which 
I should be a party. 

" I beg to be understood, that in doing so I feel not the 
slightest ill will towards any individual. I have taken no 
offence, and make no complaint. The ground of my action is 
briefly this : I was induced to accept, and have continued to 
hold, the Rectorship of St. Mary's Church, that I might illus- 
trate, for the instruction of my clergy, the pastoral office in its 
practical detail. I have done so successfully. In this way the 
offerings of the Church, the public catechising, &c., &c., have 
been more effectually introduced into the Diocese, But this 

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motive could only hold while I should be free to act as RectoFj. 
under the responsibility proper to my office. The moment my 
action should be interfered with the example would become 
injurious. 

^' It amounts to this, then. If in the judgment of those whom 
I have sought to serve, as God enabled me for ten years, my age 
and of&ee with the accompanying responsibilities and experi- 
ence, do not entitle me to their entire and cordial confidence, to- 
judge and act for myself, subject to Canonical restraint and ta 
the restraints of public opinion, it becomes me to retire. Other 
than that, I am theirs to live and die with them. 

Onlv one things farther. If the Charter of 1793 is of bind- 
ing force, so far as the provision to ' discharge ^ the minister 
extends, I shall feel bound to advise no clergyman to accept the 
Rectorship. It is inconsistent with the legislation of the Churchy 
(see Canon 33 of the General Convention of 1832,) and with 
the very essence of the office. I owe it to myself to say, that 
when I accepted the Rectorship, I did not know of its existence ; 
and that I have always supposed, and still do, that it was super- 
seded by the action of 1835. If Mr. Binney^s opinion is asked^ 
as I hope it may be, on this point, he should be made acquainted 
with the action of the Parish in 1835, a record of which is in 
the Vestry book, which is now in the possession of Charles 
Kinsey, Esq. 

I have thus furnished you as you desire, with a complete 
statement of the facts and circumstances connected with my 
determination to resign the Rectorship of St. Mary's Church, 
and am with sincere regard, your faithful friend and servant. 

A COMMUXICATIOX REJECTED AXD EETUEXED. 

^^At a meeting of the vestry of St. Mary's Church, held at 
their Vestry Room, on Tuesday, the 10th October, 1843, at 7 
o'clock P. ii. pursuant to adjournment ; 

Present, The Rector. 

Wardens J Messrs. Kinsey & Mil nor. 

Vestrymen, Messrs. Shedaker, Hall, Hulme and McCoy. 



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'^The minutes of the last meeting were read and ap])r{)ved. 

" A communication from sundry persons claiming to be par- 
ishioners of this Church, concerning the proceedings of this 
Vestry on the 21st September last, having been presented and 
read, and being in the opinion of the Vestry improper, and want- 
ing in respect for the official station w^hich they hold under the 
charter of this Church, it w^as unanimously 

"Resolved, That the same be rejected and returned by the 
Secretary to those who presented it, ^vith an expression of the 
disapprobation of the Vestry.'' 

LAYIXG THE CORXER STOXE OF THE CHAPEL OF THE HOLY 

IXXOCEXTS. 

On Thursday, 2oth September, 1845, in the presence of the 
Rev. Drs. Lyons, and Bowman, (of the diocese of Pennsylvania,) 
and the Rev. Messrs. Morehouse, Finch, Germain, Hallowell^ 
Clarkson, and Ogilby and Pryor, (of the diocese of Pennsylvania,) 
and a large concourse of the laity, I laid the corner stone of the 
Chapel of the Holy Innocents, for the religious uses of the 
Christian household of St. Mary's Hall. The increase in 
numbers of this flourishing nursery of the Church, and the more 
perfect carrying out of its plan, as an institution of the Church, 
have long indicated the desirableness of such a provision. Its 
immediate origin is due to the energetic interest and well de- 
served influence of the excellent Matron; whose pious suggestion 
has been warmly received and eflectively supported by many of 
the numerous daughters who have grown up under her eye, and 
gone out, to be ^as polished corners of the temple,^ at once sus- 
taining and adorning it. Contributions for the object continue 
to be received by her ; and its progress and completion wall 
keep pace w^ith, and attest, the grateful aficction of tliis beloved 
sisterhood of piety and charity." — Episcopal Address, 1846. 

THE EEY. BEXJ. I. HAIGHT ELECTED ASSISTANT RECTOE. 

At a Vestry meeting held Dec. 16th, 1845, in conformity to 
the notice of the Rector : 

" The Rector stated that he had called the present meeting 
for the purpose of nominating the Rev"^ Mr. Haight as Assistant 



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Rector of this Parish. After some questions as the terms upon 
which Mr. Haight would be willing to accept the appointment 
had been satisfactorily answered by the Rector, and the members 
generally had signified their approval of the same, the Rev"^ 
Benj"" 1. Haight, on motion of Mr. Parker, seconded by T. Mil- 
nor, was unanimously elected Assistant Rector of this Parish/' 

PROJECT OF A XEW CHURCH EDIFICE. 

On Easter Day, 12 April, 1846, in St. Mary's Church, Bur- 
lington, I read prayers, confirmed three persons, preached, and 
administered the Holy Communion, assisted by the Rev. Mr. 
Germain. These, with twenty-seven, on the feast of the An- 
nunciation, and one of the parishioners confirmed at Church- 
ville, make thirty-one in this parish. For this abundant 
harvest, I humbly thank the gracious Lord, who giveth all the 
increase. It has been to me, indeed, a season of rejoicing. 
Some who have been especially the subjects of my pastoral in- 
terest, for many years, have at this time yielded themselves unto 
God ; and there has been ^ great joy in that city.' It is a lesson 
that ^ men ought always to pray, and not to faint.' It is that 
which is written in the Psalms : ^ he that went forth weeping, 
with his precious seed, shall surely come again with joy ; and 
bring his sheaves with him.' I have substantial evidence to 
offer of the engagedness of my parishioners in the cause and 
service of the Church, in the fact, that, within a few days, I 
procured from them, on my sole application, and without the 
slightest occasion for solicitation, the sum of thirteen thousand 
dollars, towards the erection of a new Church, which is to cost 
twenty thousand. The present venerable structure, doubled in 
size since my connection with the parish, is now too small, and 
will not bear enlargement. I hope soon to lay the corner stone 
of the new edifice. I have deemed it my duty to limit applica- 
tions towards this object to such as as are actual parishioners, or 
have a personal or local interest in the parish. It is but just to 
say that I have never known an instance, in which the contri- 
butions towards a religious object bore so large a proportion to 
the ability of the contributors. With the Apostle, I can literally 



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485 



say, ' to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power, 
thev were willing of themselyes.' Xor has the customary 
bounty of the parish, towards all proper applications to them for 
aid, in the promotion of Church objects, been at all diminished. 
I ascribe this state of things, under the divine blessing, to the 
influence of the w^eekly Offertory. The parishioners of St. 
Mary's are familiar with giving. They have learned, many of 
them, ^ it is more blessed to give than to receive.' The gra- 
cious Lord will fulfil His word in them. I shall ensure the 
congratulations of the Convention for my parishioners and my- 
self, when I say that the Eev. Benjamin I. Haight, late Eector 
of All Saints' Church, Xew York, and Professor of Pastoral 
Theology and Pulpit Eloquence, in the General Theological 
Seminary, is to be my Assistant in this parish. I cannot omit 
my grateful acknowledgments to the Pe\^. Dr. Lyons, for the 
valuable services which he has always rendered at my requ-est; 
without appointment, and without compensation." — Episcopal 
Address, 1846. 

IXCORPORATION OF BURLIXGTOX COLLEGE. 

" I have singular pleasure in announcing to the Convention, 
the incorporation of Burlington College, with a Charter secur- 
ing its direction, forever, to the Church. I shall append a copy 
to this Address.! Arrangements are in progress for opening 

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of Nev: Jersey, 
That George AVashington Doane, Garret D. Wall, Isaac B. Parker, Eeuben 
J. Germain, Benjamin I. Haight, John D. Ogilbv, Edmund D. Barrv, Kich- 
ard S. Field, Elias B. D. Ogden, William Wright, Eichard W. Howell, 
George P. Macculloch, James Parker, Charles King, James Potter, Garrit 
S. Cannon, Jonathan J. Spencer, John J. Chetwood, Thomas P. Carpen- 
ter, Jeremiah C. Garthwaite, Abraham Browning, George Y. Morehouse, 
William Halsted, Daniel B. Ryall, and their successors, being members 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church, shall be, and thej are hereby con- 
stituted, a body politic and corporate, by the name of * The Trustees oi' Bur- 
lington College ; ' and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may 
sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, and may purchase and hold prop- 
erty, whether acquired by purchase, gift or devise, and whether real, personal 
or mixed ; and may make and have a corporate seal, and the same break and 
alter at their pleasure ; and shall have all other rights belonging to similar 
corporations by the law of this State. 

2. And be it enacted, That the object of said association is hereby declared 
to be the advancement of education. 



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the Preparatory School, as a nursery for the College, on the first 
of November next, under the most promising auspices. The 
Convention will remember, that, for many years, I have earn- 
estly expressed my conviction of the importance of such an 
Institution, for the Diocese.. They will unite their grateful 
thanks with mine, to Him who has given it to us, in His 
accepted time. They will do more than this. They will unite 
their prayers with mine, for every blessing on the work ; and 
they will combine with mine, their efforts, that what ^ we desire 
faithfully, we may obtain effectually.' I owe it to the truth to 
say, that a body of men of higher intelligence and more entire 
devotion to their enterprise than the Board of Trustees, I have 
never been permitted to co-operate with.f They have purchased 



"3. And be ii enacted, That the entire management of the affairs and con- 
cerns of said Corporation, and all the corporate powers hereby granted, shall 
be, and are hereby vested in a Board of twenty-four Trustees, a majority of 
whom shall always be citizens and inhabitants of this State, and a majority of 
the Trustees shall constitute the necessary cjuorum for the transaction of all 
business matters connected with the said Institution ; the persons named in 
the first section of this Act, to be the first Trustees ; the Governor of the State, 
for the time being, to be also a Trustee, ex-officio, and the President of the 
Board : Provided, that the President or other principal officer, by whatever 
name called, of the said College, shall always be a Trustee, and citizen and 
inhabitant of this State. 

"4. And be it enacted, That the Trustees shall hold their first meeting at 
the call of the Trustee first named, and shall have power from time to time to 
enact by-laws, not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States 
or of this State, or to this Act, for the regulation and management of the said 
Corporation or College, to fill up vacancies in the Board, and to prescribe the 
number and description, the duties and powers of the officers, the manner of 
their appointment and the term of their office^: and special meetings of said 
Trustees may be called by the President, or any six or more of said Trustees, 
upon ten days' notice in writing of the time and place thereof, being given or 
sent to each of said Trustees, 

"d. And be it enacted, That for the purpose of carrying out the object 
declared in the second section of this Act, the said Corporation shall have power 
from time to time, to purchase, take and hold real and personal estate, and to 
sell, lease and dispose of the same : Provided, the annual value shall not 
exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars. 

" 6. And be it enacted, That the said Corporation shall have, and possess the 
right and power of conferring the usual Academic and other degrees granted 
by any other College in this State. 

"Approved February 27, 1S46." 

t " Board of Trustees.— His Excellency Charles C. Stratton, Glovernor of 
the State, ex-officio, a Trustee, and President of the Board : the Eight Reverend 
George Washington Doaiie, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of the Diocese, President 
of the Board, in the absence of the Governor ; the Hon. Garret D. Wall, the 
Eev. Reuben J. Germain, the Rev. John D. Ogilby, D. D., Richard S. Field, 
Esq., the Hon. William Wright, C^eorge P. Macculloch, Esq., James Potter, 



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a most eligible site, and are disposed to make the most liberal 
carraDgemeiits for the Institution. As my best approval of their 
spirit and exertions, I have accepted their appointment as Agent, 
to procure a suitable endowment for it. I design to devote my- 
self to it unreservedly; and shall count on a generous reception 
from my brethren of the Clergy and Laity. I can conceive of 
no better opportunity for the commencement of a work, which 
generations yet to come will rise and bless ; nor is there a re- 
sponsibility so incumbent on the diocese of Xew Jersey, in my 
judgment, as its immediate and effectual establishment. I need 
not repeat here, what I have urged so often and so earnestly, 
my strong conviction of the eminent fitness of the diocese of 
New Jersey for all the purposes of education; and chiefly for 
what concerns us most, of education in the Church. * * 
^'I regard the establishment of Burlington College as certain 
to give vigor and influence to [other] Institutions. People resort 
for every thing to the place where they can find the best supply. 
Multiply good Schools in New Jersey, and you increase the flow 
•of scholars, in proportion. Let the College of the diocese 
become established, in the general confidence, as an accepted 
a-eservoir, where men resort to quench the noble rage for science ; 
and these and similar places will be sought too, with an eager 
joy, as fountains among Palm-trees, to refresh them by the way. 
Let us unite with heart and hand in furthering, in every form, 
the work of Christian education. Parochial Schools; Semi- 
naries, at suitable places, for the young of either sex ; a College 
for the Church ; and the ^ more hereafter,' whif h, if God please, 
shall grow out of it : these are the objects most worthy of our 
interest, our exertions, and our prayers. Let it be our constant 

Esq., Jonathan J. Spencer, M. D., Thomas P. Carpenter, Esq., Abraham 
Browning, Esq., William Halsted, Esq., Isaac B. Parker, Esq., the Eev. 

Benjamin I. Haight, the Eev. E. D. Barrv, D. D., Elias B. D. Ogden, Esq., 

^ — Eichard W. Howell, Esq., Charles King,* Esq., Garrit S. Cannon, Esq., John 
Joseph Chetwood, Esq., Jeremiah C.Garthwaite, Esq., the Eev. Geo. Y. More- 
house, Daniel B. Eyall, Esq., William H. Leupp, Esq. 
Secretary.— the Eev. Benjamin I. Haight. 
Treastjrer. — Thomas Milnor, Esq. 
"Proyisioxal Committee.— The Eight Eev. Dr. Doane, the Eev. Mr. 
Haight, the Eev. Mr. Germain, Isaac B. Parker, Esq., EichardS. Field, Esq., 
Jeremiah C.'Garthwaite, Esq., E. B. D. Ogden, Esq." 



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aim and end, ^ that our sons may grow up as the young plants^ 
and our daughters as the polished corners of the temple;' that 
so \\e may claim, and find fulfilled, in us, that gracious promise, 
by Isaiah, ^all thy children shall be taught of God, and great 
shall be the peace of thy children." — Episcopal Address, 1846. 

THE FORM OF BIDDING PRAYER; 
AS IT IS USED IX ST. IMAEY's HALL, AXD BURLIXGTON COLLEGE. 

Ye shall pray for Christ's Holy Catholic Church ; and as I am 
more especially bound, I bid your prayers for that pure and 
apostolic branch of it, which God has planted in the United 
States of America. 

Ye shall pray for the President of the United States, and for 
the Governor of this State, and for all that are in civil author- 
ity over us ; that all, and every of them, in their several call- 
ings, may serve truly, to the glory of God, and the edifying 
and well-governing of His people, remembering the account 
they have to give. 

Ye shall also pray for the Ministers of God's Holy ^Vord and 
Sacraments : whether they be Bishops, and herem more 
especially for the Bishop of this Diocese ; or Priests and Dea- 
cons, and herein more especially for the Clergy here residing, - 
that they may all shine like lights in the world, and adorn 
the doctrine of God, our Saviour, in all things. 

Ye shall pray for all the people of these United States, that 
they may live in the true faith and fear of God, and in broth- 
erly charity one towards another. 

And, for a due supply of persons qualified to serve God, and set 
forth His glory, ye shall pray for all Schools and Seminaries 
of godly and good learning, and for all whose hands are 
opened for their maintenance; and, more especially, for St. 
Mary's Hall and Burlington College, and all benefactors of 
the same: that, in these and all other places more immediately 
dedicated to God's honour and service, whatsoever tends to 
the advancement of true religion, and useful learning, may 
forever flourish and abound. 



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Finally, let iis praise God for all those which are departed out 
of this life, in the faith of Christ; and pray unto God, that 
we may have grace to direct our lives after their good example: 
that, this life ended, we may be made partakers, with them, 
of the glorious resurrection, in the life everlasting, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

1[ Let us pray. 
\_T hen follows the Litany.'] 

A PLAN FOR THE NEW CHURCH. 

At a Yestry meeting held Sep. 25th, 1846, ^'the Rector stated 
that the present meeting had been called for the purpose of en- 
abling him to lay before the Yestry a plan which he had just 
received from Mr. Upjohn for the new Church, which was the 
only one that seemed to him suited to the purpose of all that 
had been submitted, he regretted there had been so mtich delay, 
but it was to be attributed to the time of Mr. Upjohn being so 
much occupied with other matters, and the difficulty of furnish- 
ing a plan answering the purpose which would not involve too 
great an expenditure. That he was satisfied that a Church 
could be erected in accordance with the drawings now before the 
Yestry at an expenditure not to exceed $20,000. 

"The Rector also presented the list of subscriptions which he 
had obtained, amounting to $12,875, with a pledge that he would 
make it equal to the sum of $15,000, and expressed a hope that 
the Yestry would take charge of the same, and devise the means 
of raising an additional sum of $5,000. He was desirous that 
the corner stone should be laid this Autumn, and if practicable 
the first day of November should be fixed on as the day." 

LAYING THE CORNER STONE OF TtlE NEW CHURCH. 

"On Tuesday, 17th November, 1846, 1 laid the Corner Stone 
of the new St. Mary's Church, in this city ; announced, as in 
anticipation, in my last Address. I had the great pleasure, on 
that occasion, to have the presence and participation of my friend 
of thirty years, the Bishop of North Carolina, who delivered the 
Address. There were also present, the Rev. Messrs. Morehouse;, 



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Oermain, Mitchell, Harrokl, Hallowellj Lybrand, Franklin, 
Ver Mehr and Passmore ; the Rev. Drs. Boyd and Dacachetj 
and Messrs. Ogilby and Moorhouse, (of the diocese of Pennsyl- 
vania;) the Rev. Dr. Haight, and Messrs. Carter, Bradin, Yin- 
ton and Labagh, (of the diocese of ]Srew York ;) and the Rev. 
Hobart Williams, (of the diocese of Rhode Island.) I will 
enter into no details on this occasion, now. That will be more 
appropriate when the top stone shall be brought forth with 
•shoutings. I will only say, that the gratifying circumstances 
referred to at the last Convention, have met with no check or 
interruption. The arrangements for the erection of the Church 
have all been made with perfect unanimity ; and it is proceeding, 
under the admirable superintendence of Mr. Upjohn." — JEpisco- 
jxd Address, 1847. 

€OXSECRATIOX OF THE CHAPEL OF THE HOLY IXNOCEKTS. 

"On Thursday, 25 March, 1847, (Annunciation of the Blessed 
Yirgin Mary,) I consecrated the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, 
which, by the good hand of God upon me, I have been enabled 
to erect, for the religious uses of St. Mary's Hall. The Sen- 
tence of Consecration was read by the Chaplain, the Rev. Mr. 
Germain, and the Rev. Mr. Ogilby, (of the diocese of Pennsyl- 
vania,) read morning prayers, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Bradin. 
I preached the sermon on the occasion, confirmed six children, 
(five of them pupils of St. Mary's Hall, and one a student of 
Burlington College,) and administered the Holy Communion. 
There were present, the Rev. Messrs. Morehouse, Starr, A. B. 
Paterson, Adams, Hallo well and Lybrand : the Rev. Dr. Mor- 
gan, and the Rev. Messrs. Talbot, Beasley, Pryor and Lightner, 
(of the diocese of Pennsylvania ;) the Rev. [Messrs. L. John- 
son and Yinton, (of the diocese of Xew York,) and the Rev. Mr. 
Thackara, of the diocese of Georgia.) I acknowledge the com- 
pletion and consecration of this Holy Place, with fervent grati- 
tude to Almighty God, as the sacred token of His acceptance of 
my self-devotion, now ten years, to the great work of Christian 
Education, and of His blessing on the enterprise. The excellent 
Matron has collected from the pupils of the Hall, and from 



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491 



their friends, and contributed from the earnings of the house- 
hold, about one-fourth of the cost of the erection. She is dili- 
gently pursuing her generous desire, to redeem me from the 
liability for the remainder. The building, as I hope you will 
take the opportunity to see, is well-nigh perfect in its propriety 
and convenience; and does great credit to Mr. Xotmau, under 
whose direction it was erected. The beautiful chancel window 
is the gift of a dear child ; the Bible and Prayer Book are 
given by a venerable lady, a beloved parishioner of mine, in 
■other years, in Trinity Church, Boston ; and the Service for the 
Communion is on its way from England, the present of a lady 
there, my kind and faithful friend. These offerings of love, 
from sources so remote and various, blending here, embody and 
endear, to all our hearts, the communion of the saints in Christ : 
distinct, as billows ; as the ocean, one. The arrangements for 
the service in the Chapel realize to my mind, the utmost meas- 
ure of convenience, appropriateness and impressiveness ; and are 
worthy of careful consideration, in regard to many of our parish 
Churches. Indeed, I look upon its influence, in disseminating 
the true idea of sacred architecture, as among the most import- 
ant results of its so long desired completion. Of its interest and 
value to the Institution, which it consecrates and crowns, I can- 
not adequately speak. To give a school the name of Christ, to 
undertake the work of Christian Education, to be responsible 
for bringing children up in the nurture and admonition of the 
Lord, without a House of Prayer, without a holy place, with- 
out an altar, to say the least of it, is most unseemly, inconsistent, 
rash. It is to leave that contingent, which we admit is indis- 
putable. It is to present that as secondary, which we declare 
is fundamental. * The daily service brings the 

household there together at six, in the morning, and at half past 
seven in the evening ; while, at twelve, at noon, whoever will 
comes to a service, which, though very short, suffices to solemnize 
the day, and to remind us that it is all the Lord's. We ask the 
prayers of all, tliat on these prayers of ours, a blessing may be 
sent, to sanctify and crown our work, and make the daughters 
of St. Mary's Hall the polished corners of the Temple of our 
Ood." — Episcojml Address, 1847. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



EYEXSOXG, 

IX THE CHAPEL OF THE HOLY IXXOCEXTS. 

Twilight dews are falling fast, 

Upon the green and silent shore ; 
Twilight hours their shadows cast 

The deeply rolling river o'er; 
The zephyr's voice is scarcely heard, 

Amid the willow's ])ensive boughs, 
The rohin's song is silent now, 

And hushed the boatman's wild carouse. 

Dimly and red the rolling sun 

Now sinks beneath the western skv, 
As, like a king, whose race is run, 

He lays him down in pomp to die. 
Upon the river's swelling breast 

His soft and crimson glory falls, 
On many a cloud's embattled crest, 

And on St. Mary's hallowed walls. 

Hark I the vesper bell is tolling 

With a sweet and mournful sound. 
O'er the Avoods and waters rolling, 

"With music deep, and voice profound ; 
" To prayer, to prayer, oh, come, and kneel 

AVith joyful hearts, in glad accord ; 
And learn the language of the skies, 

Ye gentle handmaids of the Lord." 

In thronging beauty forth they comS; 

Unto the solemn place of prayer : 
And now the organ's pealing notes 

Are trembling on the evening air ; 
A hundred voices, soft and clear, 

Are floating through the arches high ; 
A hundred voices, tuned as one, 

Are ringing upwards to the sky : 

" God be merciful unto us. 

And bless us, and show us the light 

Of His countenance — " 

Oh, holy strain ! oh, blessed prayer ! 

That rolls along the solemn aisle; 
That floats upon the evening air. 

And angels bear to heaven the while. 
Across the waves, across the fields 

It swells in cadence strong and full, 
And lingers on the silent leaves, 

" To us, oh God, be merciful." 

The sunset's red and golden light 
Is streaming on the chancel floor, 

And, through the Chapel's vaulted height^ 
That blessed prayer is heard to pour ; 

And with the organ's pealing sound 

Still swells, with cadence sweet and full, 

In circling surges, round and round. 
To us, oh God, be merciful." 



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493 



The river wind hatli caught the sound, 

And bears it on his pinions strong, 
And trees -with summer glory crowned, 

The blest and holy strain prolong ; 
And, floating on the distant air. 

Is borne, in cadence low and full, 
The burthen of the evening prayer, 

" To us, oh God, be merciful." 

The fisher, on his homeward way. 

Leans silent on his weary oar. 
And hears, amid the twilight gray, 

That sweet and solemn hymn once more ; 
As, stealing o'er the waters far, 

In accents wild, and cadence full, 
It trembles on the summer air, 

"To us, oh God, be merciful." Z. 
Burlington, July, 1847. 



A PARISH SCHOOL FOR GIELS OPENED. 

" By the active exertion of some ladies, a Parish School for 
girls, has been opened. Thirty-three scholars, receive a plain 
English instruction, are taught to sew, and are catechized 
weekly. The means for supporting it for one year have been 
obtained. It is hoped that it will be made permanent ; and one 
for boys established. 

"The Rev. Dr. Ver Mehr acts as Curate; and performs the 
proper offices of the diaconate with great usefulness and accep- 
tation.^' — Parochicd Report, 1847. 

SUBSCPvIPTIONS TO THE XEW CHURCH. 
FEOISr DEC, 1816 TO JAX., 1848. 

George W. Doane, Isaac B. Parker, Caroline Watson, C, 
Lippincott, Susan Y. Bradford, Estate of Ann M. Wall, each 
§1000. Wm. M. Mcllvaine & Sisters, §750. Dr. Charles 
Ellis, E. J. Shippen, Joseph Askew, Edward X. Perkins, Sarah 
P. Cleveland, Charles C. Perkins, each §500. James H. Per- 
kins, $300. Charles W. Kinsman, §275. Henry C. Carey, 
§250. Dr. X. W. Cole, Sarah C. Robardet, Edward Harris, 
Wm. J. "Watson, George W. Doane, each §200. Thomas Mil- 
nor, Elizabeth Lyde, C. F. Lyde, Eichard B. Jones, Estate of 
Walter Wilson, Edward B. Grubb, Capt. F. Engle, D. W. Cox, 
Sarah P. Cleveland, each §100. Mary Weems, A. G. Ealston, 
Wm. A. Kogers, Joshua W. Collett, Mrs. J. S. Riddle, T. I. 



494 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Wharton^ Samuel Rogers, Rachel B. Wallace, James W. Bradin,. 
Isaac B. Parker, each $50. Mrs. S. C. Byles, Fanny Martee, 
Francis Roth, Charles Hand, Caroline Watson, each $25. 
Sophy, CoP., at Mr. Chauncey's, A Friend, Ditto being pro- 
ceeds of sale of skein of Pearls, to be accounted for by Mrs. 
Doane, each §10. Mrs. Wiltbank, $5. — Treasurer's Booh. 

IsEARLY THREE HUNDRED CHILDREN IN THE TWO INSTI- 
TUTIONS. 

'^Burlington College is intended for the training up of Pas- 
tors. It is designed, also, as a central home, for Missionary 
Deacons. When, in a few years more, these purposes shall be 
fulfilled, the diocese will have no want of Clergy, of a proper 
spirit. There are already there, five priests, and six young men, 
preparing for the ministry. Ten years, with God to bless us, 
will double, from that source alone, the present number of our 
Clergy. I ask your prayers, that God may bless the work ; 
that he may raise up for it, those who, in furnishing it with the 
endowment,t which is all it needs, may find how true it is, 
which He hath said, ' It is more blessed to give than to receive;' 
that He may continue to the dear children, in both houses, and 
to them who have the charge of them, abounding measures of 
His grace, ' that our sons may grow up as the young plants, 
and our daughters, as the polished corners of the temple.' * * 
Nearly three hundred children are gathered now at Burling- 
ton. They come from every quarter of the land. They meet, 
as in a common home. They are knit together in the bonds of 
mutual love. They will disperse, with false impressions cor- 
rected, with prejudices removed, with attachments formed, with 
affections mutually won. The way to the parental heart is 
shortest, through the child. Sectional differences, will, in this 
way, be diminished ; local and personal partialities will be re-^ 
moved ; the North will be drawn nearer to the South ; the East 
will be conciliated to the West. In this way, who can tell what 



J Miss Eachel B. "Wallace, late of Burlington, has bequeathed to the College 
two thousand dollars, for the support of such candidate, or candidates for 
orders, pursuing theological studies there, as the Bishop may designate. 



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495 



permanence may be imparted to oirr civil ins^titutions, what 
vigor infused into our great national interests, what harmony 
secured in our vast political relations? Especially, when the 
Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ is made the central magnet of 
attraction ; especially, when the Church of our Lord Jesus 
Christ is made the fold, for safety and protection." — Episcopal 
Address, 1848. 

THE EEY. EEXEST HAW'KI^'S, B. D., IX BURLIXGTOX. 

^^On Sunday, 29 July, 1849, (eighth after Trinity,) in St. 
Mary's Church, after morning prayers, by the Eev. Ernest 
Hawkins, B. D., Secretary of the Venerable Society, in Eng- 
land, for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, I 
preached, and confirmed fourteen persons ; seven of whom were 
pupils of St. Mary's Hall, and seven of Burlington College. 

This w^as a service of peculiar interest. The parish 
in Burlington has been closely connected with the Church of 
England, and deeply indebted to it. The first project, for an 
American Episcopate, proposed one Bishop, for the Islands, and 
another, for the Continent : the see of the latter to be at Bur- 
lington. The scheme was then enlarged :. two, for the Islands^ 
and two, for the Continent one, at Burlington, and one, at 
AVrlliamsburgh, Virginia. In 1714, a convenient mansion 
house and lands, for the Episcopal residence, were purchased, at 
the cost of £600 sterling, ^situate at Burlington, wathin the 
Jersies.' The project was arrested, by the death of Queen Anne. 
^The convenient Mansion House' ^vas burnt down. In 1803^ 
the lands were conveyed, by the Venerable Society, to the Cor- 
poration of St. Mary's Church and are now its property. 
The first minister of Burlington was one of the earliest Mission- 
aries of the Society, the Rev. Mr. Talbot. The Eev. Secretary 
of the Society, making a tour, through the country, was my 
guest, at the time of the Confirmation. It had been appointed, 
in special reference to the two Christian Schools, which, for so 
many years, have found a shelter, in the parish, which was the 
earliest and most favoured nursling of the Society. It w^as a 
beautiful providence^ that the excellent pei^on^ who, for ten 



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years has been its executive^ and, in that period, has laid the 
foundation of thirteen colonial bishoprics, should be present, 
with us, as partaker of our humble joy.'^ — Episcopal Address, 
1850. 

GIFT OF A SILVER FLAGOX. 

A massive flagon, of silver, was bequeathed to the parish, 
bearing this inscription : 

t 

A bequest from 
Mrs. Susan Wallace of Pliiladelpliia 
Widow of John Bradford Wallace, Esq 
to Sr. Mary's Cliurcli, Burlington, is. J., A. D. 1S49 
in memorv of tlie baptism 
in that parish of three children 
A. D. 1S07, 1810, ISll. 

A MAEEIAGE CEETIFICATE. 

" In the Xame of the Father and of the Sox and of the 
Holt Ghost Amen. 

THIS IS TO CERTIFY 
That on this twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of 
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, in St : 
Mary's Church in the City of Burlington, New Jersey, in a 
public congregation, The Rev. Marcus F. HYDE^f and Axxa 
M. Morris, j both of Burlington aforesaid, were by me duly 
united in Holy Matrimony, according to the provision of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. 

G W DOAXE, [l. s.] § 
''Rector of St. Mary's Church:' 

THE ARCHDEACOX OF SPAXISH TOWX, IX BURLIXGTOX. 

" I shall but make by own feelings the vehicle of yours, my 
reverend and beloved brethren, when I express the heartfelt 

t Professor of Ancient Languages in Burlington College. 

X AnnaMargaretta, daughter of Edmund Morris; and great-grand-daughter 
of Margaret Morris, from whose journal Ave quoted, on p. 321. 

§ The well-known Ej)iscopal seal of Bishop Doane, with the mitre at the 
top of the shield, and beneath, the legend "Eight Oxward."' 



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497 



pleasure, which has been afforded, by the presence, among us, 
this morning, of the Venerable Archdeacon Smith, of Spanish 
Town, in the Island of Jamaica. The Right Reverend the 
Bishop of that diocese was only prevented, from accepting my 
invitation, by a previous engagement, to go elsewhere. * * 
The increasing intercommunion of the mother and the daughter 
Church, now sisters, the Church of England, and the Protestant 
Episcopal Church, in the United States of America, is full of 
comfort, not only, but of the highest promise, for the spread of 
Apostolic truth, and the increase of Catholic love. May it 
abound more and more ! — Episcopal Address, 1850. 

GIFT OF A PATEN AND CHALICE. 

On the 25th of December, 1850, the parish was presented 
with a silver-gilt paten, and chalice, of beautiful design and 
finish. Around the rim of the paten, in Church text, we read : 
He that eateth of this bread shall live forever *h On the 
reverse, ^^St. Mary^s Church, Burlington, N. J., the Thankoffering 
of a Parishioner X-^^<^5 1850.'^ 

Around the bowl of the chalice, in letters similar to those on 
the paten, is this : "f" Whoso drinheth my blood hath eternal 
lifeJ^ And around the base, ^^St. Mary^s Church, Burlington, 
N. J., the Thankoffering of a Parishioner, X-mas, 1850.'^ 

COLLEGIANS PLANTING TREES. 

''On All Saints' Day, 1 November, 1851, I was present, and 
assisting, at Burlington College, at the beginning of a usage ; 
which I cannot but regard as charitable and pious, and cannot 
but hope may be perpetual. The Alumni, having determined 
to plant, each one, a tree, on that day, in the hope, that those 
who come after them, may follow their example, assembled, at 
the noon service, in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents ; where 
(as on all Holy Days) the Holy Communion was administered. 
We went, thence, in procession, to the College grounds ; where, 
after, appropriate prayers, the trees were planted. It is a beau- 
tiful thought, in these young Churchmen, to combine the me- 
morial of themselves, with the comfort of their successors, and 

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the adornment of their Ahua Mater. May they, themselves, be, 
all, as trees, ^ the planting of the Lord ! ' " — Episcopal Address, 
1852. 

EEMAEKS OX THE SPECIAL COXYEXTIOX. 

Of the Special Convention, which assembled on my call, in 
St. Mary^s Church, Burlington, on Wednesday, the 17th day of 
March, 1852, there is no occasion for me, now, to speak. The 
Journal is in your hands ; and, with it, a full minute, of the 
debates, as well as of the proceedings. I must be permitted, 
here, to say, that the trials, toils, and sufferings of my whole 
Episcopate were overpaid, by the unfaltering confidence, 
and unflinching determination to maintain the right, of the 
Clergy and people, over whom God has made me the overseer. 
With such a Clergy, and with such a people, I am ready, for 
whatever is appointed to me ; to live, or die, with them. It is 
my duty, here, to state, that, the action of the Special Conven- 
tion notwithstanding, what purports to be an ' official summons ^ 
' to appear in Camden, New Jersey, on the 24th day of June, 
1852, and answer to the s[tecifications made in the presentment^ 
' by ' ' the Bishops of Virginia, Ohio, and Maine, for trial,' 
signed ' Phil'r Chase, Pres'g B'p,' was served on me, on the 30th 
day of April. I trust, that I shall have grace from God, not to 
fail, in what I owe to my brethren, in the Episcopate, and to 
my successors, in that office, in this extraordinary state of affairs. 
And, I have perfect confidence, that the Diocese, whose repre- 
sentatives, at the Special Convention, filled the hearts of Christ- 
endom, with grateful admiration, will look well to its own 
rights and responsibilities, in the premises." — Episcopal Address, 
1852, 

PROPOSAL TO RE-ESTABLLSH ^' THE MISSIONARY." 

It is proposed to re-establish the Missionary, as a paper 
devoted generally to the interests of the Holy Catholic Church ; 
and as the official organ of the Bishop of New eTersey. Its dis- 
continuance was felt, by very many Churchmen of the Diocese, 
to be a great disadvantage ; but, it became necessary, from the 
pecuniary loss which it devolved on the Proprietor. With a 
view to remedy this evil, a more responsible and efficient 
method of conducting it has been adopted. 



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499 



The Missionary will be, as before, under the immediate 
supervision and control of the Rt. Rev. the Bishop of the Dio- 
cese. It will be published on the second and fourth Mondays 
of every month ; beginning as soon as 400 subscribers are ob- 
tained : and will contain eight pages, small folio. The price 
of subscription will be $2.00 a year, payable in advance ; or 
$2.50, if collected. The Missionary will be sent free to the 
Clergy of this Diocese, and to any person sending to the Editor 
the names of four subscribers. 

" This Circular, with the accompanying letter of the Bishop, 
is earnestly commended to the attention and interest of the 
Clergy, and the Laity, of the Church. 

All communications relative to the paper, must be addressed 
to the Editor and Proprietor. 

William Croswell Doane, 

'^Burlington, New Jersey. 
''Riverside, December 7th, 1852." 

" The undersigned earnestly commends to the patronage of 
the Diocese, and of Churchmen, everywhere, the enterprise now 
entered on, in the revival of the Missionary. It will be con- 
ducted, strictly and constantly, under his control and super- 
vision ; and will sustain and set forward the principles and 
institutions, to which his life has been devoted. 

"G. W. DOAXE, 
" Bishop of Neiu Jersey, 

''Riverside, 8 December, 1852." 

REY. WM. CROS^YELL DOAInE ELECTED ASSISTANT. 

" At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary^s Church, held 
April 21st, 1853, the Secretary laid before the Vestry the fol- 
lowing letter, from the Rev. William Croswell Doane, in reply 
to his communication to him, of his unanimous election to the 
office of Assistant Minister of this Parish, which letter w^as read 
and ordered to be recorded upon the minutes : 

"'Riverside, April 9, 1853. 

" ' My dear Mr. Aertsen : 

" ' Allow me to express through you to the Wardens and Ves- 
trymen of this parish, my sincere thanks for the confidence with 
which they have honored me, in calling me to be their Assist- 
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accept a call, which enables me to relieve my Father of part of 
the toil, which, for so many years, he has borne alone ; and to 
serve humbly, and in the fear of God at the altar of my Con- 
firmation, my first Communion and my Ordination, among 
those who have so long walked with me in the House of God 
as friends. 

^' ^ With great respect 

" ' Your faithful friend & servt. in Christ, 

"'W^L, Croswell Doane. 

' R. B. Aertsex, Esq., 

"'Sec. of of St. Mary's Ch.' 

DURIXa THE ERECTION OF A CHURCH. 

The following Prayer is used in St. Mary's Church, Burling- 
ton ; and is permitted to be used in any of the Congregations of 
the Diocese, under similar circumstances. 

G. W. DOANE, 

BisJiojD of Neio Jersey. 

Riverside, 4 July, 1853. 

THE PRAYER. 

O, Almighty God, who hast given unto us, Thy servants, 
grace, to erect an house, for the honour of Thy name, and for 
the comfort and salvation of the souls, for which. Thy only Son 
did shed His precious blood, accept the offering, which, in all 
humility, we bring to Thee, of that, which is Thine own ; and 
bless Thy servants, and their service. " Prosper, Thou the 
work of our hands upon us,'' O God ; O, prosper Thou our 
handy-work." Direct their counsels, to whom the work is 
specially entrusted, that it may be ordered, to Thy greatest 
glory, and to the greatest good of Thy believing people. Have, 
in Thy Holy keeping, the building, and whatsoever appertains 
to it : that our sacred purpose may be brought, the soonest, to 
the best result. Direct and bless the skill and industry of the 
Architect, the master-builders, and the workmen. May they be 
safe from every accident, and secure from every danger. And 
may all, who are, in any way connected with this temple, made 
with hands, be built up, through the operation of Thy Holy 
Spirit, as living stones, acceptable to Thee, through Him, who 
is the tried and precious corner stone, Thy Son, our only Saviour, 
Jesus Christ. Amen. 



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501 



THE PRESENTMENT DISMISSED. 

From the next day, 1 September, lSbP>, to the 15, inclusive, 
I was in attendance on the Court of Bishops, assembled, in Cam- 
den, on the third presentment,t made for substantially the same 
-charges, by the Bishops of Virginia, Ohio, and Maine : all of 
which had been investigated by a Committee of your Body, after 
testimony, taken under oath ; and declared to be not sustained 
by evidence. As the order of the Court, that ^ the presentment 
.be dismissed, and the respondent be discharged, without day,' 
was unanimous, seventeen Bishops, the whole of the Court, being 
present, I content myself with the single remark, that the form 
which its conclusion took, was not of my seeking ; and was 
recommended to me, as, in the highest degree, desirable, for the 
peace and unity of the Church. Having laboured, assiduously, 
for that end, during a ministry, which overruns the third part 
of a century, I am thankful to believe that it has still been fur- 
thered, by the decision of this vexatious controversy." — Episco- 
;pal Address, 1854. 

THE CHEISTMAS WAITS. 

On the midnight of Christmas, A. D. 1853, the old English 
•eustom was introduced in the parish for " the Waits'' — a num- 
ber of young men — to visit the Episcopal residence, the homes of 
the Clergy, the Hall and the College, and the houses of promi- 
nent ; parishioners, saluting them under their windows, with 
Christmas carols. 

SEEYICES FOR THE UPPER PART OF THE CITY PROPOSED. 

'^At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary's Church held Feb. 
■6, 1854, the Rector having stated to the A^estry that his partic- 
ular object in calling them together on this occasion, was to 
express to them his conviction of the obligation not only, there 
w^as resting upon this parish to furnish additional Church 
Services and instruction to the residents in the upper part of 

f For this " New Jersey Case — too voluminous for insertion in this work — 
the reader is referred to the "Journals of the Conventions of the Diocese of 
New Jersey/' and to the " Life of Bishop Doane, by his Son," pp. 470-506 ; 
and, further, to the " Life of Bishop Hopkins, by his Son," pp. 250-267. 



502 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



the City who could not be induced to attend at the Parish Church ; 
but also that the time had fully come when an eflPort should be 
made to fulfill said obligation, it was on motion 

"Besolved, Tiiat the wardens be appointed a committee to 
confer with the Rector upon the most desirable mode of accom- 
plishing said object, and that they report to a future meeting 
of Yestry/' 

A COXSECEATIOX PATEX. 

At Easter, 1854, a very large and elegant consecration-paten of 
silver-gilt was presented, having a medallion, in enamel of red 
and white, of the King of Glory, with the ensign of sovereignty 
in his hand, his head being surrounded with a nimbus in which 
the cross is conspicuous. Around the rim of the paten is this 
inscription in Church text: "*i*Blessing and honour andgloinj and 
poicer be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne and. unto the Lamb 
jor ever and ever. Amen.^' On the reverse is this: "^Hurnbli/ 
laid upon the Altar of St. Mary^s Church, Burlington, Kew Jersey, 
Easter, MB CCCLIY. f " 

^'Laus Deo! 

^^A. record of the Goodness and Mercy of God, as most nota- 
bly displayed in His protection from destruction, of the beautiful 
Temple, now being erected to His Honour and Glory by the 
members of this parish. 

"On the evening of Thursday the 27th day of April, 1854,. 
during a storm remarkable for its violence, the spire of the new 
Church, then built up to about three-fourths of its designed 
height, and as yet, entirely unprotected by any human means 
from such a disaster, was struck by a thunder-bolt so crushing, 
as to render hopeless any resistance, which the strength of the 
most solid masonry could ofPer to its violence ; but, Blessed be 
Our God, who ^hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm' 
and before whom Hhe mountains quake and the hills melt,' ^Our 
Holy and Beautiful House' was not 'burned up,' the Lord 'made 
a way for the lightning of the thunder,' and the prayers which 
have been daily offered in His sanctuary for the preservation of 



IX BURLINGTON. 



503 



the building and all concerned in its erection, were mercifully 
heard and answered. 

" With the exception of the displacing of a few stones, which 
one day's labor restored, no injury was done; and this record is 
now here made, as a memorial of our thanksgiving to God for 
His most^ Providential mercy. 

" ^ Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and 
for his wonderful works to the children of men ! And let them 
sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works 
with rejoicing.' '' — Vestry Minutes. 

SUBSCEIPTIOXS FOR A XEW ORG AX. 

" The undersigned agree to contribute what is underwritten 
to the purchase of an Organ, for St. Mary's Church, to cost 
fifteen hundred dollars ; and to be approved by the Rector. 
The payment to be made to Thomas Milnor in three equal parts : 
10 May, 10 June, and 10 July. 

"Robert B. Aertsen, Franklin Gauntt, Elizabeth G. Cole, 
Rebecca Cole, William J. Watson, Margaret Mcllvaine, Mary 
Mcllvaine, William Mcllvaine, L. W. Cannell, Henry C. Carey, 
E. E. Boudinot, Caroline Watson, Mrs. I. B. Parker, Miss 
Marcia Parker, Miss Virginia Parker — SoO each. T. W. Wall 
— $30. Jas. Farnum, Thomas Milnor, James W. Wall, Mrs. 
J. W. Wall, The Misses Shippen, Charles Svrann, Mrs. Swann, 
Mr. Destouet, Mr. Lincoln — 825 each. H. McDowell — 110. 
John D. Moore, From a Lady — So each. Miss Patty Neal, 
Susan Burr — 81 each." 

A PARISH SCHOOL FOR BOYS. 

'^The Parish School for boys, under the care of Mr. Samuel B. 
Seaman, contains thirty-seven boys, w^ho receive a plain English 
education, with careful religious instruction, w^eekly catechism 
and instruction in sacred music. The Parish School for girls, 
under the care of Miss Anna W. Blackney, numbers eighty 
children ; whose instruction comprises, plain sewing, in addition 
to the above. Both Schools are strictly under the. supervision 



504 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



and control of the Clergy of the Parish, and are for the children 
of its poor. 

"A class for Scriptural instruction, meeting every week, has 
been successfully commenced. 

The new Parish Church, f will be ready for consecration, 
in a few weeks, if it please God. 

" The Rev. Mr. Frost continues to render valuable service in 
the Parish." — Parochial Report^ 1854. 

ST. mart's excels in offerings. 

' St. Mary's Church, Burlington,' writes Bishop Doane in a 
Pastoral Letter to the diocese, dated St. John Baptist's Day, 
1854, ^ has contributed more than all the rest of the diocese, to 
the Offerings of the Church, for the last Conventional year. 
Moreover, since the establishment of the Offerings of the 
Church,' as the diocesan mode of Missionary contributions, in 
1833, that Parish has contributed twenty-seven thousand three 
hundred and sixty-one dollars, to various Church uses. 

* * The Ofieriugs, on the first Sunday in every 

month, are for the charities of the Parish. On the other Sun- 
days in the month, unless for some special purpose, they are for 
the Missions of the diocese. Whenever a special purpose is 
deemed proper, notice of it is given, on the Sunday preceding. 
The contributions, for stated purposes, have never fallen ofiP 
from a fair average. — For special purposes, they always rise in 
just proportion to the occasion. The people never think of their 
prayers going up, before God, without their alms. And, when 
a Clergyman, once, officiated, here, from abroad, who had not 
been instructed in this point, and there Avas no Offertory, they 
expressed their regret, and complained of feeling lost. There 
are many parishes, in this diocese, which are able to give more 
than St. Mary's, Burlington. If every Parish should adopt the 
plan, tlie hundreds would be thousands." 

t At a meeting of the Vestry of Trinity Church, New York, held June 9th, 
1853, "An application of the Et. Kevd. Bishop Doane, for the loan of the 
machine for raising stone owned by this Churcli for the purpose of erecting 
the spire of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, Avas received, and read, and it was 
ordered, that the same be loaned to the building of that Cliurch." — Extract 
from the Minutes. Win. E. Dunscomb, Clerk of the Vestry. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



505 



CONSECRATION OF THE NEW ST. MARY's CHUECH. 

" I do not think you will consider me extravagant, when I 
say, that the next service which I performed, was among the 
most interesting of my life : if I except the ordination of my two 
sons, quite the most interesting. I speak of the consecration of 
the new St. Mary's Church, in Burlington, on Thursday, the 
10th of August, 1854. * * In 1845, the attempt was 
made to obtain such funds, as would warrant the erection of a 
new Church. The result was so encouraging, that the Corner 
Stone was laid, on the 17th day of November, 1846 : with the 
just confidence, that the proceeds of property, belonging to the 
Parish, would be immediately available, to make up, what was 
not subscribed, by the parishioners. But, in this reasonable re- 
liance, the Yestry were disappointed ; and a series of delays, 
and failures, not controllable by us, deferred, nine years, the 
complete fulfilment of our hopes. You may judge, with what 
an eager joy, we met the Psalmist's challenge, come let us 
worship, and fall down, and kneel, before the Lord our Maker. 
For He is the Lord our God ; and we are the people of His 
pasture, and the sheep of His hand. O worship the Lord, in 
the beauty of holiness.' And, how, ^ like them that dream,' we 
felt, when He ^ turned our captivity ;' and in the midst of the 
congregation of His people, we brought Him ^ the honour that 
was due unto His name.' I deeply felt the general interest, in 
the occasion, which brought together so great a company of 
Clergy and of Laity, from other Dioceses, as well as from our 
own. The request for Consecration, f was presented to me by 

f " We, the Eector, Cliurch-wardens, and Vestrymen of St. Mary's Church, in 
the City of Burlington, County of Burlington, and State of New Jersey, hav- 
ing, by the good providence of ALMiaHTY God, erected in Burlington a house 
of public worship — the former house erected in 1703, and enlarged, for the 
fourth time, and consecrated, in 1834, being too small for the parishioners — 
do hereby appropriate and devote the same to the worship and service of Al- 
mighty God, the Father, tlie Son and the Holy Ghost, according to the 
provisions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of Amer- 
ica, in its ministry, doctrines, liturgy, rites, and usages, and by a congregation 
in communion with said Church, and in union with the Convention thereof in 
the Diocese of New Jersey. 

"And we do also hereby request the Right Reverend George Washington 
DoANE, D. D., LL. D., the Bishop of the said Diocese, to take the said build- 
ing under his spiritual jurisdiction, as Bishop aforesaid, and that of his suc- 
cessors in office, and to consecrate the same by the name of St. Mary's Church, 



506 



HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



the Senior AVarden, Thomas Milnor, Esq.; who, as Treasurer 
of the Corporation, has rendered services, which could not be 
paid for, and at a cost of time and care which none but himself, 
can estimate. It was read by the Rev. Dr. Watson, Rector of 
Burlington College. The sentence of Consecration was read by 
the Rev. Mr. Finch, President of the Standing Committee. 
Morning Prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. Creighton, (of the 
Diocese of New York,) and the Rev. Dr. Mahan, (of the Dio- 
cese of Pennsylvania ; now, I am happy to say, of this Diocese,) 
the Rev. Messrs. Clarkson, and Macurdy reading the Lessons. 
I preached, and administered the Holy Communion, the Rev. 
Mr. Germain, Principal of St. Mary^s Hall, reading the Epistle. 
There were also present, the Rev. Messrs. Morehouse, Stewart, 
Frost, Rowland, E. K. Smith, Weld, C. F. Hoffman, and 
Foggo ; the Rev. Messrs. Cox, Shackelford, McVickar, Hopkins, 
and Tracy, (of the Diocese of New York ;) the Rev. Drs. Dorr, 
and Williams, and the Rev. Messrs. Rogers, Ogilby, Bonner, 
Beasley, Franklin, Webb, Roberts, and Huntington, (of the 
Diocese of Pennsylvania ;) the Rev. Messrs. Flagg, Stearns, and 
Dashiell, (of the Diocese of Maryland,) the Rev. Mr. Allen, (of 
the Diocese of Mnssachusetts,) and the Rev. Mr. Boyd, (of the 
Diocese of Mississippi.) The single drawback of the occasion, 
was the absence, from indisposition, of the assistant Minister, 
the Rev. Professor Doane, whose unwearied labours had brought 
forward an excellent choir of men and boys, by whom the 
Psalter was chaunted antiphonally, and the w4iole music excel- 
lently sustained ; and in many other w'ays contributed to the 

Burlington, and thereby separate it from all unhallowed, -svorldly, and com- 
mon uses, and solemnly dedicate it to the holy purposes above mentioned. 

"'And we do, moreover, hereby relinquish all claim to any right of dispos- 
ing of the said building, or allowing of the use of it in any way inconsistent 
with the terms and true meaning of this instrument of donation, and with the 
consecration hereby requested of the Bishop of this Diocese. 

"In Testimony Whereof, We, the said Eector, Church-wardens, and 
Vestrymen, have caused this instrument of donation to have artuclied to it the 
seal of our Corporation, and our signatures, this seventh day of August, in the 
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. 

" G. W. Doane, Rector. 

" Thos. Milnor, Kobert B. Aertsen, Wardens. 

" F. Engle, Elias Howell, John Larzalere, William A. Rogers, Franklin 
Gauntt, Edw. B. Grubb, Vestrymen." 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



507 



order and beauty of the service. I shall undertake no description 
of the building. You have seen it. It speaks, for itself. It is, I 
believe, the first instance, in this country, of a cruciform Church, 
with a central tower and spire; all of which is of stone.f It does 
honour to the eminent architect, Mr. Eichard Upjohn. For 
solidity and durableness, the building can hardly be surpassed. 
Its promise of perpetuity is as great as can be predicated, of any 
work of man. From age to age, it will remain, I trust, a mon- 
ument of the faith, and a temple for the worship, of the One, 
Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. To have been an hum- 
ble instrument, in a work so gracious, is among the highest 
blessings of my life. To worship, while I live, within its walls; 
and to lie down, at last, within its shadow, are first and chief, 
among my prayers. Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, and 
the weekly administration of the Holy Communion, began, from 
the Consecration; and, I trust, w^ill never cease. 'Let Thy 
Priests, O God, be clothed with salvation ; and let Thy saints 
rejoice in goodness.' — Episcopal Address, 1855. 

f The land occupied by this new structure first came into the possession of 
the Cliurch, through the pious will of Paul Watkinson (see p. 267). The item 
reads : "I give and bequeath unto Mary Watkinson my Wife, my House and 
Lot where I now live [corner of Watkinson's alley and Pearl street extending 
to the river] and my little Orchard, joining the Church Yard, during her nat- 
ural life^ and after her decease my will is that my said House, Lot and 
Orchard shall go to the use of the Church called St. Annes Church in Bur- 
lington forever — but my Will and mind is that the House and Lot and 
Orchard be rented, and the rent thereof be put to interest and that same 
money be appropriated towards the building a Steeple to the said Church 
and then to the use of the said Church towards other Kepairs." 

The "little orchard" was leased to the corporators of the Burlington Acad- 
emy — see pp. 332-334 — who erected thereon a building of brick, in which was 
maintained, for thirty years, an English and Classical School of the highest 
order. The Principals of this Institution, as nearly as can be learned without 
records, were William Staughton, John Michael Hanckel, Christian Hanckel, 
Jonathan Price, Elias Crane, Cleanthes Felfth. 

At a meeting of the Building Committee of the new Church, January 4th, 
1847, Dr. Ellis i-eported " that in accordance with the instructions of the Com- 
mittee he had sold the Academy building for the sum of Four Hundred Dol- 
lars." In excavating for the foundations of the spire to be laid, Dr. Ellis 
says : " The workmen went to the depth of from nine to thirteen feet, until 
they reached enormous boulders — such as are found in the bed of the Dela- 
ware river." It is to this fact that Bishop Doane alludes in his Episcopal 
Address of 1848, when he says: "The new St. Mary's Church is sufficiently 
advanced to show its fine proportions, and majestic outline. Nothing that 
has been done in it, that has not been done for perpetuity. It will stand, 
while any human structure stands ; a rock, upon ' the Eock.' " 



508 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 

DIAGRAM OF THE NEW ST. MARY's CHURCH. 




a. Altar. 

b. Credence. 

c. Chancel Railing. 

d. Bishop's Chair. 

e. Sedilia. 

/. Bishop's Throne. 

g. g. Stalls. 

h. Pulpit, with canopy. 

i. Steps to pulpit. 
j. Lecturn. 



U 



Jx\ Font, with cover. 
I. Organ, in IS'orth tran- 
sept. 

m. Staircase to South 
gallery. 

n. Staircase to West gal- 
lery. 

0. "West door. 

jj. South porch. 

q. Door to Soutji tran- 
sept. 

r. Sacristy. 

s. East window. 



p 



ri 



IN BURLINGTON. 



509 



DIOCESIS 

NEO-aESARIENSIS. 

MEDITATIONES 

ANNO POST dedicatione:m 

ECCLESIuE 

SANCT.E MARI^ PAROCHIALIS, 

IN OPPIDO BURLINGTON, 
X. DIE AUGUSTI, A. D. M DCCCLV. 
OMNIBUS FIDELIBUS 
EX 

ANIMO GRATO — OBLAT^E. 

Rogate, qure 

ad p a c e m 

sunt Jerusa- 
lem : e t a- 

b u n d a n t i a 

diligentib us 
te. Fiat pax in virtute tua : et abundantia 
in turribus tuis. Propter fratres meos, et 
proximos meos loquebor pacem de te : 
Propter domum Domini Dei nostri quaeram. 

bona tibi. 

Gloria Patri, 

et Filio : et 

Spirit ui 

Sancto : Si- 

cut erat in 

principio, et 

nunc, et sem- 

p e r : e t in 

ssecula s?e- 

c u 1 o r u m . 

AMEN, 



510 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



IN M E M O E I A M 

DEDICATIONIS ECCLESI.T: SANCT.^ 



MARINE 

FAROCHIALIS, IN OPPIDO BURLINGTON, ET DIOCESI NEO-C-ESARIENSI ; 
X DIE AUGUSTI, A. D. M DCCC LIY. 

Sursum Corda ! Celebrantes 

Fratres in Sacrario ! 
Trino grates Deo d antes 

Hilari cum gaudio. 

Bis sex menses evaserunt, 

Quo, voce antipbona, 
Sacerdotes intraverunt 

Hujus templi limina. 

Domini, quidquid in terris 

Et in coelis Domini ! 
Testis hujus stat hsec turris 

Cui vix astra termini. 

Inter Fratres Fide claros 

Architectus prodeat ! 
Formans lapides tam raros, 

Ut figura placeat. 

Sancta Crux in fundamento — ' [ 

Robur ?edificii. 
Crux sublimis in ascendo 

Ardet apex capiti ! 

Tuta Stant — stant et concinna 

Intra et extra moenia. 
Fulmina non et procella 

Lffidunt Castra coelica. 

Aestus pariter ac frigus 
. Nonnisi corroborant, 
Apte quod exstruxit manus 
Arcliitecti, et collaudant. 

Et nunc iterum adeste 

In choro Fidelium : 
Salvatore Jesu Teste, 

Ferte novum Canticum ! 

Ecce parvulos infantes, 

Fontem cingunt mysticum : 
Aquis — per Fidem — lavantes 

Omne cordis nocuum ! 



m BURLINGTON. 



511 



Sic renati in lavacro 

Christi scholam adeunt. 
Semen bonum tenent agro ; 

Postmodo fructus ferunt. 

Bene docti in prjeceptis 

Jesu Evangelii, 
Ad aram divis sub armis 

Stant Christi discipuli. 

Sacramentum renovantes 

In lavacro conditum, 
Manu Apostoli portantes 

Donum septenarium. 

Opas Stat corona cinctum! 

KesonatTEISAGION! 
A Sexcentis, Sacro Sanctum 

Replens eJf ai6viov. A, Fkost, PresFr. 

MRS. SUSAN y. BRADFORD. 

" Mrs. Bradford f removed, from Philadelphia, to BurliDgton, 
with her aged and venerable father, in 1805. He died, in 1821, 
in the eighty-second year of his age. She was long a communi- 
cant of St. Mary's Church, Burlington ; where she was con- 
firmed, by Bishop Doane, in 1834. She died, on St. Andrew'^ 
Day, 30 November, 1854; far advanced in her ninetieth year. 

t " Susan Vergereau, eldest daughter of the Honorable Elias Boudinot, was 
born, at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, December 21, (St. Thomas' Day,) 1764. 
He was President of the Congress of the United States, in 1783 ; and, in that 
capacity, signed the Treaty of Peace, with Great Britain. Her mother was 
Hannah, daughter of John Stockton, Esq., of Princeton, New Jersey ; and 
sister of Eichard Stockton, one of the Signers of the Declaration of American 
Independence. The great-grandfather of her father, was a Huguenot, by the 
namie of Oudinot; who left France, for England, on the revocation of the 
Edict of Nantes : and took the name of Boudinot, under letters patent, from 
the Crown, in 1686. He, afterwards, came to America. His confidence, in 
the restitution of his family, to their native land, was so great, that, by his 
last will, he regularly devised his estates, there, as if still in possession of 
them ; though, they had, long before, been confiscated, and sold, 

She was of sufficient age, to feel, and to remember, the trials, and incidents, 
of the struggle for independence ; and, with her distinguished father, shared 
the fortunes of her country. An occurrence of her childhood, is characteristic 
of her spirit, while it illustrates her patriotism. Passing the evening, at Gov- 
ernor Franklin's, in Burlington, soon after the seizure of the tea, in Boston har- 
bour, a cup of tea was offered to her ; which she declined. When it was so 
pressed, that farther refusal would have been rude, she took it ; touched it to 
her lips, without swallowing a drop of it ; and, crossing the room, emptied it, 
from the window. She was nine years old. The family, on one occasion, were 
surprised by a party of the British ; and robbed. After remonstrating with 
the oflficer, in command, she told him, that her aunt, who was with them, had 
asked protection. " Not, by your advice, I presume ; " said the officer. " That 
it never was, I can tell you ;" was her prompt reply. The girl was mother of 
the woman." — Bishop Doane. 



512 



HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH 



Born, on one Saint's Day, and dying, on another, she was saintly, 
in all her life ; and waits, with Saints, the coming of her Lord. 
She was buried, in the Church-yard of St. Mary's, Burlington, 
on the second day of December ; in the midst of relatives, and 
friends, and neighbors, who loved, and honoured, and lamented, 
her." — Bishop Doane. 

PLUCKI^s^G OUT THE EIGHT EYE." 

''On Saturday, 15 September, I was brought to know what 
that means, of which we read in the Holy Scripture, about cut- 
ting off the right hand, and plucking out the right eye. It was 
my dreadful duty to pronounce Sentence of Deposition, from the 
Ministry, on my eldest son, and first-born child ; whom I had 
admitted to the Diaconate, with such sacred joy, not seven 
mouths before. t The record is as follows : ' To all, everywhere, 
who are in communion with the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apos- 
tolic Church : Be it known, that George Hobart Doane, M. D.^ 
Deacon of this Diocese, having declared to me, in writing, his 
^'enunciation of the ministry, which he received, at my hands, 
from the Lord Jesus Christ, and his design not to officiate, in 
future, in any of the offices thereof, intending to submit himself 
to the schismatical Roman intrusion, is deposed from the Min- 
istry ; and I hereby pronounce and declare him deposed, in the 
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. 
Amen. Given at Riverside, this fifteenth day of September, in 
the year of our Lord, 1855, and in the twenty-third year of my 
Consecration. 

"'G. W. Doane, D. D., LL. D., 

" ' Bishop of New Jersey. 

'' ' In the presence of 

" ' M. Mahan, D. D., Presbyter; 
" ' M. F. Hyde, A. M., Presbyter: 

f " On the 4 March, 1855, (Ember Sunday in Lent,) at the stated ordina- 
tion, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, I admitted Robert F. Chase, Tutor in 
Burlington College, and George Hobart Doane, A. M., M. D,, Instructor in 
Chemistry, in Burlington College and St. Mary's Hall, to the Holy Order of 
Deacons ; and the Eev. Franklin Babbitt, Deacon, Assistant Minister of 
Christ Church, Elizabethtown, to the Holy Order of Priests. ^ - The 
Bev. Dr. Doane is Assistant to the Bector of Grace Church, Xewark. In his 
admission, I have given, of my own flesh, the second Deacon, to the Church ; 
and, in the two brothers, all I have. God be thanked, for the permission to- 
devote them, to His service." — Episcopal Address, 1855. 



IN BURLINGTON. 



513 



" This sentence was not executed^ until the provisions of the 
Canon, ^ where the party has acted unavisedly and hastily/ 
which is pre-eminently the present case, had been offered, urged 
and refused. It only remains, for me, humbly to ask the 
prayers of the faithful, in Christ Jesus, that my erring child 
may be brought back, to the way of Truth and Peace; and, for 
myself, that I may have grace, to bear and do the holy will 
of God. 

'^G. W. DOANE.^' 

^' Not because I have anything to gain, nor, because I have 
anything more to lose — the heart-wound of this loss must go 
with me, into the grave; and bring me sooner, there — but, sim- 
ply, because the truth alone is always true, I shall briefly recite 
the leading circumstances of what, I deem, a case, peculiar, and 
by itself. God will, I trust, sustain me, for His Church's sake, 
in an anatomy, more agonizing, than the dissection of my own 
heart strings. My darling child was, from his birth, impulsive 
and impetuous, beyond any one, whom I have ever known. 
He is of a candid, generous, and noble nature. And, through 
the heavenly grace, vouchsafed to him, his impulses w^ere never 
toward vice. He was carefully taught and trained, as a child 
of the Church : and brought up in its atmosphere. I challenge 
contradiction, when I assert, that there is not a house, on earth, 
that can be less imbued with sympathy with Rome, than that, 
in which he lived, for five and twenty years. And, for myself, 
of all the falsehoods, which have ever been imagined, and 
alleged, a tendency towards Rome is the one, which, my deepest 
impressions, and clearest conclusions, not only, but the very in- 
stincts of my nature, make impossible. It was in the air, which 
my poor child had always breathed, that Winslow, when, at 
Cambridge, he was almost lost, found health and strength ; and 
was restored to duty and to truth. If he had a special admira- 
tion, it was for Bishop Hobart; whose name he bears. And 
the churchmen, of his sympathy, were such as Dr. Ogilby, and 
Dr. Croswell, and Dr. Mahan. From his childhood, he inclined 
to Surgery. And, when his education, at Burlington, was com- 
pleted, became a student, at Jefferson College, in Philadelphia; 

2k 



514 



HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



and the private pupil of that distinguished Surgeon, Dr. Mutter. 
He was confirmed early ; and had long been a devout communi- 
cant. When he had completed his first course of Medical 
lectures, he asked me, to use his own expression, if I ' thought 
him good enough,' to permit him to change his profession ; and 
study for the Ministry. I told him, that I had no doubt, as to 
his religious character ; and that the wish gratified me. But, 
that I feared, it was a hasty impression ; more promoted, than 
he was aware of, by the hardness and disagreeableness of the 
first year's pursuits and occupations ; and suggestive of an insta- 
bility, which, in minor matters, was characteristic of him; and, 
in one so grave, would involve the most serious risk. I re- 
minded hiui, that he was young ; that he was pursuing the pro- 
fession of his choice ; that it would qualify him for greater and 
more extensive usefulness, in any other line of life, which he 
might adopt; and, that he should, by all means, now^ that he 
had begun, go through with it. And I promised him, that, if, 
when his Medical education was complete, he was still of the 
same mind, I would entertain the proposition. He did not re- 
vive the conversation. He received the degree of Doctor of 
Medicine, in Philadelphia. He went abroad, for nearly a year 
and a half ; much of which he spent, in the hospitals, at Paris 
and Vienna ; and he came back, as I believe, well qualified and 
well furnished, for that department of his profession, wdiicli he 
had chosen, as his speciality, diseases of the eye. At the first 
convenient opportunity, he renewed his former proposal; said 
that he had great searchings of heart, on the subject, wdiile 
abroad ; spoke of the urgent want of clergymen, and especially 
of such as were not entirely dependent on their ministrations, 
for the means of support : and said, again, that, if I thought 
him fit for it, his heart's desire was to become a candidate for 
holy orders. I admitted the obligation of my promise, to enter- 
tain the subject: but, again, reminded him that his nature was 
unstable ; that the change w-as a very serious one ; that the step 
once taken was irrevocable : and said, I must take time to con- 
sider it. I kept him off, for several months : until I saw that 
he would not enter on the medical profession ; that his whole 



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time was occupied in theological reading; and, that he felt hurt 
at, what, he thought, was, a distrust, in me, of his religious prin- 
<;iples. After most thoughtful consideration, on my own part, 
and consultation, with those, who knew him best, and were best 
•qualified to judge, I consented to his desire: and he became a 
candidate for holy orders. I never saw one more delighted 
with his studies, or more in earnest. He was, literally, ' totus 
■in illis.^ As a Sunday School Teacher, and as a District Visi- 
tor, he was foremost, in every good work ; and, while, yet, he 
was a layman, was doing, as far as might be, the service of a 
Deacon. In his recitations, to the several instructors, in the- 
ology, he was, always, satisfactory ; and, in the homiletic exer- 
■cises, before me, eminently so. His examination was all that 
could be desired. His whole life had been passed, under the 
shadow of the Altar. He seemed to have found his place, at its 
foot. It was the happiest day of my life, when I knelt, before 
it; and could say, to Him, Whose sacrifice it commemorates, 
^ behold I, and the children, which Thou hast given me.' After 
remaining, a few weeks, with me, perfectly happy in the exer- 
cise of his Diaconate, as he had opportunity ; and, especially, in 
serving me, on rny Visitation, he went to Newark, at the earn- 
est and repeated desire of the Rector of Grace Church, enforced 
by the wish of some of the best and dearest friends, that man 
has ever had, to be the Deacon of that parish. He went to work, 
as his way always was, with all his might. He was especially 
devoted to children, to the young, to the poor, to the sick, to the 
afflicted. He found his way to the hearts, as well as to the 
hearths. And he was forecasting — before the time, no doubt, 
and with a natural inability to wait — the largest plans, for every 
form and aspect of the Church's work. It seemed to be a great 
success: and, in three years, I am very sure, it would have been. 
On Friday, 30 July, he came, with his Rector's consent, for a 
short week. He is a loving child ; and dearly loved his home, 
and every thing about it. He never was more loving. He 
never was so happy. He never was so devoted to every interest 
of the house, of the parish, of the schools, of the diocese, of the 
whole Church. And, at the same time, he never was so tender, 



516 



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to every one, and about every thing. In that week, tlie inteli- 
gence came, that one whom he had pitied, and been interested 
in, had gone to Rome. He spoke of it, in the severest terms; 
and, that, to those of his own age and standing. There was 
nothing special, in this. He had been brought up, so. I mav 
say, that he was born, so. In Rome, when he was there, he saw 
nothing to attract him. He wouki not see Bishop Ives, whom 
he had known, as only not a brother to his father. He was 
tempted by no courtesies, on the part of Mr. Manning, who had 
been his father's special friend. AVhen Bishop Hopkins' able 
work, ^the End of Controversy Controverted,' came out, he 
read it, with the utmost avidity, again and again; and insisted 
on my thanking him for it. He left home, on the following 
Saturday, 4 August, with great reluctance. He parted from me, 
at six, in the evening, with my kiss and blessing. He could 
not have reached Xewark, before 9 o'clock. And, before he 
slept, he had gone to the intruding representative of the Bishop 
of Rome; and had taken his counsel, as to any further ministra- 
tion in the communion of his father. He wrote, on Monday, 
to his brother, that he had doubted, as to the authority of his 
ministry; and had asked advice, of one, who calls himself the 
Bishop of Xewark.t I sent for him, at once. And he came to 
me, on Tuesday night, a Papal petriiication : his fine feelings all 
frozen up, and his beautiful features hardened into marble : so 
that two, who Imd known him, from his childhood, said, on 
Sunday, before one word was known of what had taken place, 
the night before, that his countenance was stone. To love, to 
duty, to devotedness, he continued inaccessible. And, he is, 
now, at Rome, his natural feelings, I am glad to say, restored, 
a Student, in a College, which has been founded, there, for Eng- 
lish perverts. If I am asked to explain this strange and in- 
stantaneous transmutation, I must do it, in his own words ; and 
leave it, to whoever will, to frame the theory. To one, he said, 
that, ^ it flashed across his mind, in the train, after he had left me, 
that his ministry might not be valid.' To another, that he 
^ felt something snap, in his head.' To me, that he left the 



T .James Eoosevelt Bayley, D. D. 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



517 



house of his Rector, to whom he gave no word or sign of inti- 
mation of his doubts, ' in a state of perfect frenzy/ and went to 
that of Bishop Bayley ; in doing which, instead of coming to me, 
he, afterwards, admitted, that he did wrong. But, he is the 
child of many tears and many prayers ; and there is still hope, 
that he may come 'to himself.' That it may be so, I humbly 
ask your fervent supplications." — Episcopal Address, 1856. 

GIFT FEOM THE EEY. ADOLPH FEOST. 

The 2d Yol. of Biblia Sacra, in the choir stalls of St. 
Mary's Church, has, on its first leaf, as follows : 

''This IP Volume of the Old Testament in the Hebrew and 
Latin languages is to remain in the stalls for the reverential 
perusal of any Brother in the Holy Ministry of Christ, by the 
free and good will of 

"Burlington, "Adolph FEOST;t 

" St. Mary's Sacristy ; Priest in the 

May 3^ A" 1856. ''Church of God." 

MUSIC WITH THE DAILY PEAYERS. 

^'Daily morning and evening prayers, with the full music; the 
■children of both Schools attending, as they do also the Sunday 
services. The Holy Eucharist on every Lord's day and every 
Holy day. A night service, with a sermon and congregational 
practicing on the eve of every Saint's day, and every Thursday 
evening. Public catechising, after evening prayer, on the first 
Sunday in each month ; and after morning prayer on the Saints' 

f In liis Episcopal Address for 1865, Bp. Odenheimer says : In our own 
Diocese * * we mourn * tlie learned yet cliild-Iike 

Adolph Frost, who loved this Diocese none the less though he sojourned in 
his father land, in the fair City of Heilbronn, on the banks of the Xecker. 

^ ^ " The earlier students of Burlington College will never forget 
their leader — fall of learned lore and priestly zeal ; and the little children will 
wait in vain for the appearance of the quaint and apostolic looking man who 
in his morning walks towards the House of Prayer, courted their recognition 
and accounted their mere salutation or caress as a real benediction on his 
daily work. God's blessing rest on the memory of Frost, and may we through 
Jesus, merit a share in his lot, who loved so fervently the name and Cross 
of Christ, and illustrated in his daily life of innocence the Master's saying : 
* Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into 
the Kingdom of God.' " 



518 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



(lays and every "Wedoesday and Friday. The Parish Schook- 
do admirable work for Christ and the Church. Miss Anna 
Blackney lias charge of the girls, and Mrs. Forgus of the boys. 
The schools are open to all ; and gather in. the children of the 
poor. They are taught the catechism and the Church's system 
of religious training, sacred vocal music, and a plain English 
education. One of the older girls assists, in the care of the 
girls' school, faithfully and usefully. The District Visitors f 

T^PLAX FOR DTSTEICT VISITING. 

" The persons in cliarge of tlie Tarions district? vrill consider tliemselves 
responsible to God. through the ministers of tlie Pari-!i ' • ^ - ^ ^- l iersons 
living in their district, and requiring assistance : tliL-;r - i.^e St. 

Paul's; tending, though not to the exclusion of o:hci'-, :j j'.v--.cnce of 
Church families — 'Do good unto all men. especiallv unto such as are of the 
household of faith.' 

'■'The frequency of visi - "V- 'er a sense of their reip'Or.-iV.Mry can be best 
regulated by the Visitors i!.-, ..,-_.v>js : from their gciK-r::! txperienct and tlieir 
acquaintance with the peculiar necessities of the families to be relieved. 

''All new cases should be reported to the Clergy as soon an'l a~ rninnrely as 
possible; and a general report of all cases relieve- :': j ibe laanner and 
the amount of relief, should be made in writing. ' ' n 1 Saturday, 

from 3 to 4 o'clock p. x., at the Vestry room of the 'J. . l i. ;i i 

"The Visitors will obtain from the .\ssistant Minister tlie ertain 
families, to whom they may send persons, in their district. : . _ ii raeat, 
clothes, &c. ; and a card, signed by the Visitor, stating their most urgent: 
wants, should in all cases he sent by them. 

'■'Cases of spiritual want mu~r be carefully, and ■ ' ' i into: and 

reported v:ithout delay, to one of the Clergy, to be _ era, 

Money must be rarely and sparingly given ; auM i.i^ a jinr.iuns :-hould first 
be given to one of the Clergy, to insure their equal distribution. 

The amount of other things, varying of course with the number and needs 
of different families, may be graduated from the following am - '.u:-. f r a 
family of six : — J cord of wood or + ton of coal, not ofcener than iLree times 
during the five months : 6 lbs. of flour, 4 of Indian meal, 1 lb. of tea [Ot 1 lb. 
of coffee) and 1 lb. of brown sugar, with now and then 3 lbs. of porij or a 
peck of potatoes, and in cases of sickness. 1 lb, of rice or 1 ll\ <:'f ra iker-. The 
groceries may be got for the upper part of the town from the ~: : _ i ? ir. Wm. 
A. Hogers, and for the lower part of the town from Mr. Ah:::. -V. L rzelere :. 
coal and wood from Thomas Milnor, Esq.: and medicii-— /: Mr. F. 
Brother. The accounts should stand in the name of the As-i-rani Aliuister,. 
and the printed order should be always used, 

"disteicts axd visitors. 



1. Delaware St. from Wood to St. 
Mary's. Mrs. Hyde. 

"il. Pearl St. from the Sluice to 
Stacy. Miss Watson. 

" ill. Pearl St, from Stacy to the 
Eiver ; and St. Mary's from Pearl to 
Broad. Misses Aertsen. 

•'IV. Union St, from Main to St. 
Mary's. Miss Heiskelb 



" V. Broad St. from Talbot to Stacye 
Mi-~e- Boudinot. 

'^ VI. Federal St. from AFdn i.Verk. 
Mrs, Cleveland and Ali^s Foote. 

" VII. Federal St, from York, and 
Tavlorsville, Geo. H. F)oane. 

'' VIII. Wood St, with the Alley.=. 
and Temperance Eow. ]\Ii;s Doane. 

'•IX. Broad St. from Stacv to the 
Creek; and Greene St, Ali-., Cole,, 



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have been fall of their \Yorks of mercy^ through the winter ; 
and have a supervision of the girl's school, particularly in the 
instruction in sewing;. The Bible class is under the charge of 
the Rector's Assistant. The music of the Church is admirable. 
The introduction of the ancient plain song makes it really con- 
gregational worship ; and the choir have made beautiful the 
service of song in God's house, with anthems and services, 
exquisitely rendered. Mr. Alfred Shapter is still the organist; 
and the choristers, nine men, three women, and seven boys, 
sing, for God's glory, and for love's sake. Mr. Frost's faithful 
assistance is still most acceptable in the Parish." — Parochial 
Report, 1856. 

OPEXIXG OF ST. BARXABAS' CHAPEL. 

On Sunday evening, 30, (Advent Sunday, and St. Andrew's 
Day,) 1856, I opened St. Barnabas' Free Mission Chapel, in 
Burlington, with appropriate services. * * This 

movement, undertaken, by my son, after long consideration and 
deep reflection, has my consent, approbation, and blessing. It 
is a work, loudly called for. For years, I have looked to a 
Missionary Station, in the Eastern portion of the City, as due to 
its increasing population, not only ; but to the peculiar circum- 
stances of the locality. It would have been begun, two years 
ago ; if a suitable place for the services could have been had. 
That is supplied, for the present, by the vacancy of the Public 
School House, on the corner of the Church property; a new^ 
one having been erected. The. Pev. William Crosv\^ell Doane 
having ceased to be my Assistant, in St. jMary's Church, has 
been appointed Priest of the Mission. The building has been 
purchased, and fitted up, for religious services : and, so far as its 



X. York St. from the Eiver to 
Broad St. Mrs. Dr. Ganntt. 

''XI. York St. from Broad to Fed- 
eral, and Clarkson St. from York to 
St. Mary's. Miss Parks. 

"XII. York St. from Federal to 
Belmont, Belmont and Pudding Lane. 

Miss Blacknev. 



"XIII. Stacv St. from Pearl to Bel- 
mont ; and Earl's Court. 

Misses Swann. 

" XIY. Main St. from Broad ; and 
Wrights ville. Mrs. Haven. 

"XY. Dillwvn St. and Underhill's 
Pvow. Miss Mitchell & Miss Wistar." 



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capacity extends, is very well adapted to that use.f There are 
four services there, every Sunday ; and the evening service, 
every day. Nothing is spared, that much experience and unre- 
served devotion can contribute, to a favorable result; and with 
God, to bless it, that is certain. Its sole reliance for support, is 
on voluntary Offerings. The building, on the night of opening, 
was crowded to excess. The services were of deep and solemn 
interest. And the pleasure expressed by the people, to whose 
immediate neighbourhood, the ministrations of the Church had, 
thus, been brought, could not be misunderstood."! — Episcopal 
Address, 1857. 

THE LAST DAYS OP BISHOP DOAXE. 

'^During the winter," writes the Rev. William Croswell 
Doane, of his father, " we had noticed now and then, a weariness 
of walk and look. But he was never fresher-hearted, never 
fuller of vigour of mind, never freer in the luxuriance of grace- 
ful thought. His cable speech, and ^ cable song;^ his Washing- 
ton oration, his last address at St. Mary's Hall, are among his 
greatest works. He spoke oftener, of being tired, and went 
earlier to bed. But no thought or fear of what it meant, ever 
crossed our hearts. He had conquered so many times ; his 
strength of soul and body were so superhuman ; his necessity to 
us, to all his work, to all God's work, was so great, that no one 
ever thought, he could die. And in such an atmosphere, of 

f "The congregation lias largely ontgrown the Chapel, and the commence- 
ment of a new Chapel is needed and intended, at once. Alterations since last 
year have added about twenty-two sittings. But the congregation numbers 
300, and the Chapel seats 220. A girls' school has been added, and the two 
schools are most faithfully and successfully taught. Only six children of the 
Mission, are in the public schools. The music is congregational, hearty and 
devotional, led by a choir of boys and girls, under the training of Mr. George 
S. Lewis, whose devotion and ability, are given without salary, for the 
glory of God. About $175.00, was obtained outside the Mission, for the alter- 
tions spoken of. There is no Sunday School connected with the Mission. The 
children of the Parish Schools are taught by their own Teachers, on Sunday ; 
and the few other children, by the Priest. All are catechised openly, every 
Lord's Day." — Parochial Report, 1857. 

J "On Saturday, 27 November, 1858, the Bishop dedicated the School 
Chapel of St. Barnabas' Free Mission, in Burlington. The request for dedica- 
tion was read by the Rev. William Croswell Doane, Priest of the Mission, and 
the sentence of dedication by the Rev. Edward M. Pecke." — Bishop Do ane^ s 
Journal. 



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521 



sacred sorrow, of unusual pleasure, of serene refreshment, of 
gathering, growing peace, the winter passed awav, through what 
he called ^the old and new yearns isthmus," till the spring 
brought his visitation duties, again. Closely and constantly 
confined with the examinations at the two Schools, he wrote his 
address to the graduates, on the morning of the day it was de- 
livered. ' I had not one idea,^ he told me afterwards, ' till I 
went out and saw your bees, this morning.' And after all the 
weariness of that day, he set off so early the next morning, to 
his month of work, that our parting kiss and blessing, were over 
night. The visitation, entered on, as all his notices ran ^if it 
please God,' covered thirty-two parishes, and was to be made in 
twenty-one days. He visited fifteen. During the last week of 
incessant storm, he was in the most exposed parts of the Diocese, 
near the seashore, and travelling only in carriages. His last 
day's work, included Shrewsbury, Middletown, and Eed Bank. 
And in Trinity Church, Eed Bank, on the evening of the fifth 
Sunday in Lent, (Passion Sunday) April 16th, he ofiiciated for 
the last time, preaching his last sermon from those great words, 
' The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life 
through Jesus Christ, our Lord with these last solemn words, 
that close it, ' Thou, who didst die for us and rise again, bid us 
to die to sin, help us to rise to righteousness ; that bearing here 
Thy cross, we may hereafter share Thy Crown.' ^Ye had not 
looked for him at home, until "Wednesday. But news of the 
death, at Mt. Holly, of his old and beloved friend, the Senior 
Presbyter of the Diocese, Dr. Morehouse, hastened him back. 
He had made a day, among his last at home, to go to him, with 
sympathy and cheer, and the Church's words of comfort. And 
when his death was announced, he came at once, to be there for 
the burial. When I first saw him, in the garden with a bunch 
of flowers, he seemed weary, and stiff, and lame. And at din- 
ner, everything was an effort, and he was subdued, and quiet, 
and worn. He went at once to bed. Still he counted on goino^ 
to Mt. Holly, the next day, and told me how to arrange his 
plans. AVe thought but little of it. Exposure and fatigue 
seemed fully to account for it; and after one day's just such ill- 



522 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



ness, a month before, he had left home for a visitatioo, at 
sunrise, the next morning. Bat in the morning, he could not 
leave his bed ; for the painfulness and helplessness of the rheu- 
matism. Still he would have me go, and lying there, forgot 
his suffering, to writef a line of sympathy, by me, to those, who 
wept over their father's coffin. Until Thursday night, he was 
almost, just the same. We saw no alarm. He thought the 
most of it, but said very little. Indeed, until the very last, our 
only cause of alarm seemed his unwillingness to put ofP, his long- 
ing for rest, and God^s gracious purpose of giving it to him. On 
Thursday night, he was more ill : and when I came in from 
Evening Prayer, told me he ' was very sick,^ and begged me to 
pray with him. Again he was better, giving various directions, 
postponing, most reluctantly, and only one by one, his appoint- 
ments ; but subduing, by silence or by contradiction, our hope- 
ful and confident assurance that he was less ill than he thought, 
and already somewhat better. But on "Wednesday, for the first 
time we were alarmed, and from that he grew gradually worse. 
On Maundy Thursday morning, his thoughts wandered to his 
visitation, but came back to us when we spoke ; and that night, 
the end began. Towards midnight, his mind was more thor- 
oughly, and for a longer time, unhinged. And all through 
Good Friday, our hearts were darkened by the veil that hid us 
from his mind. He was communing with God, and his own 
soul. Step by step, in his ' sublime delirium,^ with burning 
words of eloquence, he talked to his Parishioners, of their duty 
in obeying the Church, of the need of more frequent and better 
attended services ; and of the duty to support the services in all 
their details. His speech was clear and forcible, and full of 
strength, all set to his loving tones of earnest, anxious pleading, 
and in perfect unison with the teaching of his life. As the 
night vraned, he was in his Convention, with all the majesty and 
power of his eloquence, stirring them, to a maintenance of the 
great Catholic principles of the Church, against the insidious 
approaches of the enemy, on grounds of compromise and popular 
favour. And through that long and bitter day of the Passion, 



t "It Avas his last note; a type of his life-long love and sympathy." w. c. D. 



IN BUELINGTON. 52S 

utterly uncontrolled hy reason, and yet so perfectly himself, he 
was on his visitation, and wanting to get home. Bat when ex- 
hausting struggles stretched his weakness on the bed, he was with 
his class in Theology, dividing those blessed texts, of unity, and 
God^s love, and Jesu's prayers and promises, in the last chapters 
of St. John's Gospel, often with a directness and force of argu» 
ment that sanity could not have improved. That delirium was 
a most amazing thing. It was God's own witness to the single- 
mindedness, the absorption in duty, the devotion to holy works^ 
of his long life. There was no reason to control, there was no 
thought of approbation, there was no room for any motive what- 
soever; but the burning, glowing, glorious, God-like thoughts, 
that had been born, and grown, and lived ever, in his brain, let 
loose, with no directing hand, poured out a torrent of earnest, 
kindling eloquence, and his soul uttered itself, before God. In 
it, all concealments of policy, or propriety, or hesitation were 
removed : and his soul, and heart, and mind lay open, and there 
was nothing there, but love of God, devotion the Church,, 
anxiety for souls, f ' Delirium ensued ; a noble, generous delir- 
ium, in which the mind was not so much unhinged, as unveiled ; 
in which the great pastoral heart, that had throbbed so long for 
the Diocese of New Jersey, and the Parish of St. Mary's, for St. 
Mary's Hall, and for Burlington College, . poured itself out, 
Avithout measure and without restraint : in which the Christian 
warrior fought his battles over again, in appeals, in remonstran- 
ces, in prayers, in words of burning eloquence and sententious 
pith. It looked as if reason had resigned the chair for a season, 
merely that it might be seen how noble and well ordered those 
faculties were, over which it ordinarily presided.' There could 
not be higher testimony to the power of his mind, the unselfish- 
ness of his heart, the purity of his soul. And with the blessed 
Easter Even, rest came to him ; the calm, still, quiet, child-like 
sleep that brought on Easter day, such dreams of hope to all 
our hearts. J As the night drew on he said to his most faithful^ 

t The Kev. Dr. Malian. 

X His visitation appointment, for Easter Eve, Avas at St. Barnabas' Chapel? 
Burlington, w. c. d. 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



loving servant, ' This is Easter-Eve, I should have been at St. 
Barnabas, to-night/ And so the Easter light grew brighter, 
hopefully to the watchers, peacefully for him. But he was not 
a sharer in our hope. Ereoi the beginning, God seemed to have 
revealed to him the promise of rest. And he lay down content, 
thankful, as though he would not break the peace that gathered 
on his soul, by any effort to be well. Our selfish entreaties were in 
vain. ^ I cannot create a will.,' he said to his physician, only 
not his son in all love and devoted tenderness, ^ if I had one, I 
would use it, but I cannot create a will.' When one of his 
physicians asked him what was his prevailing feeling, he said 
* stillness.' ^ You mean a sense of wretchedness,' the doctor said. 
But my father corrected him most earnestly, ' no, not wretched- 
ness, doctor, but just stillness.' He was waiting so, to see the 
-salvation of God. No pain wrung any murmur from his lips. 
His gentle 'thank you ' which eyes and lips both said, followed 
•each dose of medicine. ' God be praised for that,' he said, when, 
we gave him iced water. And so with a halo of patient joy, 
-that went out from him, through his sick room, he waited and 
waited for the end. On Easter Tuesday night, (April 26,) the 
last change came but it did not touch his mind. He was self-pos- 
sessed and undisturbed. And when at 4 o'clock on Wednesday 
morning, I waked him for his medicine, and saw the change, and 
asked him if he would receive the Blessed Communion, he said, in 
his old, life-long-, quiet, gentle, loving way, ' Yes, darling boy, it 
had better be at once.' And so we gathered round his bed. It 
was Croswell's Communion Service. There was the triumph of 
the Easter Preface, with the Angel's Hymn. His eye on mine, 
his low voice taking all its part, his deep look of love, as he 
took the sacred elements from his f child's hand; his faltering 
voice, in the benediction of peace, which he pronounced himself, 
.giving to us in part, what fully, God so soon should give to him ; 
■his calm self-possession, confidence without presumption, quiet- 

t And -when my days are numbered all, 
And all my labours done, 
My death-bed. with the Church's prayer^. 
Console and cheer, my son. 

G. w, D. to w. c. D., 1S44. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



525. 



ness without insensibility^ and then, one by one, to the many of 
his beloved, that were near at hand, the kiss, and word of love 
and blessing : these are the memories of that morning, fadeless 
while life lasts. And then he was alone, with the nearest and 
dearest of his own name, and his own doctor, and his faithful 
servant. t There were such wise and anxious words about the 
work, he loved so, and was leaving ; such messages of love to 
his hearths darling that was away ; such utterances of love for 
those who were near him ; such divine faith ; such perfect 
human love ; such a precious blessing for us all. As each ap- 
proached, one by one, he left off the silent communion of his con- 
templation; and all love's memories came fresh before him ; ^My 
dear sweet Archdeacon,! are you here, too ; God bless you ^ tO' 
one, his tried and true friend, who always bore that name ; and 
to his darling grand-child, ' My little pleasant angel, God bless- 
you.^ Hour by hour, the day passed on ; that our love longed 
to lengthen intp years. ^ How long is it?^ he said so often, 
and ^ now I must go home,^ and then would come more words 
of love, of gratitude to the faithful and devoted skill that tried^ 
and would have died, to save his life ; ^ God bless you, dearest 
Doctor, you have done all that man's skill and devotion could 
do.' And then his soul went back to catch the ever nearing 
glimpse of rest and peace. Twice more, he turned from it, to 
us, for words of faith and love. ^ I die in the Faith of the Son 
of God, and in the confidence of His One Catholic and Apostolie 
Church. I have no merits; no man has, but my trust is in the 
mercy of Jesus.' And from the clear, calm utterance of these 
Xicean words, his voice lowered, and his hands were lifted, 
< Unto God's gracious mercy and protection, I commit you. 
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face to- 
shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up 
his countenance upon you, and give you peace both now and for 

f " ' Michael,' who was a part of Eiverside, has a "warm place in the hearts 
of all my father's friends ; in life, the most faithful servant, with no interest, 
but his master's; in sickness, and death, the untiring, devoted nurse; the 
loving, dearly-loved friend." w. c. D. 

iThe Eev. Frederick Ogilby, D. J)., whom he was accustomed to call his- 
"Archdeacon." 



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>8vermore.' And as he gave us peace, God gave it fully to him. 
There was only quiet after this ; the pressure of the hand, the 
^eye that took in each of us, in turn, into its depth of love, his 
grateful acceptance, and his earnest Amen, to the prayer for his 
departing soul. And at ten minutes before- one, God let his ser- 
vant depart in peace/*' — Life and Writings of Bishop Doane, 
Vol. I, pp. 514-518. 

PREAMBLE AXD EESOLUTIOXS OF THE WARDENS AXD YESTRY- 

MEx OF ST. Mary's church. 

"Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, in His wise 
providence, to take out of this world the soul of our deceased 
Bishop and Rector, the Rt. Rev. George Doaxe, D. D., 
LL. D. ; and whereas, his life was devoted to the service of his 
Divine Master, and his labors were incessant while he lived ; 
and whereas, he was the instructor of the uninformed ; the pro- 
tector and friend of the humble and destitute ; the comforter of 
the desolate ; the adviser of the weak and erring ; and minister 
and father for all : we, the Wardens and Vestrymen of St. 
Mary's Church, Burlington, New Jersey, who have so often and 
-so recently met him at this council-board, who, having been in 
intimate daily intercourse with him for a long series of years, 
,and knowing him best, lament him most, and who now so poign- 
antly realize his absence on this mournful occasion ; for our- 
selves, and for those we represent, deem it proper to manifest 
some expression, however feeble and inadequate, of our profound 
sorrow — Therefore, 

"1. JResoIved, That while we bow in humble submission to 
His will, who, for some good cause, has seen fit ' to visit us with 
trouble, and to bring distress upon us,' we desire to record these 
expressions of our profound respect and love for our late Rt. 
Rev. Father and Rector. 

" 2. Resolved, That during the period of the twenty-seven years 
of his Episcopate, and the twenty-six of his Rectorship of this 
Church, he faithfully discharged with the greatest acceptance, 
all his duties as Bishop of this Diocese, and as Rector of this 
Ohurch, and his numerous other duties, which he undertook 
with cheerfulness, and which few other men could have borne. 

"3. Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with his afflicted 
family, who, by the dispensation of Divine Providence, have 
been deprived of a most loving father, husband, and brother. 



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"4. Resolved, That as an expression of our regard for his 
memory, the Church shall be draped in mourning. 

^' 5. Resolved, That we will attend the funeral (subject to the 
concurrence of the Diocesan Standing Committee,) in the badges 
of mourning. 

" 6. Resolved, That we recommend every member of the con- 
gregation of St. Mary^s Church to wear crape on the left arm, 
during the procession and ceremonies of the day of burial. 

" 7. Resolved, That this preamble and resolutions be signed 
by the Curate of the Parish, and Wardens, and Vestrymen, and 
published in ' The Churchman,' ^ Banner of the Cross,' ^Epis- 
copal Recorder,' ' Church Journal,' and ^ The New Jersey Dol- 
lar Newspaper ; ' and also, that a copy be made, and sent by the 
Clerk of the Yestry, to the afflicted family of our late beloved 
Bishop and Eector. 

'^Charles F. Hoffmax, 

" Curate. 

^' Thomas Milnor, Wm. A. Rogers, Wardens. 

"J. B. Jones, Franklin Gauntt, M. D., Charles S. Gauntt, 
Samuel Rogers, Elias Howell, J. Howard Pugh, M. D., 
Hamilton McDowell, Wm. J. Watson, Vestrymen.''^ 
April 28, 1859. 

FUNERAL OF THE LATE BLSHOP DOAXE. 

" The funeral of the lamented Bishop Doane, took place on 
Saturday, at half-past one o'clock, p. m., from his late residence. 
Riverside, Burlington, N. J., in the presence of some three 
thousand persons of all classes. 

The houses in Wood street, and other portions of the town, 
which were in the vicinity of St. Mary's Church, and the 
Bishop's residence, were all closed, the doors, window shutters, 
<&c., being hung with crape. 

The train from Jersey City bore a number of Clergymen 
and other distinguished gentlemen from New York, Troy, 
Brooklyn, Hoboken, Jersey City, &c., and arrived at Burling- 
ton at a quarter past twelve, when the clergy and others at once 
proceeded to Riverside. On arriving at St. Mary's Hall, a 
large crowd of persons appeared assembled on the steps and in 
the building. The present is vacation in this establishment; 
nevertheless, more than one hundred ladies, belonging to ^ the 



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family,' came from their homes — many of them several miles 
distant to attend the funeral. 

" The body of the deceased was laid out in the hall of his resi- 
dence, clothed in full Episcopal canonicals, with a black wooden 
cross, about a foot in length, on his breast. His countenance 
wore an expression of calm serenity, indicative of a happy de- 
parture. The coffin was of the kind denominated a * wedge' 
coffin, broad at the top, and gradually narrowing towards the 
foot. It was lined and covered with Episcopal mourning ; on 
the lid was a large raised cross, with three steps beneath, and on 
the end, (not on the lid,) was a silver plate, bearing the follow- 
ing inscription : 

The Eight Eeverend 
George Washington Doane, D, D., LL. D., 
Bishop of New Jersey. 
Born 27 May, 1799. 
Died 27 April, 1859. 

There was also an outer coffin, of cedar, which was placed 
in the grave to receive the other; on the lid of this, was a brass 
plate bearing a similar inscription. 

" There were present at the funeral more than one hundred 
clergy in surplices, of whom the following were among the 
principal : 

The Rt. Rev. the Provisional Bishop [Horatio Potterl of New York. 
The Rt. Rev. the Bishop [John Henry Hopkins], of Vermont. 
The Rt. Rev. Bishop Southgate. 

Rev. Dr. Berrian, N. Y. Rev. Dr. Mahan, N. Y. 

Rev. Dr. Ogilby, N. Y. Rev. Dr. Johnson, N. Y. 

Rev. Dr. Van Kleeck, N. Y. Rev. Dr. Morgan, N. Y. 

Rev. Dr. Tucker, Troy, N. Y. Rev. J. H. Hopkins, Jr., N. Y. 

Rev. John J. Elmendorf, N. Y. Rev. Isaac H. Tuttle, N. Y. 

Rev. W. G. Farrington, N. Y. Rev. V. Biuce, Hoboken, N. J. 

Rev. Chas. Arey, Jersey City. Rev. J. S. Saunders, Newark, N. J. 

Rev. C. F. Hoffman, N. J. Rev. E. A. Hoffman, N. J. 

Rev. Clarkson Dunn, N. J. Rev. J. N. Stansbury, Newark, N. J. 

Rev. Jas. A. Williams, Orange, N. J. Rev. Dr. C. Williams, Philadelphia. 

Rev. E. K. Smith, N. J. Rev. Dr. Odenheimer, Philadelphia. 

Rev. H. Finch, Shrewsbury, N. J. Rev. H. H. Reid, N. J. 

Rev. N. Pettit, N. J. Rev. Mr. Sterling, N. J. 

Rev. Dr. Ducachet, Philadelphia. Rev. S. M. Haskins, Williamsburgh, N. Y, 

Rev. E. W. Syle, China. Rev. J. F. Garrison, M. D., Camden, N. J, 

Rev. E. B. Chase, Belvidere, N. J. Rev. Robert G. Chase, N. J. 

Rev. William Rudder, Illinois. Rev. S. W. Hallowell, N. J. 

Rev. James Thompson, N. J. Rev. Dr. Rose, Newark, N. J. 

Rev. Dr. Clay, Philadelphia. Rev. J- W. Shackelford, N. J. 

Rev. F. D. Canfield, Boonton, N. J. Rev. Dr. Van Pelt, Philadelphia. 

Rev. Marcus F. Hyde, N. J, Rev. Edward M. Pecke, N. J. 



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" There were also present, the Governor of New Jersey, with 
several Judges, Senators, &c. ; also, President King, of Colum- 
bia College, N. Y. ; Cyrus Curtiss, Esq., and delegates from the 
vestry of Trinity Church, N. Y. ; delegates from St. Paul's 
Vestry, Hobokeu ; delegates from Troy, and various other cities 
and towns in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 

''At one o'clock, the Rev. Dr. Ogilby, entered the room 
where the clergy were robing, and announced that carriages 
were ready for those appointed to officiate. The three Bishops, 
with the Rev. Dr. Berrian, accordingly proceeded to the Church 
in advance. 

^' At half-past one o'clock, the procession left the house in the 
following order : 

Sexton, with mace draped in black crape. 
Undertaker and Assistants. 
Eev. C. F. Hoffman, Curate of St. Mary's Church. 

Clerical Deputies of General Con- Clerical Members of Standing Com- 

vention : mittee : 

Eev. Dr. Mahan, Eev. Mr. Finch, 

Eev. Mr. Dunn, Eev. Mr. Williams, 

Eev. Mr, Goodwin, w; Eev, Dr. Stubbs, 

Eev. David Brown. ^ Eev. E. A. Hoffman. 

Lay Members of Standing Com- q Lay Deputies of General Conven- 

mitlee : tion : 

Judge Carpenter, Hon. Mr. Miller, 

Judge Ogden, Dr. Thompson, 

J. C. Garthwaite, Mr. Milnor, 

Dr. Babbitt. Mr. W. A. Eogers. 

[The body was borne on the shoulders of six men.] 

Eev. George Hobart Doane with his aunt. 
Eev. William Croswell Doane, and wife. 
Other members of the family. 
Clergy of the Diocese, two and two. 
Clergy of other Dioceses, two and two. 

The Governor of New Jersey. 
The Trustees of Burlington College. 
Charles King, Esq., LL. D,, President of Co- 
lumbia College. 
Vestry of St. Mary's Church. 
Vestries of other churches. 
Acting Eector and Professors of Burlington 
College, in surplices and Oxford caps. 
Teachers. 
Theological Students. 

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Alumni. 
Students of Burlington College. 
Treasurer of the Diocese. 
Curator of the Institutions. 
Rev. Elvin K. Smith, Principal and Head of 
the Family of St. Mary's Hall, in surplice. 
Family of St. Mary's Hall, two and two, con- 
sisting of between eighty and one hun- 
dred young ladies, in deep mourning, 
many of whom were in tears. 
Parishioners. 
Other Friends. 
Citizens generally. 

"The coffin was covered with a purple pall, having a large 
white cross in the centre. On the top was laid the pastoral 
staif, covered with crape, and resting upon a garland of japonicas 
and violets. 

" The procession extended a mile or thereabouts, and crowds 
of people witnessed it. At the windows of the various houses 
by which the procession passed, ladies appeared with mourning 
badges, and it was observed that in almost every instance there 
was weeping. Indeed, the day appeared to be one of mourning, 
real and heartfelt, not the ^ solemn mockery of woe.' 

" When the procession arrived at the Church, the coffin was 
met at the door by Bishops Hopkins, Southgate, and Potter, and 
Rev. Dr. Berrian, and proceeded up the nave in the same order, 
the Rev. Dr. Berrian reading the sublime sentences in the Bur- 
ial Service, the organ playing a solemn dirge. 

a ^i-pived at the chancel, the coffin was placed with the 
feet next the Altar, wiiich was covered with purple, and over 
which was the following inscription in white letters on a purple 
ground : 

' Blessed are the dead who 
die in the Lord ; for 
they rest from 
their labors.' 

^^The Bishop's throne was entirely covered with purple and 
festooned with crape, as were also the pulpit, the organ, the 
gallery, the gas burners, and other portions of the Church. 



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''The Bishops stood at the head of the coffin, the clergy 
stationed themselves on either side, and they and the whole 
congregation knelt and continued for some moments in silent 
prayer, the organ still performing the dirge. The choir sang 
the anthems, after which the lesson was read by the Right Rev. 
Bishop Southgate. 

" The procession then moved to the grave, where the family 
were surrounded by the clergy. The Bishop of Vermont took 
his position on an elevation at the head of the grave, the Pro- 
visional Bishop of New York, Bishop Southgate, and Rev. Dr. 
Berrian standing below him. 

'"Man that is born of a woman,' and the Committal, were 
read by Bishop Hopkins, while the earth was thrown in by the 
Rev. C. F. Hoffman. 

" The choir then sung : 

" ' I heard a voice from Heaven,' &c. 

" The concluding prayers were said by Bishop Potter, after 
which the members of the family, the clergy, and other friends, 
passed, and took a last look at the coffin, and after all had 
departed, the workmen employed covered up the grave, and all 
that was mortal of the good Bishop of New Jersey, was hidden 
from view, there to remain until the last trump shall call all 
those who, like him, depart in the faith of Christ." — New Yorh 
Express, May 2d, 1859. 

MEETING OF THE CLERGY. 

" After the obsequies a meeting of the clergy was held in the 
old Church, when, on motion of the Rev. E. A. Hoffman, the 
Rev. Clarkson Dunn, of Elizabethtown^ senior presbyter of the 
diocese, was called to the chair, and the Rev. Wm. Herbert 
Norris, of AYoodbury, appointed Secretary. 

"The Rev. Alfred Stubbs, D. D., of New Brunswick, said 
they were called together for the purpose of drafting a series of 
resolutions, expressive of the esteem in which their beloved 
Bishop had been held, and of their love for his memory. It 
could not be necessary for him to say one word of the character 
of his venerable Father among those who had loved him so long 



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and so well. He had not the power to do so ; and if he hadj, 
he had not the heart. Bishop Doane had stamped his memory 
in the hearts of those amono^ whom and in the as^e in which he 
lived. ^His works do follow him.' He was gone to his incor- 
ruptible inheritance, to receive that crown of glory which fadeth 
not away, and never should his name cease to shine on the ram- 
parts of their Zion. He (the speaker) knew that they would all 
respond to the wish that, whatever the infirmities of his 
(deceased's) nature, when that great day of account should come, 
and a voice should be heard at the mercy-seat, saying, ^ Call the 
laborers and give them their hire,' they might have but a tithe 
of the offerings he gave, the sufferings he endured, and the 
labors he performed in the Church of God, to produce as their 
work. He would now move that a committee of five, viz. : 
Rev^ Dr. Mahan, David Brown, Dr. Garrison, Mr. Merritt, 
Mr. Pettit, be appointed to draft resolutions expressing the great 
love and esteem in which they held the memory of the late 
Bishop Doane. 

" The motion was carried unanimously, after which it was- 
resolved, on motion of Rev. E. A. Hoffman, that the clergy of 
the diocese wear black crape on the left arm, for thirty days, as 
a token of respect to the memory of the late Bishop." — Ihid. 

EESOLUTIOXS OF THE CLERGY IN ATTENDANCE. 

'^Whereas, It hath pleased Almighty God, our Heavenly 
Father, to take unto Himself, after an illness brief and painful, 
but full of spiritual comfort, our beloved and honored Bishop, 
in the ripeness of his strength, and in the midst of his noble^. 
wise, and self-sacrificing labors : 

'^Resolvedy That deeply sensible of the loss sustained by our^ 
selves, by the Diocese of New Jersey, and by the Church at 
large, we bow submissively to the Wisdom that has directed, and. 
the Goodness that has tempered this chastening stroke: 

"That we heartily thank God, the Giver of all good, for the 
distinguished virtues and rare graces, manifested in the long,, 
laborious, and divinely prospered Ministry of His servant; for 
his singular magnanimity, charity, faith, "patience, hope; for 
his unwearied tenderness as a Pastor, deeply sympathizing with 
all classes, ages, and conditions of the Flock, his extraordinary 
power as a Preacher of Christ Crucified, his varied skill as a- 



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'Church Teacher, rightly dividing the Word of Truth, his 
soundness, judgment, and ripe learning as a Scholar and Theo- 
logian, his diligence and commanding ability as a Counsellor 
and Ruler, his loving and punctilious fidelity as a Priest in the 
services of the Sanctuary, his wise and able advocacy of the 
oause of Christian Education, his high character and wide influ- 
ence in all the relations of domestic, civil, and social, as well as 
ecclesiastical life ; 

" That we adore God's goodness for all the blessed circum- 
stances of peace, joy, serenity, and of reasonable, religious, and 
holy hope, and for all the gracious influences of the Holy Spirit, 
that brightened the last moments, and cheered the departure of 
our beloved deceased Bishop ; 

"That we tender our heartfelt sympathy to the family of the 
deceased, in this, their sore affliction and bereavement ; 

''That we implore, the Divine Grace, that this visitation may 
be sanctified to the chastening of all hearts, to the promotion 
of peace, charity, and good will among us, to the increase of 
faith, to renewed diligence, humility, steadfiistness, and devo- 
tion, in the service of our sole, supreme, living, and ever-present 
Head, Jesus Christ, our Lord." 

PvESOLUTIOXS OF THE ALOIXI OF BUELIXGTOX COLLEGE. 

A meeting of the Alumni of Burlington College was' held in 
the College Library, on Saturday, the 30th ult., immediately 
after the funeral of the Bishop of New Jersey. 

George M. Miller, Esq., was called to the chair, and Rev. 
Hobart Chetwood was chosen Secretary. 

On motion of C. Willino^ Littell, the followins; resolutions 
were unanimously adopted : 

Hesohed, That as no words of ours can express the emotion 
occasioned by this visitation of our Heavenly Father, who, in 
His wisdom, has seen fit to visit us with trouble, and to bring 
distress upon us, we, the Alumni of Burlington College, endea- 
vor by our action to give expression to our grief, for the loss of 
him, who, by the brilliancy and cultivation of his intellect, the 
extent of his learning, the refinement of his taste, the variety of 
his accomplishments, the purity, strength, and dignity of his 
character, and the warmth and geniality of his heart, beautifully 
adorned every relation of life, and united in himself those ties 
which bound us so strongly to him, as founder of our College, 
our honored President, our revered Bishop, and our long and 
.much loved friend. 



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Resolvedy That a Committee, consisting of the Chairman and 
Secretary of this meeting, with one member of each class, be 
constituted, with authority, to receive contributions, and to adopt 
measures necessary to the erection of a monument appropriate 
to the memory of Bishop Doane. 

Resolved, That the present and former students of the College, 
the graduates, with the present and former pupils of St. Mary's 
Hall, are hereby invited to unite with us in the erection of this 
memorial. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted by 
the Secretary to the family of the Bishop, and to the Board of 
Trustees, with the request that they be entered upon the records 
of the College; and that the proceedings of this meeting be pub- 
lished in the principal ecclesiastical and secular newspapers of 
New York, Newark, and Philadelphia. 

In accordance with the second resolution, the following 
gentlemen were appointed members of the committee, and 
empowered to receive contributions for the erection of the 
monument: George M. Miller, New York; Rev. Hobart 
Chetwood, Elizabeth, N. J. ; Rev. William T. Johnston, Balti- 
more ; C. Willing Littell, Philadelphia; Henry O. Claggett,, 
Leesburg, Ya. ; George S. Lewis, Burlington, N. J. ; James O. 
Watson, Portsmouth, N. H. ; Henry W. Nelson, Boston ; Jere- 
miah C. Garthwaite, Jr., Newark, N. J. ; William B. Griffin,. 
New Orleans. 

THE DAY AFTER THE BURIAL. 

^'The day following the funeral,'^ says the Rev. Dr. Mahan, 
" being the first of May, and the octave of the Easter-Feast — ■ 
was a beautiful and fit sequel to so solemn an occasion. There 
was the same glorious sunshine, the same fragrance and bloom 
pervading the leafy atmosphere of the good old city of Burling- 
ton, the same ringing song of birds, the same sparkling of the 
crisp weaves of the Delaware, the same vernal jubilee, in short,, 
which had thrown such a halo of gladness round the otherwise 
sad proceedings of the day before. 

''All day long the Bishop's grave was visited by a succession 
of silent and tearful groups. All that glorious May-day it lay 
under the soft sunshine, a mound of fresh and fragrant flowers,, 
which loving hands continued to heap upon it from morning tO' 
night. In St. Mary's and St. Barnabas', the sermons of course- 



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breathed of the occasion, and the Holy Communion shed its 
healing unction upon the grief of the great family of mourners. 
He who has ever participated in this most comfortable sacra- 
ment by the death bed of some dear friend, the idol of a stricken 
family, has witnessed on a small scale, what was on this mem- 
orable Lord's day, exhibited at large among the Church people 
of Burlington.'^ 

THE FIEST SEE3I0X IX ST. MARY's AFTER THE EUXERAL. 

The selection of" the Rev. Frederick Ogilby, D. D., Assis- 
tant Minister of Trinity Church, X. Y., as ^^the Preacher at 
the service which first followed Bishop Doaxe's funeral, in St. 
Mary's Church, was a loving recognition of his previous rela- 
tions to the departed Bishop, and this sorrowing Parish. This 
sermon was wholly prepared after the trying scenes of Saturdav. 

" The author would never have attempted such a hurried 
preparation, had it been designed at this time to offer a proper 
tribute to the Bishop's memory. The Preacher only attempted, 
as a former minister in St. Mary's Church, to speak words of 
comfort to an afflicted people. This discourse was, therefore, a 
simple outpouring of the heart's true feeling, from one who well 
might weep with them that wept. 

''It was published in compliance with the request of the 
Vestry." 

The text was from the First Lesson : " When thou passest 
through the icaters, I v: ill he icith thee; and through the rivers, 
they shall not overflow thee: ivhen thou icalhest through the nre 
thou shall not he hurned ; neither shall the flame kindle upon 
theeJ^ — Isaiah, xliii : 2. 

After a solemn introduction the preacher said : "My brethren 
and dear friends, it is hardly needful for me, impressed with the 
solemnities of that recent death scene, to assure you there is no 
affectation of unfelt humilitv in the declaration, that nothing 
but a trust in Him whose strength is made perfect in weakness, 
could nerve my soul to venture upon the office I attempt this 
day. My sorrow is not less than yours, my grief not less heavy 
to bear; we all have but one Comforter. My heart at once re- 



536 HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



spouded to the suggestion of the kind and loving friends, who 
thought that this place had peculiar claims upon my presence 
this day. I refer not merely to years of dear and holy love, 
such as binds together the hearts of father and of son ; a love 
which only grew with passing years, and whose intensity beamed 
upon me with eternal light from dying eyes, on Wednesday last. 
Beside all this, it was my privilege once to share with your 
shepherd, now in the eternal fold of Christ, the pastoral care of 
this flock. Life, with all its sad experience; death, with its 
blight and its ruin, have not effaced the memory of that associa- 
tion. How mysterious are the orderings of Providence ! I 
come this day to take my old place among you, while he, who 
seemed as the giant of the forest, illustrates the sad truth, ^as 
for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he 
flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the 
place thereof shall know it no more ! ' But my office of com- 
forter permits me not to dwell upon thoughts of death. Last 
Sunday the light of Easter beamed brightly upon all the graves 
of earth. To-day that Easter light is falling cheerily upon a 
new made grave. And though in that sepulchre are entombed 
the remains of one, who filled so large a place in all our hearts, 
yet even with death so present, with its awful shadow so dark 
around us, Easter light breaks through the gloom and speaks to 
us of life and immortality. My office, then, is to speak to you, 
from whose eyes death has just wrung such bitter tears of dis- 
tress, of life — of a life not ended, but continued — of a life which 
God gave for your blessing, and which still endures upon earth 
in its results and in its effect, though the soul hath passed from 
the sorrows of this world to the joys of Paradise. 

;K ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 

" With the most earnest desire, in this temple of truth, to give 
expression to no thought in which there shall be the slightest 
approach to exaggeration, and with the calmest and most care- 
ful consideration, I say deliberately, that no single human life, 
of the present day, within my knowledge or observation, has 
had in it more, both of action and of suffering, compressed iu 
the narrow compass of three score years, than the life of the 
noble Bishop and Pastor who has now rested from his labors. 



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537 



He lived among you, under your close and continual observa- 
tion ; you have seen, you liave known, ^Yhat his life has been. 

" My own personal knowledge of him reaches beyond a quar- 
ter of a century ; nearly half of his mortal life. Then a youth 
in college at Xew Brunswick, I saw him on his first visitation 
of his Diocese. I saw him, in the freshness of his manly beauty, 
* ruddy, and of a fair countenance,' as David when he first went 
forth the champion of Israel. You saw him yesterday, as he 
was laid in the calm repose of a holy death, with the frosts and 
furrows of premature age upon him. Could six and twenty 
vears of life have wrought all that change, if in those years was 
not compressed a whole life of action and of suffering ? 

" Consider first the action of his life — which was literally, 
^ always abounding in the work of the Lord.' You cannot fol- 
low the course of that action. Few mortal steps could keep 
pace with it. You may look at it, in its results. In this too 
hasty discourse, prepared after all the excitement of yesterday, 
one of the most trying days of my life, I will not attempt to 
trace even the results of this unwearied activity, as they are im- 
pressed upon the general interests of the Church in this land. 
How large a space would be occupied in setting forth the effect 
of this untiring energy, as witnessed in the House of Bishops, 
the Board of Missions, the Trustees of the General Theological 
Seminary, and the S. S. Union and Church Book Society — in- 
deed, in all the general Institutions of the Church. Bishop 
Doane had a truly Catholic heart, and while he never forgot 
his own Diocese, he remembered that he was not only Bishop of 
Xew Jersey, but also of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic 
Church. For years there was hardly one important committee, 
in any general Institution of the Church, of wliich he was not 
a leading member. In the Missionary operations of the Church 
beyond his own Diocese, he always evinced the most lively 
interest, and his large heart embraced with an active sympathy 
the Foreign as well as the Domestic field. ^S'otwithstanding all 
this, his most active and untiring energy expended itself upon 
his own Diocese. Every parish, from the smallest to the great- 
est, had his sleepless vigilance ; and the least sign of trouble or 



538 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



of difficulty attracted his notice and his presence. His duties 
in his parish and the two institutions here, made his visitations 
hurried, but what life and effect he gave them, and how his 
presence stirred up the life of others ! The results of his Dio- 
cesan labors are witnessed in the great increase of parishes in 
strength and numbers, in the lists of clergy, communicants, and 
candidates for Holy Orders and for confirmation, since his Epis- 
copate. I well remember what this Diocese, and not a few of 
its Parishes, were in the year 1832. The memories of those 
before me, which reach back as far as that time, can estimate^, 
Avith arithmetical precision, the results of Bishop Doane's ener- 
getic action. ' 

But in speaking to you, my old and dear friends of St. 
Mary's Church, I would rather dwell upon the results which 
your own eyes have w^itnessed, within the immediate circle of 
your own observation. The memorial tablet, in St. Paul's 
Cathedral, to commemorate its great Architect, bears the appro- 
priate inscription — ^ Si monumentum quceris, cirmmspice' — if 
you seek a monument, look around ! How many things in 
Burlington might bear this inscription to the memory of Bishop 
Doane ! How truly might it here be said of his life of action 
in this place — Si monumentum qimris, circumspice. It needs no 
monumental marble to tell you. Parishioners of St. Mary's and 
citizens of Burlington, what he has done. Some of you, as well 
as I, remember the Church, in this place, to which he was 
called as Rector. Look around upon this noble edifice, and its 
offspring, St. Barnabas — the monuments of Pastoral energy I 
If these are not enough, look at St. Mary's Hall and Burling- 
ton College, the monuments at once of his action and his suffer- 
ing. His own hands, almost unaided, reared these noble monu- 
ments, and their very stones were wet and stained with his sweat 
and his life blood. That these might prove a blessing to the 
Church, he ventured all that life holds dear ; and, but for the 
brave heart, strong in its consciousness of right, with which he 
battled in a just cause, he and they would have fallen before 
misguided foes. But, blessed be God, his life was spared to 
place these monuments of his action and his suffering upon an 



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enduriDg "basis, and to leave them to perpetuate bis life in tbeirs» 
Though in him they have lost their best friend, his death can- 
not destroy the work of his life. What comfort do we find in 
those exulting words, with which he began his last published 
address to the Graduating Class at St. Mary's Hall. 

" ' This is the one and twentieth birthday of St. Mary's HalL 
It seems to me, impossible. But the other day, as I sat, at 
work, in my study, in that old Academy, which stood, where St. 
Mary's Church, now stands, it was proposed to me, to buy the 
property built, as a school, for Friends, to be a girls' school of 
the Church. But the other day, I set my hand to a pamphlet, 
entitled ^Female Education, on Christian Principles ; ' the first 
announcement of my plan. But the other day, on a beautiful 
May morning, these doors were opened, to a little band of timid 
girls, who are now abroad upon the land : its mothers, and its 
grandmothers ; God bless them ! And, now, scarce a city, or a 
town, or a village, or a hamlet, in which St. Mary's Hall is not 
' a household word.' AVhile, each successive year, the living 
stream of women has flowed out ; to beautify, and fertilize, the 
land. For these exceeding blessings of His Providence and 
Grace, God's holy name be praised ! That He may still continue 
them ; and, that St. Mary's Hall, through generation after gen- 
eration, while the world shall stand, may be a name, still, and 
a praise, let us devoutly ask Him, through the merits of His 
Son, our only Saviour Jesus Christ.' 

^' To that prayer whose heart will not respond, Allien f 
" We ask no prouder monument of thy life of action and 
suffering, beloved Bishop and friend ! In this alone, thy life 
endures. Esto perpetua ! 

ij; ■^f. if. i;:. >iC 

" I have not spoken to you of your Bishop and Rector, as a 
Preacher. It were needless. The very stones of this Temple 
are steeped in his eloquence. Its echoes will linger forever in 
these hallowed courts, and will, I trust, never pass from your 
hearts. 

Nor need I speak to you of him as a Pastor. The footprints 
of his merciful offices are worn too deep, in all the paths of human 
sorrow and suffering among you, to be ever effaced. 



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" I have not attempted to set before you his full leugth por- 
trait, as a Bishop or as a man. AYhat he was, in his high office 
and in his noble manhood, you know full well. Mighty, as a 
Bishop, through God's eternal power, to strengthen what was 
weak, to awaken what was asleep, to quicken what was dead ! 
Great as a man — great in mind and intellect, but greater far in 
heart and soul, conquering not merely by the might of reason, 
but winning souls by the mightier influence of loye * 

THE DAY AFTER THE BURIAL. 

^' The Service at St. Mary's Church, where the Rev. Dr. Ogilby, 
a former assistant in the Parish, preached a special sermon, was 
in keeping with that of Saturday. This noble Church, a fitting 
monument of the departed Bishop's life-work, seemed filled with 
-a mourning congregation. This was especially noticed at the 
-administration of the Holy Communion, to which nearly all the 
Communicants came robed in black, and some of them unable 
to restrain the outburst of their overwhelming grief. The same 
deep feeling was manifest at the Church of St. Barnabas, where 
the Rev. Dr. Mahan preached a sermon commemorative of the 
Bishop's life and labors. >;< >;< » 

'^The unanimity of feeling, and the intensity of sorrow mani- 
fested, not only by his own Diocese and Parishioners, but by 
the citizens of Burlington generally, afforded the most satisfac- 
tory testimony of his life and character. Those among whom 
the most trying part of his life was passed, who had seen his 
daily walk and conversation, were surely the ones to estimate 
aright his true worth. A man's nearest neighbors are generally 
his severest judges. And with the verdict rendered by Bur- 
lington on Saturday last, before us, we would be little affected by 
any opposing judgment. We admire manliness and truth. And 
we were especially pleased to hear of the noble part taken by 
the Rev. Dr. Van Rensselaer, a distinguished Presbyterian 
minister. At one time he and Bishop Doane were engaged in 
controversy, but the instincts of the real Christian gentleman 
■prevailed over all less worthy considerations. Lately, we have 
understood, these two former opponents were more drawn to- 



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gether, and we learn that Dr. Van Rensselaer has declared that 
his esteem grew upon his nearer intimacy. He showed the 
most delicate and tender attentions to Bishop Doaue during his 
illness, and, on his death, addressed one of the most comforting 
letters to the afflicted family, and on Sunday afternoon preached 
a most impressive and touching sermon on the Bishop's death, 
bearing the strongest testimony to his worth and character, to 
the Presbyterian congregation at Burlington/^ — The Churchman. 

DR. VAN REKSSELAER's DISCOURSE. 

The title of this discourse, which w^as subsequently printed, 
is, " A funeral sermon on the occasion of the death of Bishop 
Doane, preached in the Presbyterian Church, Burlington, N. J.,, 
on May 1st, 1859, by Cortlandt Tan Rensselaer, D. D., a min- 
ister of the Presbyterian Church. It is prefaced with the fol- 
lowing note : 

Providence often summons a person to the performance of 
duties, which would otherwise more naturally have devolved 
upon others. Living in Burlington by the side of Bishop 
Doane, I felt called upon to notice his death. My own stand- 
point varies from that of some others. I shall have no personal 
controversy with any who differ from me. God is the Judge 
of all. c. Y. R.'' 

The text is, Let us Jail now into the hand of the Lord ; for 
his mercies are great ; hut let me not fall into the hand, of manJ^' 
—2 Sam. xxiv : 14. 

Having noticed some of the things suggested by the spirit of 
the text, it proceeds thus : 

" The qualities that gave to Bishop Doane his great influence, 
and enabled him to accomplish so much service, seem to me to 
be summed up under three classes : intellectual vigour, an in- 
domitable will, and strong personal attractions. 

"1. God gave the Bishop a fine mind. He was a man of 
mark in intellectual operations. His mind was clear and vivid, 
of varied resources, and highly cultivated. His perceptions 
w^ere quick. He possessed the vis fervid a ingeyiii. Not so much 
the logician as the rhetorician, he yet never lacked argument to- 



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attain his ends. His rich talents were moulded by common 
sense, and by an enlarged knowledge of human nature. In an 
emergency, his intellect soared highest. In fact, one of Bishop 
Doane's peculiarities of greatness consisted in always equalling 
the occasion. He saw what was to be done, and could do it, 
and did it. He was adroit, when it was necessary to be adroit. 
The lawyers said that he could have beaten them all, if educated 
a lawyer ; and military officers affirmed that he would have 
made a grand general in war. Far-seeing, clear, quick, bold, 
always the centre of the campaign, his mind, especially in emer- 
gencies, moved in flashes whilst his right arm thundered in 
action. The fertility of his resources testified to superior endow- 
ments. His was the activity of spirit. His restless mind found 
no time for repose ; and he was ready for every kind of service 
proper for him to perform. His mind was highly cultivated. 
He was at home in English literature. The adornments of the 
scholar graced his learning, and varied knowledge mingled with 
his theological attainments. All wdio came in contact with 
Bishop Doane, felt the power of his intellect. Nor were his 
opponents unw^illing to acknowledge his commanding mental 
gifts. 

^' 2. Bishop Doane had a iconderful strength of will. He was 
a man of firm purpose ; resolute to be, to do, and to suffer. He 
could not be second where he had a right to be at all, nor sub- 
ordinate in anything where a share of work fell to his hands. 
It was a privilege for him to be beforehand. His will was in- 
domitable. The Church, as the State, needs these men of strong 
will. Every community needs them. Men of weak will have 
their place ; and generally they go through life with fewer ene- 
mies, and are blessed with the gentler virtues. But men of 
will are the men of mark, the men of deeds. 

''It was this will-power that gave to Bishop Doane his energy. 
Energy does not necessarily belong to high intellect. It is not 
a mental gift or operation. It belongs to the heart. Its spring 
is in the affections, or ' active powers,^ according to the philoso- 
phers. Bishop Doane's energy was a fire never out. It is said 
that, at the central depot at Bordentown, a reserve engine is 



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always kept with fuel ignited, ready for the emergencies of the 
road. An ever-ready locomotive in energetic activity was this 
Bishop ; with large driving wheels, and to each wheel a panting 
cylinder. His will was of a higher power than steam ; it gene- 
rated energy in the soul. 

" His self-denial was associated with his will. What he de- 
termined to do, he omitted no means to bring to pass. The 
end must meet the beginning ; and by God's grace success must 
•crown the plan. In labours he was abundant. No wind, no 
rain, no cold, could keep him from his appointments. He has 
been known to cross the Delaware when the brave heart of the 
ferryman dissuaded from the peril. He could submit to all 
privations in the discharge of duty. He could sleep anywhere ; 
in his chair, at his writing-table, in the car, or steamboat, or 
wagon. And after working for twenty hours, the sleep of the 
•other four could well be taken without choice of place. His 
will outworked his frame, in urging to laborious self-denial of 
every kind for the Church's sake. 

" It was strength of will that gave the Bishop his perse- 
verance. Many a man would have quailed where he was fresh 
to go forward. Like the workman at the anvil, he would wield 
the hammer all day, could the last stroke but perfect the work. 
He withstood with persevering defiance an opposition which 
would have overborne almost any other man. He clung fast to 
Burlington College, when many advised him to surrender it ; 
and whatever may be the ultimate fate of that institution, it 
could not die whilst the Bishop lived. His perseverance had 
its ramifications of care and of industry in every part of the 
•diocese. 

"His will was a strong element in the Bishop's success as a 
disciplinarian. Burlington College and St. Mary's Hall were 
under the most rigid government. The two institutions, so 
near each other, required watchful supervision, and all the appli- 
ances of the wisest discipline. Bishop Doane was unremitting 
in the fidelity of his oversight. His rules were rigid, minute, 
and wise ; and they were efficiently administered. The peremp- 
toriness of authority w^as blended with parental affection ; and 



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ill all the outgoings of bis love^ the young men and maidens 
knew that a large will encircled a large heart. 

" 3. Bemarkahle social traits contributed to Bishop Doane's 
extensive influence. He was a man of amiable disposition and 
of warm feelings. His courtesy gained him friends everywhere. 
Generous to the poor ; kind to all ; abounding with pleasant 
conversation ; genial and free ; accessible at all times ; he was 
the life of the social circle ; and it is no wonder that his personal 
endearments won hosts of attachments. At the same time, it 
must be admitted that many people did not like him, partly 
from prejudices, partly from his personal complacency, and 
partly from causes already alluded to. | But it cannot be denied 
that Bishop Doane was eminently blessed with faithful and de- 
voted friends, in his congregation, in hisMiocese, and throughout 
his whole church. 

Let it be noticed, to his honor, that vindidiveness was not a 
part of his social character. He keenly felt the disparaging esti- 
mate of others, but rarely did others detect any resentment. Ue 
would meet his adversaries with the usual courtesies of life, at 
home or abroad ; and many have been ^ the coals of fire' which 
his condescension has placed upon their heads. 

" One of the most winning traits of Bishop Doane's character 
was his love of children. He gained their hearts. He was the 
the little ones' friend. What prettier sight than to see the 
grandfather, hand in hand with his fair, curly grandchild, prat- 
tling together through the streets? The Bishop loved little 
children, and all the little children loved the Bishop. 

Bishop Doane was happily outliving ihe opposition that 
had formerly existed against him. One of his greatest misfor- 
tunes was in the number of flatterers that surrounded him — not 
flatterers always by intention, but rendering their homage in too 
open and dangerous a form. His susceptible social nature was 
under the constant temptation to ' think more highly of himself 
than he ought to think.' Others may paint, if they choose, the 
infirmities of his social character in darker colours. I have 
given the outline as I have seen it. Never intimate with the- 
Bishop, I have nevertheless known him and studied him for 



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twenty-three years ; and although his nature had its faults, it 
was a noble one. The secret of his influence and success in life 
is to be found in the three classes of endowments I have men- 
tioned, — a vivid intellect, a strong will, and the social charms 
of his personal presence. * * 

As a Bishop, the departed prelate will undoubtedly be 
acknowledged by his Church to be one of her greatest sons. So 
he was. He magnified his office. His work was done on a 
great scale. He was personally, everywhere, in his own diocese ; 
and his writings were circulated widely in every other diocese. 
He was the prominent man in the House of Bishops. He could 
out-preach, out-vote, and out- work the whole of his brethren in 
the Episcopate. He was a sort of Napoleon among Bishops. 
It was after he crossed Alps of difficulties, that he entered upon 
the campaigns of his highest renown. The bridge of Lodi and 
the field of Marengo were to him the inspirations of heroism 
and the rallying time of mightiest strategy. Bishop Doane was, 
perhaps, better adapted to the English Church than to the 
American. His prelatical notions suited a monarchy more than 
a republic. In the House of Lords, he would have stood among 
the foremost of Lord Bishops. He of Oxford, would not have 
ranked before him of New Jersey. Bishop Doane was a good 
deal of an Anglican in his modes of thought and his views of 
ecclesiastical authority. Had he lived in the days of Charles, 
he would have been a Laudcan in prelatical and political con- 
victions — super-Laudean in intellect, and sub-Laudean in gen- 
eral ecclesiastical temper. My own sympathies are altogether 
with the evangelical, or Low Church Bishops, as are those of 
the vast majority of this audience. I do not believe in the 
doctrines of lofty Church order and transmitted grace, so favour- 
ably received in some quarters. But this is a free country ; and 
the soul by nature is free, and has a right to its opinions, subject 
to the authority of the great Head of the Church. Bishop 
Doane had a right to his ; and he believed himself to be, in a 
peculiar sense, a successor of the Apostles. He is one of the 
few American Bishops who has had the boldness to carry out 
his theory, and to call himself an Apostle. He delighted in his 

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office. Peter was to him the example of rigid adherence to the 
forms of the concision, whilst Paul was his example in enduring 
suffering for the extension of the Church. With an exalted 
view of his office, he lived, and laboured, and died. In this 
spirit, he encountered all his hardships and perils ; and when, 
as in the case of danger in crossing the Delaware, he jumped 
into the frail skiff, inviting the ferryman to follow, it was the 
same spirit of ' Apostolum yehis.' Bishop Doane was, in 
short, as complete a specimen of a High Church Bishop as the 
world has seen, and, in some respects, he was a model for any 
class of Bishops at home or in mother England. 

" As a Rector, Bishop Doane was precisely what might be 
expected of a man of his character. He was earnest, active, 
fertile in expedients, a faithful visitor of his people, and a friend 
of the poor. He seemed to be always in the right place at the 
right time. He went about doing good, and was known in 
Burlington as Rector more than Bishop. 

As a Peeacher, no Bishop surpassed Bishop Doane. He 
has published more sermons than the whole House of Bishops — 
able sermons, which will be perpetual memorials of his intel- 
lectual powers, and of his zeal for the Church. These discourses 
are on a great variety of topics, but they contain much scriptural 
truth, mingled with his own peculiar views of apostolic order, 
sacramental grace, and ecclesiastical unity. His sermon before 
the last General Convention of the Episcopal Church in Phila- 
delphia, was the occasion of one of the greatest triumphs he was 
ever permitted to enjoy. AYhen his discourses and diocesan 
addresses are collected into a series of volumes, they will be 
found to be a treasury of High Church doctrine and order, 
which no Bishop, nor all the Bishops of his way of thinking, 
could equal. I have read most of his productions, and, although 
often disagreeing with him in sentiment, I have never failed to 
notice his intellectual vigour, his zeal for his Church, and his 
unction for the episcopate. 

"As an Orator, Bishop Doane surpassed most of his 
brethren. His best efforts were fine and impressive. His 
voice was loud, and when he chose, well modulated. His ges- 



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ticulation was animated and strong. His clear blue eye glowed 
with vivacity ; and his words worked their way into the minds 
and hearts of his audience. Bishop Doane showed an adapta- 
tion to the masses, which many speakers in the sacred desk so 
niuch lack. He was a whole-souled, commanding orator, when 
great occasions summoned forth his powers. The two best spec- 
imens of his delivery, within my own observation, were at Mrs. 
Bradford's funeral, and at the celebration of the last birthday 
of Washington. Nothing could be more appropriate and more 
effective, for the ends of oratory, than was his manner on those 
occasions. At times, I am told, that he did not do himself 
justice ; but he had it in him, and it generally came out. Who 
of the citizens of Burlington, that heard him on the 22d of last 
February, did not recognize the voice, the manner, and the 
presence, of a great popular orator ? 

As a Writer, Bishop Doane's style was peculiar. It was 
ornate, pithy, Saxon. It was a style of his own. It would not 
suit most men. Few ought to presume to imitate it. But it 
suited himself. Many admire it. It had the great merit of 
clearness. No one ever misunderstood him, although his punc- 
tuation was as remarkable as his style. He was a ready writer ; 
accomplishing with ease all that he undertook, and commonly 
justifying, in the productions of his pen, the highest expecta- 
tions. If his higher occupations had not called him away from 
the pursuits of literature, he would have ranked among the 
finest poets of the age. * 

" In the various points of view in which his characteristics 
have been now considered. Bishop Doane was a remarkable man. 
And his death was an harmonious termination of a lono; and 
useful life. Let us meditate, now, upon some of the circum- 
stances of his departure. 

He died in the midst of his work. His preaching, during 
his last semi-annual Visitation, was unusually acceptable. Sev- 
eral of my own brethren in the Presbyterian ministry have 
spoken, in glowing terms, of one of his sermons in W est Jersey. 
His Episcopal appointments in Monmouth county, (the last 
one at Freehold,) were fulfilled in the midst of rain and high 



548 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



winds, and sometimes in an open wagon. His services, as was 
his custom, were arranged two or three for each day. Work 
was his delight ; and at his work he met the premonitions of 
death, ^yith his Episcopal staff in his hand, he received the 
w^ound of the last enemy, — not from behind, but face to face. 

" Another kind token of Providence towards the Bishop was, 
that he died at home. Riverside opened its massive doors to 
him for the last time ; and entering its hall, he found a resting- 
place in its genial study. After partaking of a slight repast, he 
retired to bed, never to rise from it. The magnificent mansion, 
where he had projected his enlarged schemes, written his nu- 
merous sermons, and entertained with his profuse hospitality his 
hosts of friends, was the fit place for Bishop Doane to die. And 
Riverside had the privilege of his death and funeral. 

" God also permitted the Bishop to arrange what was wanting 
to the completion of his Episcopal tuorh. During his sickness he 
conversed, for some hours, about the affairs of his Diocese ; and 
gave directions, and left memoranda, respecting its approaching 
exigency. On one of these occasions, he had a long interview 
with the Hon. Abraham Broioning, of Camden ; shortly after 
which, a paroxysm of delirjum occurred. God spared him, 
however, to complete all the necessary arrangements in the 
affairs of his church. 

"T/ie time of Bishop Doane's death was well ordered in Prov- 
idence. Had it occurred a few years before, a cloud of gloom 
would have rested over his grave ; and the inheritance of his 
good name might have been unredeemed from the tax-list of 
evil report. But the aspect had been changed. His honours 
had returned to him ; and, as if in anticipation of his last end, his 
fellow-citizens had invited him to appear before them once more 
in an address. On the birthday of Washington, old memories 
were revived ; and he, who had so often, in former years, ad- 
dressed the people of Burlington, in its Lyceum, again made it& 
Hall vocal with his eloquence, and again received the applause 
of his friends and neighbours. His diocese, also, was in a pros- 
perous condition, and he was taken away from evil to come. In 



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the judgment of his best friends, it was a good time for him to 
die. And God knew it, above men. 

'^God was good to the Bishop in surrounding him, during 
sickness, with the kindest comforts and care. His sons were 
present with all the activities of filial devotion ; one of them 
from the beginning to the end, by day and by night. The 
other, who had become a Romanist, received forgiveness for all 
the personal pain the father and the Bishop had received. This 
was one of the incidents that must have given to the death- 
chamber a sublimity. His faithful physician did all that skill 
could do ; and the noble and venerable physician of Bristol, and 
the most distinguished from Philadelphia, freely gave the con- 
tributions of the medical profession. The tenderest female 
hearts w^ere around about the sufferer, — without which, indeed, 
no death-bed can be what man expects and wants. It was well 
ordered that she, who had the first claims to be present, was 
absent; for could feeble health w^ell boar those scenes of sorrow?! 
God was merciful in all these incidents. 

" The Bishop, too, had his reason at the last. It is sad to die 
with a beclouded mind. Various intervals of delirium had 
occurred, especially about the middle of the attack. In these, 
the Bishop's mind was on the affairs of his diocese, or his class- 
room, or personal concerns. Disease struck its pains in every 
nerve, and bloodvessel, and muscle of the body, dethroning the 
intellect, for a time, from its high dominion. But it recovered 
its place before death, and he conversed with relatives and 
friends, took a last loving farewell of all, and prepared for the 
conflict, ' faint though pursuing.' 

" The Bishop was strengthened to die in peace. Partaking of 
the communion, early in the morning of his last day on earth, 
he was refreshed by the service, and at its close, pronounced 
with a clear voice the blessing. He then composed himself for 
the final struggle. The last words, as taken down by the family 
physician, were, ' I die in the faith of the Son of God, and the 

t "Since the delivery of this discourse, I have received a letter froni a rela- 
tive in Konie, from which the following is an extract: 'In coming out of 
church to day, we met Mrs. Doane, who, I thought, looked remarkably well. 
She almost immediately began to speak of the Bishop, and expressed her 
intention to return home.' " c. Y. r. 



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confidence of His One Catholic Church. I have no merits — no 
man has, but my trust is in the mercy of Jesus/ 

Thus departed, at noonday, April 27th, this distinguished 
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States 
of America. ' Let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for his 
mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.' 
Bishop Doane has passed away from human judgments, to the 
j udgment-seat of God ! * * 

" May all allusion be omitted of that remarkable funeral ? 

" The burial of Bishop Doane was one befitting his position. 
A Bishop must be buried as becometh a Bishop. The funeral 
procession was one of sublime solemnity, No one, who saw it, 
can ever forget it. The day and the season were opportune with 
the brightness and sadness of the last of April. The coffin borne 
aloft on the shoulders of fellow-mortals ; the royal purple of the 
pall, fringed with white, and fluttering out to the wind like the 
motions of a stricken eagle ; the crosier overlaying the body with 
the emblem of Episcopal authority; the bereaved family lament- 
ing with Christian lamentation the father of the household ; the 
three-score of surpliced clergy following their silent Chief with 
uncovered heads; the Governor, Chief Justice, and other digni- 
taries of the State ; the students of the College with badges of 
grief, and the weeping young ladies of the Hall arrayed in full 
mourning, true-hearted representatives of their sister-graduates 
all over the land ; the long line of distinguished strangers and 
of sympathizing fellow-citizens; the tolling of all the church 
bells, and of the city bell ; the immense gathering of spectators 
around St. Mary's Church and the grave ; — everything was as 
impressive as life and death could make it. 

" The high task I have attempted, has been imperfectly per- 
formed. I am ready to meet its responsibilities before God and 
man. My offering of May-flowers, fragrant with the freshness 
of their gathering, has been laid upon the new-made grave ; — 
flowers plucked by a Puritan's hand, and placed in memoriam. 
over the dust of a great Episcopal Bishop." 



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THE PEOGEESS OF ST. BAENABAS' FEEE MISSION. 

"On the Feast of St. Barnabas, A. D. 1858, the Bishop laid 
the corner stone of the new School Chapel of St. Barnabas' Free 
Mission. It was an act of faith and hope, and God has realized 
it to us. The building was dedicated to the worship of Almighty 
God by the Bishop, on Saturday, November 27, the last day of 
Church's year. It is not fully paid for yet, but we trust, in all 
this year, to clear it of the debt. The east and west windows 
are gifts ; the pelican window, the gift of the Bishop himself. 
The altar furniture was also given, and the font is the gift of 
the Parish School children. The plans and superintendence of 
the building were given by the architect, Mr. C. H. Condit, of 
Newark. It is an early English building, of brick, seating four 
hundred persons, with a wooden recessed chancel. Since its 
completion, the services have increased in numbers and solem- 
nity, and the requirement of the Prayer Book is strictly con- 
firmed to, for the weekly. Octave, and Holy Day, Eucharists ; 
and daily service. The congregation grows in size, in regular 
and frequent attendance, in devout and decent worship ; and it 
is hoped also, in spirituality and holiness. A Mission Avork, a 
w^ork 'of consolation,' is asserting its poiver for good; going 
where it is sorely needed, with the loving help of faithful 
women. The Mission schools are very flourishing, more room 
having been given them, by the addition of the old chapel. 
There are two more teachers, and more scholars. The teachers 
are of the sort that work for the love of Christ, and of His 
lambs. Mr. Charles H. Bryan, a candidate for Holy Orders, 
assists Mr. Geo. Seymour Lewis in the care of the music, which 
is successful and promising. This constant service is still given, 
without salary, for love's sake. Much work too has been given 
by the people, in cleaning the chapel, washing the surplices, etc., 
without charge ; and works of mercy to the sick poor, given 
generally and thankfully, by the people, are tokens of spiritual 
life. The plan of daily religious training, and weekly public 
catechising, asserts still more and more, its su])eriority over the 
one hour's promiscuous teaching, in a Sunday School, of weary 
children, by untrained and inexperienced teachers. Through all 



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our struo'o'les, and under the shadow of our infinite mef, we are 
thankful and hopeful, and, thank God, in 'love, and peace, and 
unity among ourselves." " — Parochial Beporf, May '20th, 1859. 

AXXUAL COXrEXTIOX OF THE DIOCESE. 

St. Mary's Church, Burlington, 1 
May 2oth, a. d. 1859. j" 

This being the time and place appointed by the Constitution 
of the Diocese of Xew Jersey, for the Annual Convention, the 
Clergy and Lay Deputies assembled at 10 o'clock. 

Morning Prayer was said by the Rev. Messrs. Billopp and 
Merritt ; the Rev. Messrs. Reid and Weld readins; the Lessons. 
The Rev. Mr. Finch celebrated the Holy Communion, assisted 
by the Rev. Mr. Williams^ the Rev. Dr. Stubbs^ and the Rev. 
E. A. Hoffman. The Rev. John Kelly, rector of St. Paul's 
Church, Paterson, preached the Convention Sermon from 1 Cor. 
xiv. 8. For if the trunijjet give an uncertain sound, v:ho sho.U 
prepare himself to the boMe ? 

The services being concluded, the Secretary announced that a 
Cj_uorum of the Convention was present. 

On motion of the Rev. Mr. Dunn, seconded by the Hon. E. 
B. D. Ogden, the Rev. James A. AVilliarns was unanimously 
elected President of the Convention. 

The Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane Avas elected Secretary. 

The Secretary appointed the Rev. Philander Iv. Cady his 
Assistant. 

On motion of the Rev. E. A. Holfman, seconded by Cortland t 
Parker, Esq., the following was unanimously adopted : 

AVhereas, This Convention has assembled this day, under 
circumstances of peculiar solemnity, by reason of the recent 
decease of its late honored and beloved father in God, the Bishop 
of the Diocese, and cannot proceed to the ordinary business of 
the session without a tribute of affectionate veneration to his 
memory : therefore. 

Resolved, Unanimously, at this first opportunity of passing an 
order, that a committee of five — three clerical and two lay-mem- 
bers — be appointed to consider and report, what proceedings it 
is proper for this Convention to take, to testify their sense of 
the loss which this Diocese has sustained in its sore bereavment. 
and to do honor to the memory of their late Bishop. 



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On motion, 

Resolved, That the Rev. President appoint the Committee, of 
which himself should be the chairman. 

On motion of Judge Carpenter the following resolution was 
adopted : 

Resolved^ That the election of the Bishop of this Diocese be 
made the order of the day for to-morrow (Thursday), at 1 P. M., 
and that a Committee of five, to be named by the Chair, be 
appointed to report rules of proceeding to be observed in that 
election. 

The report of the Standing Committee was then read, in 
which are the following : 

Since the Bishop's death, the Standing Committee have held 
regular weekly meetings, and have endeavored faithfully to dis- 
charge the new duties imposed upon them as the ecclesiastical 
authority of the Diocese. 

"Their first act, as su^ch, was to assume in behalf of the Diocese, 
the entire expenses of the Bishop's funeral. 

" They have invited the Rev. Dr. Mahan to preach a sermon 
in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, on the evening of the first 
day of this Convention, commemorative of the late Bishop of 
the Diocese, and the invitation has been accepted." 

On motion, the Convention adjourned, to attend a memorial 
service and sermon in St. Mary's Church. 

MEMORIAL SERVICE. 

At 7J P. M., after Evening Prayer, the Memorial Service was 
held and sermon preached, which, at the request of the Conven- 
tion, was afterwards printed. Its title page reads thus : 

" The Great-Hearted Shepherd. — The Sermon in memory of 
the Right Reverend George Washington Doane, D. D., LL. D., 
late Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey ; preached by request 
of the Standing Committee, during the session of the Conven- 
tion of the Diocese, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, Wednes- 
day evening, May 25, A. d. 1859, by the Rev. M. Mahan, D. D., 
S. Mark's-in-the-Bowcry, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 
the General Theological Seminary." 

The text is : 

^^He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest 
thou me f Peter luas grieved, because he said unto him the third 
time, Lovest thou mef And he said unto him, Lord, thou hnoivest 



554 HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH 



oil things ; thou hmwest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him. 
Feed my sheep^ — St. John, xxi : 17. 

Thursday, May 26, 9 A. m. 
Morning prayer was said by the Rev. Messrs. Jaques and D. 
Brown, the Rev. Messrs. Goodwin and Arey reading the 
lessons. 

EESOI.UTIONS OF THE CONVEXTIOX. 

The Committee appointed to consider what proceedings it is 
proper for this Convention to take, in view of the death of their 
late Bishop, beg leave respectfully to report the following reso- 
lutions : 

1. Resolved^ That as becomes Christian men and members of 
Christ's Church, we do bow in humble submission under this 
chastisement of our Heavenly Father's hand ; and both as a 
people and in our individual approaches to the Throne of Grace, 
do beseech Him to sanctify to us, and to the Church of His love, 
this His fatherly correction. 

2. Resolved, That the remarkable mental and moral charac- 
teristics of Bishop Doane, his untiring, self-sacrificing and 
intense devotion of himself, soul, body, and spirit, to the cause 
to Avhich he consecrated his life, and his eminence as a poet, an 
orator, and a divine, have identified his name with the history 
of the Church and the country, and highly distinguished the 
State of his birth ; and that it is fit that his Diocese should take 
measures to erect some monument to his memory, worthy to 
perpetuate his fame. 

3. Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by this 
Convention, whose duty it shall be, without delay, either solely 
in behalf of this Convention, or in connection with any who may 
desire to share the honor, and having due regard to the wishes 
of his family, to carry out the above resolution. 

4. Resolved, That we hereby express to the bereaved family 
of Bishop Doane, our deep and heartfelt sympathy for their 
bereavement, and our earnest prayers that God will give them 
consolation and support here, and in His good time grant to 
them a blessed re-union with their departed head, where sorrow 
and sighing shall be no more. 

James A. Williams, 
Eugene Aug. Hoffman, 
Robert N. Merritt, 
E. B. Dayton Ogden, 

CORTLANDT PaRKER. 



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The following were appointed under the third resolution : the 
Rev. Messrs. Dunn, E. A. Hoffman, and Merritt, and Messrs. 
J. C. Garthwaite, and A. Browning. 

MODE OF ELECTING A BISHOP. 

The Rev. J. W. Shackelford, Chairman of the Committee on 
the mode of electing a Bishop, offered the following report, 
which Avas accepted and adopted : 

Resolved, That the election of a Bishop by this body, shall be 
without nomination or discussion of character, under the follow- 
ing rules : 

I. The vote shall be by ballot, one clergyman and one lay- 
man being appointed by the Chair, as tellers to receive and 
count the votes of the clergy, and one layman and one clergyman 
to receive and count the votes of the laity. 

II. The clergy and the laity, during the progress of the elec- 
tion, shall be seated separately, as may be directed by the Chair, 
the delegates of each parish being seated together. 

III. The clergy and the delegates of the several parishes 
shall, as called, respectively deposit their votes in the ballot 
boxes, the name of each clergyman and the name of each parish 
being distinctly announced at the time of giving the vote, but 
no one shall be deemed elected, without the concurrence of a 
majority of the votes of each order present and voting, and that 
a blank ballot shall be considered a vote. 

The Convention then proceeded to the election of officers, and 
the vote for members of the Standing Committee was taken by 
order. 

The vote of the Rev. Joshua Smith was challenged, but the 
challenge was not sustained by the Convention, the vote being : 
Ayes of the Clergy, 15 ; nays of the Clergy, 35. 
Ayes of the Laity, 25; nays of the Laity, 34. 
Divided, 3. 

The hour of one having arrived, the order of the day was 
postponed until the completion of the election of the Standing 
Committee. The following were elected : 



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STAXDIXG COMMITTEE. 

Of the Clergy, Of the Laity. 

Rev. James A. ^Villiams, J. C. Garthwaite, 

Alfred Stubbs, D. D., E. B. D. Ogden, 

E. A. Hoffman, D. Babbitt, ^M. D., 

R. X. Merritt. A. Browning. 

On the completion of this vote, the Convention entered upon 
:he solemnity of designating a Bishop for the Diocese. 



ELECTIOX OF THE THIRD BISHOP OF XEW JERSEY. 

-After singing from the 6 1st Psalm : 

To Tliee, God of liosts. vi-e pray. 

Thy wonted goodness. Lord, renew : 
From Heaven, Thy throne, this vine sttrvey, 

And her sad state with pity view. 

Behold tlie vineyard made by Thee. 

AVhich Thy right hand did guard so long ; 
And keep that branch from danger free. 

AVhich for Thyself Thou mad'st so strong. 

Do Thou convert us, Lord, do Thou 

The lustre of Thy face display ; 
And all the ills we sufter now. 

Like scatter" d cloitd-, shall pass away : 

Engaging in secret prayer, and uniting in selected collects 
■said by the President, the Chairman appointed as tellers : 

For the Clerical vote. For the Lay vote. 

Rev. J. Kelly, R. Hamilton, Esq., 

P. J. Gray, Esq. Rev. T. F. Billopp. 

The seats for the Clergy and Lay members of the Convention 
were arranged by the Chair. 

The Convention proceeded to ballot for Bishop of the Diocese, 
in which, with several recesses, it was engaged till 12 M., of 
May 27th, when the Rev. Dr. Mahan withdrew his name, and 
^he Convention proceeded to the 13th, and final, ballot. 

The following table shows the results of the various ballots: 



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At the conclusion of the 13th ballot, the President announced 
that the Rev. Wm. H. Odenheimer, D. D., having received a 
majority of the votes of both orders, was elected Bishop, f 

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Mahan, seconded by J. C. Garth- 
waite, Esq., the Convention unanimously declared that the Rev. 
William Henry Odenheimer, D.D., Rector of St. Peter's Church, 
Philadelphia, is elected Bishop of New Jersey. On motion of 
the Rev. E. A. Hoffman, the President appointed a Committee 
to wait on the Rev. Dr. Odenheimer, and inform him of his 
election. 

The Rev. Mr. Dunn, the senior Presbyter of the Diocese, 
rose and stated that this was the birthday of our late beloved 
Bishop, and the day of the month, and almost the hour of the 
day, on which he entered into his rest, and connecting with this, 
the unanimity of the election just announced, proposed that the 
Convention unite in singing the Gloria in Excelsis; after which, 
the Testimonials required by the Canon, beautifully engrossed 
on parchment, were brought out and to them were affixed the 
signatures of sixty-one clergymen, and eighty-nine laymen, — 
those from Burlington being, of the clergy : the Rev^ Wm. 
Croswell Doane, M. F. Hyde, Elvin K. Smith, E. M. Pecke, 
Chas. Fred. Hoffman, Horatio T. Wells ; and of the laity ; J. 
B. Parker, Thomas Milnor, William A. Rogers, J. Howard 
Pugh, M. D., Dr. John D. Moore, H. McDowell, Franklin 
Gauntt, M. D. 

THE VACANT RECTORSHIP. 

At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary's Church, held June 
13th, 1859, among other business, Mr. Wm. A. Rogers made a 
verbal communication from Rev. Charles F. Hoffinan, request- 

f Wm. Henry Odenheimer, son of John W. Odenheimer, was born in Phil- 
adelphia, Pa., August 11th, 1817 ; graduated at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, (having the V^aledictory oration,) July 30th, 1835 ; also at the General 
Theological Seminary, New York, June 29th, 1838 ; was ordained Deacon in 
St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia, September 2d, 1838, by Bishop H. U. Onder- 
donk ; became Assistant to the Rev. Dr. DeLancey of St. Peter's Church, 
Philadelphia, January 10th, 1839, and succeeded to the Rectorship on the 
consecration of Dr. DeLancey to the Episcopate of Western New York ; 
ordained Priest in St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia, October 3d, 1841, by 
Bishop H. U. Onderdonk ; received the honorary degree of D. D., from the 
University of Pennsylvania, July 3d, 1856. 



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ing some definite action, on the part of the Yestry, in regard to 
his continuing in charge of the Church. 

On motion, the following resolutions were adopted : 

1. Resolved, That it is not expedient to attempt to employ and 
elect a Rector in the present state of our Church finances. 

2. Resolved, That we tender to the Rev. Charles F. Hoffman 
our thanks for his kindness in consenting to assume, temporarily, 
(on the sudden decease of our late Rector,) and until further 
action of the Vestry, the charge of this parish. Our shepherd 
was truly snatched from us most unexpectedly — but he who had 
been his associate and Curate, notwithstanding the financial em- 
barrassments of the Church, did not hesitate to grant us a con- 
tinuance of his services until we should resolve to adopt some 
specific action in regard to the future. Under Providence, 
another Bishop has been elected ; and inasmuch as this parish 
has enjoyed for many years, the benefit of the counsels and min- 
istrations of the Bishop of the Diocese, we have also deemed it 
prudent, and believe it to be in accordance with the wishes of 
the congregation to forbear making any other engagement until 
we can have some consultation with the Bishop elect, who will 
probably adopt this city as the seat of his residence. 

3. Resolved, That the Rev. Charles F. Hoffman be tendered 
the use of the parsonage for the balance of the year. 

4. Resolved, That the Wardens request the clergy of this city 
to conduct the services of the Church, and discharge the duties 
of the parish. 

5. Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to furnish the 
Rev. Charles F. Hoffman with a copy of these resolutions. 

REV. DR. ODENHEIMER ACCEPTS THE EPISCOPATE. 

Shortly after the adjournment of the Convention, the Com- 
mittee, to whom was entrusted the duty of announcing to the 
Rev. Dr. Odenhiemer his election, placed with the Standing 
Committee his letter of acceptance. 

"Philadelphia, June 24th, 1859. 

Reverend Brethren and Gentlemen : 

" Your official communication, announcing to me my election 
unanimously declared, as Bishop of New Jersey, by the Seventy- 
Sixth Annual Convention of that Diocese, has received my most 
serious consideration. 

" The contemplation of the awful responsibilities of the Apos- 
tolic office, joined to the recollection of the manifold labours and 



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untiring energy of the Prelate whaua you have elected me to 
succeed, fills my soul with unaffected diffidence; nevertheles&, 
believing that it is the call of GoD^ and trusting in that great 
Name wherein alone resides all strength, I accept the nomina- 
tion. 

" Should your choice be ratified and consummated by the 
General Church, I am prepared, Christ helping me, to cease 
my ministrations at the Altar of my first and only Parish Church 
of St. Peter^s, Philadelphia, — where for nearly twenty-one years 
I have enjoyed the uninterrupted kindness of the noblest of con- 
gregations — and share henceforward with the faithful Clergy 
and Laity of Xew Jersey in the good work of extending the 
Gospel and Kingdom of our divine Loed. 
With great respect, 

Faithfully and Fraternally yours, 

William IIenry Odenheimer. 
To the Rev. M. Mahan, D. D., Rev. E. A. Hoffman, Rev. 
Jos. F. Garrison, M. D., Abm. Browning, Esq., R. S. Field, Esq.'^ 

COXSECRATIOX OF THE REV. DR. ODEXHEIMER. 

^Lls instructed by the Convention of the Diocese, the Com- 
mittee forwarded the testimonials of the election of the Rev. Dr. 
Odenheimer to the Episcopate of this Diocese, to the General 
Cou%^ention, assembled in Richmond, Virginia ; and Thursday, 
the thirteenth day of October, 1859, was appointed by the pre- 
siding Bishop for his consecration. Accordingly, on the day 
named, the solemn service was performed in St. PauFs Church, 
Richmond, Virginia, in the presence of a vast congregation of 
clergy and laity. 

" The Bishop elect was presented to the Presiding Bishop by 
the Bishop of Maryland and the Bishop of Pennsylvania. The 
Rev. Robert B. Croes and the Rev. Wm. C. Doane were present 
as attending Presbyters, and robed the Bishop elect during the 
service. It was a touching circumstance that this duty could be 
performed by sons of the only two Bishops who have hitherto 
filled the Episcopate of this Diocese. The Rt. Rev. Alfred Lee? 
D. D., Bishop of Delaware, preached the sermon. The Rt. Rev. 
Wm. Meade, D. D., of Virginia, Presiding Bishop, the Rt. Rev. 
Samuel A. McCoskry, D. D., D. C. L., Bishop of Michigan, 
the Rt. Rev. Wm. R. Whittingham, D. D., Bishop of Mary- 



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land,. the Rt. Rev. Carlton Chase, D. D., Bishop of New Hamp- 
shire, the Rt. Rev. C. S. Hawks, D. D., Bishop of Missouri, the 
Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Pennsylvania, 
and the Rt. Rev. John Williams, D. D., Assistant Bishop of 
Connecticut, united in the laying on of hands." — Convention 
Journal, 1860. 

BISHOP ODENHEIMER'S FIEST EPISCOPAL ADDRESS. 

The Rt. Rev. Dr. Odenheimer, third Bishop of New Jersey, 
thus opens his first Episcopal address: 

'^BretJwen beloved in the Lord: It was on the Thursday of 
the Holy Week of 1859, whilst celebrating the Eucharistic office 
in my parish church of St. Peter's, Philadelphia, that I was 
summoned to the bedside of the dying Prelate, who, for nearly 
twenty-seven years, had presided, as its second J>ishop, over the 
spiritual affairs of this Diocese. 

"It was the last time I saw him, until I beheld him at the 
close of the Easter week as he lay anointed for the burying, 
with his robes about him, looking in death as all along in life, 
like a Prince of the Church. 

I am not unaccjuainted with the history of this Diocese, and 
with the trials, as well as the labours of the late Bishop; and 
from the nature of our intercourse I think myself possessed of a 
knowledge of his character and purposes. 

''He was not only unselfish, but at times utterly regardless of 
self; and the conviction that he was right, led him to withhold 
explanations and to decline action, which would often have dis- 
armed opposition, and which the instincts of self preservation, 
had he cared at all for self, would have prompted. 

'' In controversy — Theological, Canonical, or Legal — he was 
an opponent that one would not willingly encounter the second 
time, and yet he was fall of genial impulses, accessible to kind- 
ness, and never deliberately uttering an unloving word, nor per- 
sistently doing an ungentle action. 

" As combining, in his own person, som« of the finest attri- 
butes of Friend, Scholar, Poet, Patriot, Pastor, and Bishop, he 
is worthy of a place among the most remarkable Ecclesiastics of 

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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



this, or of any age ; and the future historiographer of the Ameri- 
can Church, when he shall calmly contemplate the intellectual 
works which Bishop Doane projected and accomplished, will 
describe him as the ' myriad minded ' Bishop ; and if the full 
evidence of all the physical work which he wrought shall be 
known, he might add, the myriad handed Bishop. 

^' On the 27th day of May you elected me to the Episcopate 
of this Diocese. 

" The acceptance of your call, honorable as it was, could be 
no easy matter for any man, who, in addition to the cares of the 
Apostolic office, considered the character and career of the dis- 
tinguished Prelate whom he was to succeed. Had I looked to 
myself, nothing could have induced me to exchange the grateful 
repose of Pastoral subordination, for the inherent disquietude of 
Episcopal responsibility. But believing that it was God's will, 
and trusting in that great !N^ame wherein alone resides all 
strength, and relying on the sympathy and co-operation of the 
generous Churchmen of New Jersey, I accepted your nomination* 

" On the 13th of October, at the General Convention held in 
Richmond, Va,, your choice was consummated by my Consecra- 
tion, and I am here to-day to meet you, for the first time. 
Brothers Clerical and Lay of the Diocese, to take counsel in our 
Annual Convention, for the advancement of the faith and 
Church of our love. * * 

''Thursday, October 13th, 1859.— My first official act after 
my Consecration was to write and publish the following Pastoral 
Letter, a copy of which was duly sent by the Rev. Secretary 
of this Convention to the authorities of every Parish in the 
Diocese : 

' Richmond, Ya., October 13th, 1859. 

'"a pastoral letter from the bishop of new jersey. 
To the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of Neio Jersey : 

"'Brethren beloved in the Lord — Your choice of a 
Bishop has been cofisummated this morning, by my Con,^ecra- 
tion to the Episcopate of New Jersey ; and I make it my first 
official act to offer you, one and all, this my salutation and 



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563 



blessing. If it please God, I shall be among you as soon as 
possible after the adjournment of the General Convention, and 
in the meanwhile I invite such communications from my 
Reverend Brethren of the Clergy, as may enable me to under- 
stand their wishes in regard to Episcopal Services. 

"^May the blessing of God Almighty — the Father, the Son, 
and the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. 

'Affectionately, your Bishop, 

' W. H. Odexheimee.' " 

BISHOP ODENHEIMER NO STRANGEE IN BURLINGTON. 

''All Saints' Day, November 1st. — At noon, in the Chapel 
of the Holy Innocents, Burlington, I celebrated the Holy Com- 
munion, and addressed the pupils of St. Mary's Hall on the 
opening of the new term. Although this was my first official act 
within the walls of this Institution, I w^as no stranger to the 
place and its associations.f For seven years I had chosen Bur- 
lington for a summer residence for my family, and I was almost 
daily welcomed at the Hall by Bishop Doane, officiating at its 
services, acquainted with the Teachers and Pupils, and watch- 
ing the growth of this goodly vine planted by the hand, and 
nourished with the tears and life blood of the great Prelate, 
whose perpetual monument and praise it will remain, I trust, to 
the latest generation. * * 

" Wednesday November 9th. — At Burlington College, Bur- 
lington, I attended a meeting of the Board of Trustees of 
that Institution, which under God's blessing and the hearty 
co-operation of Churchmen may be made, I trust, to fulfil the 
intention of its founder, my Right Reverend Predecessor. 

" Friday, November 25th. — Said the Daily Morning and 
Evening Prayer in St. Mary^s Church, Burlington. I w^ill here 

f A sacramental knife, with a silver handle in the form of a Latin cross, 
in use in the parish, has this inscription: "St. Mary's Church, Burlington. 
Offering of a Priest." A note, in the handwriting of the Eev. Dr. Oden- 
heimer, of which the following is a transcript, lines the box in which it is kept : 
"A Thank Offering to the Lord for His mercy in restoring to health, and thus 
continuing to the Church, the wise counsel and effective labour of His servant, 
the Bishop of New Jersey; humbly presented and placed on the Altar of 'The 
Chapel of the Holy Child Jesus," by a Priest of the Catholic Church in Penn- 
sylvania, Christmas Day, 1853." 



564 HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



state, that I do not consider it necessary to record always my 
share in the Daily Prayer of the Church, unless an Address, or 
other special act shall require it. Accustomed for many years 
to have access to a daily public worship of Almighty God, I 
must always desire to avail myself, as a Christian man and not 
simply as a Bishop, of the privilege wdierever a House of Prayer 
may be opened for Divine Service." — Ejnscojjal Address, 1860. 

THE DEATH OF MRS. DOANE. 

Mrs. Doane entered into rest, Nov. 10th, 1859, at Florence,, 
in Italy, " exactly six months,'^ writes her son, "from the day on 
wdiich she received the tidings of her bereavement." A corres- 
pondent of the Church Journal gives the following tribute to 
her memory : 

"A mission of love led Mrs. Doane to Europe in October, 1856, 
and detained her there, a ministering angel to dear invalids. 
There, the news of her great affliction reached her. The mother's 
love was still strong to bear, and kept her for a brief space by 
the dear one's couch ; but the wife's heart was broken, and very 
soon the faithful, loving nurse was missed from her accustomed 
place, for the silver cord w^as loosening, and in a few short 
months, her freed spirit rejoiced with his in the Paradise of God. 

" Gifted with beauty, wealth, station, the most devoted love of 
family and friends, she had yet no thought for self. She only 
lived to minister to others. With equal truth can it be said of 
her, as of Bishop Doane, she Svent about doing good,^ dispens- 
ing sunshine in every darkened dwelling. Every one who has 
lived in Burlington since Mrs. Doane became a resident here, 
knows how freely her wealth flowed out to all who were in need. 
And, in St. Mary's Parish, who that has ever been in 'trouble, 
sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity,' has not treasured 
memories of Mrs. Doane's love and sympathy, and, if need be 
helping hand? Was a child kept from Sunday School or 
Church for want of shoes or suitable clothing? Mrs. Doane 
supplied them. Did any poor widow dread the approach of 
Winter, with no fuel in store? It was at her door, and Mrs. 
Doane sent it. Was there an invalid longing for fresh air, with- 
out the means of enjoying it? Mrs. Doane had thought of this, 
and sent a carriage. And every year, what bountiful provision 
was made, that every poor man's family in the parish should be 
gladdened with the Christmas feast? Nor was Mrs. Doane's 
bounty confined to St. Mary's parish and the little city of Bur- 



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565 



liiigtou. Beginning at home, it did not stop there. Many a 
gift found its Avay from Kiverside to the families of faithful 
missionaries, or laborious clergymen, whose parishes forgot their 
duty. Nor was it confined to the Diocese, but responded gladly 
to all who were doing the work of the Great Head of the Church. 
All this was done, and much more ; quietly, noiselessly, as the 
dew descends and refreshes the earth. 

What a model for every Christian woman was Mrs. Doane in 
her dress, so beautiful in its exceeding neatness and simplicity ! 
For herself and her children she literally obeyed the Apostle's 
injunction, adorning herself and them 'in modest apparel, not 
with gold, or pearls, or costly array, but with good works.' 

''What an example, too, was Mrs. Doane's daily life, of devo- 
tion to the House of Prayer! Before sickness came, how rarely v 
was her place vacant ! The walk was long, but no weather 
kept her at home. Not even a night's watch by a sick person, 
could induce her to be absent at the hour of Morning Prayer. 
She loved to be there. Who, of the inmates of St. Mary's Hall 
in those days,, will not remember the quiet opening of the pri- 
vate door of their beautiful Chapel, as Mrs. Doane glided in, 
and knelt so reverently among them ? Riverside was seldom, 
if ever, without guests. If they would accompany her, she was 
most happy ; but if not, she stole away alone, for the few mo- 
ments of noonday prayer, also. The writer loved to kneel 
beside her there, and listen to her earnest tones as she united so 
heartily in the solemn Litany. ' Is it not delightful here? ' she 
said one day, as we lingered after the rest had retired. ' I 
never like to go away. It seems to me the very gate of heaven.' 

"Mrs. Doane loved children, and never was happier than 
when giving them pleasure. Which of the children of St. 
Mary's Hall, before sorrow and sickness came to Riverside, did 
not count the days from Epiphany to the Fourth of July, and 
from the Fourth of July to Epiphany, when all the children 
were made happy in their father's house ? Who does not re- 
member who was the leader in all their games — whose laugh 
rang clearest, sweetest — the merriest child among all ? If there 
was one more happy then than Mrs. Doane, it was he whose 
great heart had gathered them all, and who was among them, 
.as loving a father as she a mother. Who that ever was present 
when the children of the parish school met at Riverside to 
receive each 'a little token of remembrance,' will ever forget 
the scene ? 

" This is a simple tribute from a distant Diocese. One who 
when a little child first became acquainted with Bishop and Mrs. 
Doane — who has loved and reverenced them ever since — whose 



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every joy for many years was heightened by their participation ^ 
and every sorrow soothed by their love and sympathy — can only 
say of Mrs. Doane, in fewest words, but those she w^ould have 
loved the best, God gave her to the great-hearted Shepherd of 
Xew Jersey, Ho be an help meet for hhn.^ 

ST. MARY's parish placed 11!^" CHARGE OF BISHOP 
ODEXHEIMER. 

At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary's Church, held Jan- 
uary 16th, 1860, Mr. Thomas Milnor, Senior Warden, presid- 
ing. Dr. Franklin Gauntt offered the following : 

Resolved, That the Wardens of St. Mary's Church be author- 
ized to place the Parish in the charge of the Bishop, and request 
him to farnish a suitable clergyman for the present, who can, 
under his direction, give a large proportion of his time to the 
duties of the Parish. 

Resolved, That the clergyman appointed by the Bishop to 
attend to the parish duties of St. Mary's Church, be allowed as 
compensation, the use of the parsonage and a salary, at the rate 
of i ive Hundred Dollars per annum. 

EVEXSOXG AT BURLIXGTOX. 
\_By the Eev. -Thomas Lyle.'] 

Bright beams the moon o'er Delaware 

As twilight fades away, 
And lends the wave more beauty far 

Than it had known by day ; 
On the sweet shore, the flakes of light 

Stream down in silvery shower, 
And kiss the cross on Riverside, 

And crown our lady's tower. 

Balm fills the air ; the hush of eve 

Spreads, brooding from the sky, 
Unstirr'd, save by the vesper chime 

That softly floats on high ; 
Heart-music that, whose every note 

Is fraught with heaven's own love — 
A Father's call, to cease from earth, 

And raise the thoughts above. 

The chapter clerks in Mary's aisle 

Before their altar stand ; 
The good priest of St. Barnabas' 

Kneels with his faithful band ; 
And, laden with the burthen rich 

Of earnest prayer and laud. 
Their breath to Heaven like incense goes, 

And bears their souls to God. 



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And soon, along yon moonlit marge, 

The sound of holv prayer, 
And sweet-voiced cliant of youths and maids. 

Shall fill the fragrant air ; 
For there the college choirs, with psalms 

Shall make their chantry ring, 
And sweet St. Mary's daughters join 

Their compline hymns to sing. 

Blest evensong ! blest close of day ! 

Blest hour to Jesus given I 
No note of praise, no word of prayer, 

Shall be unheard in Heav'n. 
God's rest, sweet sleep, shall fall on those 

"Who thus in Him delight. 
And a kind Parent's patient love 

Shall guard them through the night. 

Unceasing be these cheerful rites, 

Till time itself shall end ; 
For, not alone on those who kneel 

Shall answering grace descend. 
On friends afar, on Holy Church, 

On sinners wandering. 
These faithful orisons shall draw 

Fresh blessings from our King. 

LIABILITIES OF ST. MAEY's CHURCH. 

At a meeting of the Yestry, held August 20th, I860, the 
Finance Committee submitted their report, by which it appears 
that the present liabilities of the Church are a trifle over 
821,000.'^ 

bishop ODENHEIMER resigns THE CHARGE OF THE PARISH. 

At the same Yestry meeting, Mr. Wm. A. Hogers stated that 
the Bishop requested him to say to the Yestry, that he wished 
to resign his charge of the Church, as provided by a resolution 
passed January 16th, 1860. The Bishop's resignation was ac- 
cepted, and the following resolution adopted : 

Resolved, That the thanks of this Yestry be gratefully ten- 
dered to the Bishop, for so kindly undertaking and discharging 
the additional labours imposed by his recent charge of St. Mary's 
Church. 

Dr. Gauntt offered the following : 

Resolved, That a Committee of three, be appointed to consult 
with the Bishop, to select with his approval, a suitable clergy- 
man to be nominated as Rector of this parish. 



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The resolution was adopted, and the chair appointed the fol- 
lowing Committee : Messrs. Dr. Gauntt, Wm. A. Rogers, E. 
Howell. 

RIVERSIDE PROCURED FOR AX EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE. 

On the 17th day of July, 1860, the Trustees of Burlington 
College, assembled at Burlington, having under consideration a 
deed of trust, whereby the residence on Green Bank, Burling- 
ton, known as Riverside, with a suitable curtilage, was secured 
forever as a residence of the Bishop of the Diocese ; ^ On motion, 
it was Resolved, That the Bishop, if he concurs, be requested to 
report to the next meeting of this Board that he consents to the 
curtilage so marked and defined, and that he be requested to 
state at the next Annual Convention, that the curtilage has been 
assigned to his satisfaction/ 

''It was thus made my duty, which I hereby discharge to 
report to this Convention that, whereas, by a deed of trust, 
which I append to, and make part of, this Address, the resi- 
dence on the bank at Burlington, known as Riverside, with a suit- 
able curtilage, was secured forever as the residence of the Bishop 
of the Diocese ; I have consented, as Bishop, to the following 
curtilage marked and defined by the Board of Trustees of Bur- 
lington College, to wit : ' That the ground lying next to the river, 
west and south of lines parallel with Pearl street and the boundary 
line of St. Mary's Hall property, the one equi-distant between 
Pearl street and the River Front of the Mansion ; the other 
twenty feet south-west of the Chapel wall, be appropriated as 
the curtilage, with an avenue or passage of eleven feet in width 
to Pearl street, on the line next to St. Mary's Hall. The pas- 
sage is intended to give convenient access to Pearl street from 
the Mansion grounds.' 

" I deem it proper to state, that after having adjusted the cur- 
tilage of Riverside, as above reported, they proceeded to resolve, 
that until otherwise directed by the Board of Trustees, the entire 
grounds of Riverside, as also the Lodge, be left as heretofore in 
the occupation of the Bishop. Of course such part outside of 



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the coTtilage to be held at the will of the Trustees, ATithout any 
Tesponsibility on their part to repair or rebuild." — Episcopal 
Address, 1861. 

iley. william croswell do axe elected eector of st. 
Mary's parish.! 

"Burlington, Sept. 1 7th, 1860. 

Key. axd Dear Sir : 

The undersigned, a Committee of the Wardens and Vestry- 
men of St. Mary's Church, have the pleasure to announce that 
at their stated meeting held on the evening of the 10th inst., 
you were unanimously elected Rector of said Church, to assume 
the duties at your earliest convenience. 

"In the present condition of the Church we cannot fix the 
salary higher than §500 per annum and the Parsonage. 

" Sincerely trusting you will feel it incumbent on you to 
accept this call, as true and long tried friends we respectfully 
suggest the propriety of continuing the services as conducted by 
your late lamented Father, believing that such a course will be 
highly acceptable to all the congregation, make us once more a 
united people, and with your valuable assistance add greatly to 
the resources of the Parish. 

" Desiring an early answer, believe us 

" Your sincere friends, 

" Franklix Gauxtt, 
^MVm. J. Watsox. 
" To the Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, B. D.'^ 

t Wm. Croswell Doane, second son of the Kt. Eev. George "W. Doane, Avas 
born in Boston, Mass., March 2d, 1832 ; removed with his father to Burling- 
ton in the spring of 1833 ; graduated at Burlington College, Sep. 26th, 1850 ; 
became a candidate for Holy Orders the same year ; was ordered Deacon, by 
his father, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, March 6th, 1853; elected Assist- 
ant Minister of St. Mary's Parish, Burlington, April 4th, 1853 ; proceeded 
M. A. in Burlington College, Sep. 29th, 1853 ; was advanced to the priesthood, 
by his father, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, March 16th, 1856 ; resigned 
the Assistantship of St. Mary's, May 2d, 1856; and, the same year, proceeded 
B. D. in Burlington College, and founded St. Barnabas' Free Mission, Bur- 
lington ; where he was ministering when chosen Rector of St. Mary's Parish. 



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REV. ME. DOAXE's LETTER ACCEPTING THE RECTORSHIP OF 

ST. mart's parish. 

''Burlington, Sept. 18th, A. D. 1860. 
To Franklin Gauntt, M. D., Wm. J. Watson, Esq., Committee : 

Gextlemex — My very kind friends : 

'' My necessary absence from home, under the pressure of a 
severe bereavement, kept from me until last night, your letter 
announcing, on behalf of the Vestry of St. Mary's Parish, my 
unanimous election to be your Rector. I pass over the kind 
suggestion of the latter portion of your note, as not bearing upon 
the question in hand, and as trenching upon those spiritual cares 
which are the sole province of your Rector. But I must say 
that the reference you make is most grateful to me as recalling 
the fact that you have honored me with the offer to succeed my 
beloved Father, in a charge to which he devoted so much of his 
life and love. Hallowed to me by such associations, I feel 
deeply touched in the mere thought of coming to be the Guard- 
ian of his memory, his labours, and his grave, in the Parish of 
my Christian training and confirmation, and first communion 
and double ordination at his hands ; and among the people for 
whom he lived and died, and to whom the first three years of 
my ministry were devoted under him. 

''After an earnest and solemn consideration of the whole 
subject, and acting under the entire approval of the Bishop, and 
under the advice by which my life is mainly governed, (more 
urgent now since death has sealed the lips of one who gave it,) 
I have decided, God helping me, to undertake the great and 
solemn trust, to which, I believe. He calls me through you. 
You have taken me, ^a man of your coasts,' and set me for 
your 'watchman,' knowing me thoroughly and well. May 
God direct and bless the issues of your choice. 

" While I authorize you to communicate this fact to the Ves- 
try of St. Mary's Parish, I must ask you also to add to such 
communication the following statement which I deem necessary 
to a full and clear mutual understanding from the first : 

" In coming to St. jNlary's Parish to assume entirely and dis- 
charge, to the best of my ability, the full round of Parochial 



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571 



dutieSj I cauuot reconcile it to my conscience or my heart to 
give up the work of my mission, which, under God, owes its 
origin and continuance to me ; and to the people of which I am 
bound by the strongest ties of sympathy and love. I know 
that I ask in such a declaration the exercise of your fullest con- 
fidence ; but I ask it, sincerely believing myself able to serve 
the interests of both, by making those interests one ; by a plan 
whose details I may communicate to you hereafter. 

" It will of course be essential to this end, that I should have 
an assistant at once. I believe the way is opening to secure this 
at slight additional expense to the Parish. And I have no de- 
sire to make the Vestry responsible except to me. 

" The selection and appointment of the Assistant resting with 
me, his remuneration would also come from me. But, while I 
respect the manner in which the Vestry mention the amount of 
the Eector's salary as fixed only 'for the present;^ indicating 
their own impression of the unfitness of the amount either to the 
dignity of the Rectorship or to the ability of the congregation, 
and while I desire in no way, to seek the ' hire ' which is the 
due of every Maborer,' I must ask of the Vestry that in acting 
upon my acceptance they should take ground which will enable 
me at once to secure and pay for, the services of an Assistant, 
at, at least, one-half the salary proposed for the Rector. 

" Beyond this there is no need of words. I shall count upon 
the hearty co-operation of the Vestry and Parishioners, in an 
earnest effort to lessen and liquidate the debt resting upon the 
Parish, and it will be my constant aim to train the people of my 
charge, to what I believe the essential element of Church exten- 
sion, and the only true motive and manner of Church support, 
the abolition of pews, and of every other seeming equivalent for 
the free gift of our substance to God. 

In such heart and such hope I am willing to change my 
humble and more congenial position for one of harder labours 
and higher responsibilities. Many personal reasons and press- 
ing duties will prevent my asking for Institution at the Bishop's 
hands, before the first Sunday in Advent, Dec. 2d, and until 



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then I should not assume the full jyersonal responsibility of the 
charge. 

^'But if the Vestry desire, I will assume the direction of the 
Parish from and after the 18th day of October; providing for 
all parochial duties ; and devoting the time between that and 
■my Institutionf to such consultation and thought as may best 
secure the great end in view. 

"Earnestly asking the aid and comfort of your prayers; and 
with the sincere assurance that my constant aim will be the 
restoration and perpetuation of amity and harmony among our- 
selves; and with an humble reliance on Him, Who alone 
maketh men to be of one mind in an house, that He — the Great 
Shepherd and Bishop of our Souls, may bless this decision, to 
the advancement of His Church, and the salvation of His souls. 

" I remain very sincerely and faithfully, your friend and ser- 
vant for Jesus' sake, 

" Wm. Croswell Doane." 

burlixgtox college. 
The first annual commencement of Burlington College, was 
held on Thursday, the 26th of September, 1850. The pro- 
gramme on that occasion, will give the best idea of the exer- 
cises on each similar occasion for ten years following. It reads 
thus : 

The Procession will go from the College Library to the General Study in the 

following 

O R D E I^. 

Faculty of Burlington College. 
Librarian of Burlington College, and Financial Agent. 

Teachers of Burlington College. 
Matron and Ladies connected with Burlington College, 
Matron and Teachers of St. Mary's Hall. 
Invited Guests. 
The Eeverend Clergy. 
Students. 
Trustees of Burlington College. 
The Graduating Class. 
Rev. Kector. Et. Eev. President. Eev. Principal of St. Mary's Hall. 



fThe Eev. Mr. Doane Avas instituted into the rectorship of St. Mary's par- 
ish, by Bishop Qdenheimer, I>Iay 26th, 18(51. 



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573 



OEDEK OF EXERCISES IX THE GEXEEAL STUDY. 

3ir5IC. 

An English Oration, v:ith the Salutatory Addresses — The ExoDrs feo3I Col- 

i.ECxE IS THE Genesis of Life — George McCuUoch Miller. 
The Essay, in Italian — The Powek of Associatiox — Geo. Hobart Doane.. 

TLFSIC . 

The Eulogy, in P/'<?/2c7i— Lafayette — "William Croswell Doane. 
The Trilogy, in German — Schelswig Holsteix — The Graduating Class.-^ 

MTSIC. 

The Oration, in Latin — Paexassus — George McCullocli Miller. 
The English Oration — Sm Philip Sidney — George Hobart Doane. 
31 r s I c . 

The Dialogue, in GreeJc — Poetey — Geo. H. Doane, "Wm. C. Doane, 
The English Poem — Maetyes — "William Croswell Doane.. 
31 r s I c . 

The Dissertation, in Spanish — Caeeox — George McCullocli Miller. 
An English Oration, with the Valedictory Addresses — The Last I — William. 

Croswell Doane. 
Ai r s I c . 

Investiture of the Class entering College, 
ii r s I c . 
12 O'CLOCK, M. 
The Procession will go from the General Study to St. ^Mary's Church, in, 

the following 
ORDER. 

Eev. Etcior. Et. Eev. President. Eev. Principal of St. Mary's Hall,. 
Faculty of Burlington College. 
Band of Music, 
The Cxraduatiug Class, 
Trustees of Burlington College. 
Matron and Ladies connected with Burlington College, 

Matron and Teachers of St. Mary's Hall. 
Librarian of Burlington College, and Financial Agent. 
Students, 
Invited Guests. 
The Eeverend Clergy. 
OEDEE OF EXEECISES IX THE CHUECH. 
Anthem, by the College Choir — 150th Psalm. 
The Bidding Prayer. 
The Litany. 
Chant, by the College Choir— 11 Sth Psalm. 
The Baccalaureate Address. 
Degrees Conferred. 

Chant, by the College Choir, during the Investiture — 119th Psalm, 2d part:^ 

The Blessing. 
Anthem, by the College Choir — Psalm 147. 
The Holy Communion. 
Voluntary. 



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The Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, in his Memoir of his father 
(pp. 45; 46,) thus describes the scene ; Doctors and Masters 
and Bachelors and undergraduates, with their distinctive gowns 
and hoods, were about the Bishop. And the^z^rs^ thing, was to 
kneel in silent prayer. Then, when the music stopped, he 
stood erect, and bowed. ^ Auditores docti ac benevoli, hi juvenes 
nostri, primam lauream ambientes, vos, per Oratorem, salutare 
cupiunt : quod, illis a vobis concessura, fidunt.' And then 
taking his seat, with a bow to the Salutatorian : ^Orator salu- 
tatorius, in lingua Latina ascendat.' This was the signal for 
each, ^Orator, in lingua Gallica, Orator in lingua Yernacula ; 
Orator Valedictorius.' When all was done the sixth form 
stood before him ; and turning to the audience, cap-in-hand, he 
said 'Hosce, pueros, olim, de nostra JForma sexta, hodie in 
classem nostram, junior dictam, admittere proponimus, eosque 
induere toga virili, Academi?e Nostrse.^ And they knelt for his 
favorite blessing, ^ Unto God's gracious mercy, we commit you.' 
After this, the procession went directly to the Church. Seated 
in his Episcopal Chair, drawn out to the choir steps, still in 
Academic dress, with the Rector and Senior Professor on either 
side, and the candidates for degrees before him ; after the Bid- 
ding Prayer and Litany, [see p. 488] he delivered his Baccalau- 
reate. This done, the conferring of degrees began. Standing up, 
he addressed the Trustees, ' Curatores honorandi, ac reverendi ; 
juvenes, quos coram vobis, videtis, publico examini, secundum 
hujus academi^e leges, subjecti; habiti fuerunt omnino digni, 
honoribus academicis exornari; vobis igitur comprobantibus, 
illos ad gradum petitum, toto animo admittam.' And when the 
answer came from the President, ^ Comprobamus ;' he took his 
seat, put on his Oxford cap, and one by one, as the boys knelt 
before him, he gave them their degree. ' Ad honorem Domini 
nostri Jesu Christi ; ad profectum Ecclesiee Sacrosanct^e, et 
omnium studiorum bonorum ; do tibi (putting a Greek Testa- 
ment in their hands) licentiam legendi, docendi, disputandi, et 
c£etera omnia faciendi; qufe ad gradum Baccalaurei [or, Ma- 
gistri; or, Baccalaurei in Uteris sacris] in Artibus, pertinent; 
cujus hocce diploma sit testimonium, in Nomine, Patris et Filii, 
et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.' And each time, he lifted his cap 



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575 



at the mention of the Triune Name. The Service ended, alwajs, 
with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist/^ 

ALUMNI OF BUKLINGTON COLLEGE. 

From 1850 to 1860, both years included, there were gradu- 
ates in Arts, every year continuously, with one exception. The 
names of these gentlemen, as given in the catalogue for 1872, 
are as follows : 

CLASS OF MDCCCL. 



George Hobart Doane, A. M., M. D. Neivark, N. J. 

Kt. Eev. Wm. Croswell Doane, A. M., B. D., D. D Albany, N. Y. 

George McCulloch Miller, A. M New York, N. Y. 

Eev. Jolin Trimble, A. M., D. D Georgetoivn, D. C. 

Eev. Edward Purdon Wright, A. M., D. D ..Dayton, 0. 

CLASS OF MDCCCLL 

Eev. Hobart Chetwood, A. M., B. D Neivburgh, N. Y. 

"^Frederick Augustus Clarke, A. M Elizabethtown, N. J. 

Eev. Wm. Tilghman Johnston, A. M., B. D Waverly, Md. 

Eev. Joseph Shepherd Mayers, A. M., B. D Elizabethport, N. J. 

Christopher Wolfe Smith, A. M Neivark, N. J. 

Sheldon Hanford Smith, A. M " " 

CLASS OF MDCCCLII. 

William Cushman Avery, A. M., M. D Greensborough, Ala. 

Nathaniel Bailey Boyd, A. M Philadelphia, Pa. 

John Henry Hobart Brientnall, A. M., M. D Newark, N. J. 

Eev. Francis Dayton Canfield, A. M Philadelphia, Pa. 

"^George Whiting Garth waite, A. M Neivark, N. J. 

Eichard Stockton Jenkins, A. M Lancaster, Pa. 

■^Devereux Klapp, A. M Philadelphia, Pa. 

Charles Willing Littell, A. M Germantoivn Pa. 

^Warren Livingston, A. M Neiv Brunswick, N. J. 

"^Lindley Hoffman Miller, A. M Morristown, N. J. 

Eev. Walter Alexander Mitchell, A. M., B. D Ellicott City, Md. 

George Champlin Mason Mumford, A. M New York. 

Dayton Ogden, A. M Paterson, N. J. 

Eev. James Atchison Upjohn, A. M , Caldivell, N. Y. 

BACHELOR OF ARTS, honoris causa. 

William Edward Coale, M. D Boston, 3Iass. 

Jacob Da Costa, M. D , Philadelphia, Pa. 

Henry Tudor Brownell Hartford, Conn. 



* Deceased. 



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CLASS OF MDCCCLIII. 

I?aac P. Brewer, A. B Haddonfield, N. J. 

Rev. Gideon J. Burton, A. M... Sunbury, Pa. 

Jeremiah C. Garth waite, Jr., A. M Newark, N. J. 

C. Gilbert Hannah, A. B Salem, N. J. 

John Lathrop, A. M Dedham, Mass. 

Thomas W. Ryall, A. B Freehold, A'. J, 

J. AVatson Webb, Jr., A. B New York. 

MASTER OF ARTS, honoris causa. 

Rev. Andrew Mackie Newark, N. J. 

Jacob Da Costa, M. D Philadelphia, Pa. 

John L. Blake.. Orange, N. J. 

CLASS OF MDCCCLIV. 

F. W. Alexander, A. M Baltimore, Md. 

Henry O. Claggett, A. M Leesburg, Va. 

Rev. P. Voorhees Finch, A. M Pittsburgh, Pa. 

^A. Montgomery King, A. M Newark, N. J. 

(r. Hood McLaughlin, A. M Augusta, Ga. 

William Vanderpool, A. M Newark, N. J. 

CLASS OF MDCCCLV. 

Rev. Hugh L. M. Clarke, A. M Borne, N. Y. 

^Rev. George Seymour Lewis, A. M Lewes, Del. 

Rev. T. Gardiner Littell Wilmington, Del. 

MASTER OF ARTS, honoris causa, 
^Rev. Harry Finch Shrewsbury, N. J. 

CLASS OF MDCCCLYI. 

Luke Davis Chad wick, A. B Newark, N. J. 

James Otis Watson, A. B Portsmouth, A\ H. 

"Rev. Robert Greene Chase, A. M Philadelphia, Pa. 

Rev. Edwin Bailey Chase, A. M Cambridgeport, Mass. 

MASTER OF ARTS, honoris causa. 

Rev. John Wragg Shackelford Newark, N. J. 

Rev. Edward Augustus Foggo Bordentown, N. J. 

Rev. Daniel Caldwell Millett Burlington, N. J. 

CLASS OF MDCCCLVII. 

"Francisco D. H. Baquet, A. M Burlington, N. J. 

Bradbury C. Chetwood, A. M Elizabeth, N. J. 

Rev. Henry W. Nelson, A. M Hartford, Ct. 

Beach Vanderpool, Jr., A. B * Newark, N. J. 

"^Deceased. 



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MASTER OF ARTS, Jionoris cciusa. 
Eev. William H. Williams Ridgefield, Ct. 

CLASS OF MDCCCLYIII. 

Henry C. Enssell, A. B Pottsville, Pa. 

William B. Gifien, A. B ^''eiv Orleans, La. 

James A. C. Xowland, A. B t New Castle, Bel. . 

Frederic Engle, Jr., A. B Burlinr/ion, N. J. 

MASTER OF ARTS, honovis causa. 

Rev. William Murphy Snoiu Hill, Md. 

Rev. Josepli Dean Philip Brooklyn, N. Y. 

CLASS OF MDCCCLIX. 



CLASS OF MDCCCLX. 

Rev. Custis P. Jones, A. B Washington, D. C. 

Gen. E. Bard Grabb, A. B Burlington, N. J. 

RESOLUTIONS OX THE EESIGXATIOX OF THOMAS MILNOR. 

At a meeting of the Yestry of St. Mary's Church, held No- 
vember 7th, I860, the Committee reported the following reso- 
lutions, which were unanimously adopted : 

" AVhereas, Thomas Milnpr, Esq., the Senior Warden and 
Treasurer of this Parish, has communicated to the Vestry, his 
desire to resign his positions, both as Warden and Treasurer; 

'^Besokedj That in accepting Mr. Milnor's resignation, the 
Vestry act only from a sense of courtesy to him and from an 
unwillingness to resist his plainly expressed wish. 

^^Besolvedf That the Vestry cannot sever the official connec- 
tion, which has so long existed between Mr. Milnor and them- 
selves, without expressing their sense of his long and faithful 
service, both as Warden and Treasurer, extending over a period 
of many years; under depressing and difficult circumstances, 
calling for the exercise of prudence, patience, forbearance, and 
liberality, which have never failed. 

"Besolved, That the Vestry sincerely regret the necessity, 
which compels them to accept this resignation ; and that as an 
expression of their regret and esteem, these resolutions be 
entered on the minutes of the Vestry, and a copy signed by the 
Rector, and Secretary of the Vestry, be sent to Mr. Milnor. 

"Wm. Croswell Doaxe, Chairman. 
"W. A. Rogers, 
"H. McDowell.'^ 
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PASTORAL LETTER IN BEHALF OF BURLINGTON COLLEGE. 

Among the noble foundations for Christian Education, 
which the zeal of the late Bishop, and the co-operation of gen- 
erous friends, secured for the Diocese of New Jersey, and the 
Church at large, is Burlington College. 

'^As St. Mary's Hall was designed for the education of our 
daughters, so Burlington College was planned to give our sons 
a thorough preparatory and university training. This latter 
Institution has never been adequately sustained by practical 
sympathy and support; and, therefore, according to mine office, 
which fills me with solicitude for the proper intellectual as well 
as Christian nurture of the lambs of ray flock, I now remind 
the members of my Diocese of their privilege and duty in this 
particular. 

" The necessity of a distinctively Christian education, to fit 
our sons for their political and religious responsibilities, is not 
more evident, than is the moral obligation resting upon us to 
sustain, ])y our patronage and prayers, our own Diocesan Col- 
lege. Its discipline, and course of study bear the impress of 
large experience and elegant scholarship, and are perfect for all 
the purposes of the highest Collegiate and Christian culture; 
and there is only wanted the conscientious interest of the church- 
men of New Jersey, to make the Institution in fact, what, in its 
theory, it was designed to be by its founder. That interest I 
now invoke, by commending to your earnest attention the 
accompanying appeal of the Rector, and by asking you to scru- 
tinize for yourselves the working of the College as at present in 
operation, and, if satisfactory, to send there your sons, and the 
sons of those over whom you have influence. 

"It is entitled, in my opinion, to entire confidence in all its 
departments. Moral, Domestic, and Academical; and it possesses 
in its Rector, the Reverend J. Breckenridge Gibson, A. M., a 
gentleman eminently fitted, in connection with his estimable 
wife, to make the Institution a refined Christian home. 

"William Henry Odenheimer, 
Bishop of New Jersey and President of Burlington College. 
"Riverside, February 9th, A. D. 1861." 

A FALDSTOOL FOR THE EPISCOPAL CHAIR. 

On the 10th of March, 1861, a Faldstool, of black walnut, 
was placed in front of the Episcopal Chair, " near to the Holy 
Table." The book-board of the faldstool has a brass plate, 
with this inscription : 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



579 



THE BISHOP OF NEW JERSEY. 
I teas glad tvhen they said unto me, loe icill go irdo the House 
of the LordJ Fourth Sunday in Lent, A. D. 18 31." 

STATEMENT TO THE COXGREGATION OF ST, MARY's PARISHj 
BURLINGTON, N. J. 

The Eector, Wardens, and Yestryraen of St. Mary's Parish 
have long borne, alone, the anxiety consequent upon the large 
indebtedness of the Parish. The actual labour of the financial 
administration of its affairs, falls naturally upon them, and they 
have no disposition to avoid it. But they feel it right that the 
difficulties under which they often labour, should be understood 
by the congregation, in order that the plans which they adopt 
may be fairly judged, and the reason of their pecuniary embar- 
rassment may be fully known. They recognize, moreover, the 
entire right of every member of the congregation to be informed 
of the exact position of its affairs ; and feel, that the consequent 
upon this right, the duty rests upon the people directly, and 
upon the Vestry, only as their representatives, of assuming, and 
providing for, the expenses of the Parish. In a word, the 
Vestry feel that the indebtedness belongs to the congregation, 
and that they, and not the Vestry, are bound to meet it. 

" Holding this view, the Vestry, at a meeting held on the 
29th January in this year, passed the following resolution : 

^Resolved, That the Rector, Wardens, and Treasurer, be a 
committee to prepare a full statement of the financial condition 
of the Parish, showing their assets and liabilities, revenue and 
current expenses, with a view of making a detailed report to the 
congregation.' 

"The Committee so appointed, after a minute and extended 
examination of books, papers, reports, and deeds, presented their 
report, w^iich w^as accepted and entered upon the minutes of the 
Vestry. This report, condensed in some points, and in others, 
enlarged, is now laid before the congregation. 

The assets include all the property of the Parish. The 
Church building is valued at its actual cost ; estimated from a 
condensed statement of the accounts of the Building Committee, 
made by the present Treasurer. And the other property is set 
down at a very moderate valuation. 



580 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



" The liabilities will be found to include unpaid interest 
(monies and salaries of other years) ; but to be made up chiefly 
of monies borrowed for the erection and completion of the new 
Church building. 

ASSETS. 

Church Building |48,220 00 

Old Church , 1,780 00 

Parsonage and Grounds 3,500 00 

Lot in rear 2,000 00 

14 ground rent — 

Deeds from T. Dugdale 13,570 Oa 

Other property on Broad street and Pearl street 

and the Creek 13,000 00 

Total assets $82,070 Oa 

LIABILITIES. 

Advances of former Treasurer |2,968 92 

Loan from Board of Island Mana- 
gers for Church building 10,100 00 

Other loans for same object 5,559 25 

Unpaid bills and tax 621 51 

Unpaid interest..... 100 00 

Unpaid salaries 225 00 

Total Liabilities ^ 19,574 68 

Excess of Assets over Liabilities §62,495 32 

^'It will be seen of course from these, that the creditors of the 
Church are amply and thoroughly secured ; and the Vestry have 
no doubt that they would be entirely satisfied, if the congrega- 
tion will provide, as they should, for the prompt and regular 
payment of the interest as it accrues. It is to this matter that 
they especially call their attention. At the same time, they feel 
bound to say to the congregation, that in their judgment it 
would be right and proper to take any means, which would not 
sacrifice the property of the Church, to lessen the indebtedness. 
And further, that in their judgment, the standing of the Parish 
would be materially improved, if an earnest effort w^ere made by 
gifts and subscriptions, to clear off, entirely, the debt. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



581 



'^"We ask the attention of the congregation now, to a simple 
coiuparsion of the revenue and current expenses of the Church. 

EEYEXUE. 

Pew rents $1,669 88 

Income from 4 rented houses 210 00 

Other receipts (wharf and burial ground) ab't.... 100 00 

$1,979 88 

EXPENSES. 

Interest to Island Managers $606 00 

Other interest 311 00 

Salaries 850 00 

•Coal and gas 200 00 

Incidentals 200 00 

$2,167 00 

Excess of expenses over revenue, $187.12. 
It will be seen at once, that this state of things simply 
involves a constantly increasing debt; and places the Parish, 
before the eyes of men, as either insolvent or dishonest. The 
Vestry are convinced that the congregation will not allow such 
an imputation to rest upon a portion of Christ's Church ; and 
will not leave their representatives, especially the Wardens and 
Treasurer, in a position so painful and embarrassing. 

"And the Yestry are equally convinced, that the congregation 
will see that the deficiency can only be met, by an increase of 
revenue. The expenses cannot be reduced. The Vestry are 
assured of this, after a careful examination of the wdiole case; 
and are sure that the congregation w^ill see it. The chief item 
is the payment of interest, which can only be avoided, by the 
liquidation of the debt recommended above. The salaries are 
altogether unworthy of the congregation. And the other items 
of expense are unimportant. It must also be borne in mind, 
that in the item of incidental expenses, repairs are included, 
many of which are much needed now ; and which will increase 
in amount and necessity every year. 

" Simply, therefore, with a view of putting ourselves in a posi- 
tion to meet our yearly expenses, the Vestry appointed a Com- 
mittee to propose such a re-assessment of the pews, as would 



582 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 

make the revenue equal to the current expenses of the Parish ;; 
and that committee have reported as follows : 

" ^ The committee appointed to revise the pew-rental of St. 
Mary^s Church, recommend to the Vestry for tlieir adoption,, 
the following changes in the assessment of the pews, viz. : 

PEW. PRESENT RENTAL. PROPOSED RENTAL. EXCESS. 

No. 20..... J40 00 $50 00 $10 00 

21 40 00 50 00 10 00 

22 40 00 45 00 5 00 

23...... 40 00 45 00 5 00 

24.... 35 00 45 00 10 00 

25 30 00.... 40 00 10 00 

26.......... ... 30 00 40 00 10 00 

27.......... ... 30 00 40 00 10 00 

28 50 00 75 00 25 00 

29............. 50 00..... 75 00 25 00 

30 30 00 40 00 10 00 

62 25 00...... 35 00 10 00 

63 25 00 35 00 10 00 

64 22 00.. 30 00 8 00 

65 25 00 35 00 10 00 

67 50 00 75 00 25 00- 

68 30 00 40 00.... 10 00 

69 30 00 40 00 10 00 

70 30 00 40 00 10 00 

71 40 00 50 00 10 00 

72 50 00. 60 00 10 00 

73 50 00 60 00 10 00' 

74 50 00 60 00 , 10 00' 

75 50 00 60 00 10 00' 

76 50 00 60 00 10 00 

77 50 00 60 00 10 00 

78 50 00 60 00 10 00 

'Additional revenue thus gained $303 00' 

The Vestry accepted and adopted this report; and as six 
months' notice is required to be given, before any change of 
assessment can be made obligatory, the following resolution, 
was unanimously passed : 



IN BUELINGTON. 



583 



" ^Resolved, That the Wardens be authorized to state to the 
pewholders, that on and after the first of October next^ the pews 
will only be rented at the advanced rate ; and also to request 
those who are willing, to begin the payment of this advauced 
rate, on the first of April/ 

" The Vestry are of opinion that this assessment of the pews 
is by no means too high ; and that the proportion of the rates 
is much more fair than before. They have no desire to do any 
thing, but to enable the Parish to pay their honest debts. They 
avail themselves of the only means to increase the revenue; and 
they distribute the additional payments so that they fall heavily 
upon no one. 

" The Vestry desire also, to remind the worshippers in St. 
Mary's Church, that while free sittings are cheerfully accorded 
to any persons in the unrented pews, so that all who will, are 
welcome to the privileges of the House of God ; still, as the 
Parish relies almost entirely for its support, upon the pew rents^ 
it is desirable that all regular worshippers who can, should con- 
tribute towards the maintenance of the services, according to 
their ability, by renting seats. 

^' The Vestry think it right, further to say to the congrega- 
tion, that they have in hand the preparation of a map, which 
w^ill show accurately the situation of the property still in pos- 
session of the Parish ; and also what portions of it have been 
disposed of ; with the amounts received for it ; and further 
showing the property held by ground-rent deeds, with state- 
ments of interest received and due upon them. This, as soon as 
prepared, they propose to submit to the congregation, 

" In devising some means of reducing, if possible, the liabili- 
ties of the Parish, the Vestry having laid out burial lots in the 
rear of the new Church, f have now prepared by-laws in regard 
to them, and a form of certificate conveying them to purchasers. 
The Wardens are prepared to sell these lots, and to give any 
desired information in regard to them : and the Vestry earnestly 
call the attention of the congregation to this method of liquidat- 
ing the debt of the Church ; while they secure a sacred and safe 

t "The new part of the burying ground, is an intrusion on the lands left by 
the Kev. John Talbot for the use of the Kectors of St. Mary's Church. 
Wm. Allen Johnson, Eector, December 10th, 1868." — MS. Alemomndum in 
Parish Archives. 



584 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



burial place. All the proceeds of such sales will be appropriated 
to lessening the amount of the Church's indebtedness. 

" One thing only remains^ which the Vestry feel it their duty 
to lay before the congregation. 

"Among the liabilities included in the above estimates, are 
four items of amounts which should have been paid last quarter. 
They amount to $325; and include, 

A balance of interest to Island Managers, due Sep- 
tember 25th, 1860 8100 00 

One quarter's salary due the Rector, January 18th, 

1861 125 00 

Taxes 50 00 

Coal 50 00 

§325 00 

"The Vestry are very anxious that the burden of this should 
not lie upon the incoming pew-rents; but that they may be left 
clear to meet the expenses due on the 1st of April, and until 
October 1st. They have therefore by resolution, requested the 
Rector to make a special Offertory for this purpose, and give 
due notice of it to the people. The Rector having assented to 
this, and intending to devote to this object the Offertory on 
Easter Sunday, March 31st, the Vestry urge upon the congrega- 
tion that they should come forward and meet the call presented 
to them. 

"Asking for this statement your careful and candid consider- 
ation, and begging, upon all we think or do, the blessing of 
Almighty God, we remain your faithful friends and servants 
for Christ's sake ; 

"Wm. Ceoswell Doaxe, 

''Rector of St. Ilary's Church. 

" ^yM. A. ROGEES, 1 rn i tt^ 7 

y Church Wardens. 

"Edwaed B. Geubb, Treasurer. 

"Samuel Rogees, ^ 

" Elias Howell, | 

" Wm. J. Watsox, } Vestrymen. 

"H. McDowell, | 

"C. S. GUAXTT, J 

"Burlington, X. J., March 19th, 1861." 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



585 



THE GRAVE OF BISHOP DOAXE. 

The place of Bishop Doane's interment, in St. Mary's Church- 
yard — not far from the northeast corner of the new Church — 
is marked with a coped-tomb, of brown free stone, of admirable 
design and workmanship. The mitre, the pastoral staff and 
keys, and the crown of thorns, are chief among its sculptured 
symbols ; while, beginning at the head, and running around 
the plinth of the upper base is this inscription : "f" Jesu 
Meecy. George Washington Doaxe, D. D., LL. D., for 
XXYII YEARS Bishop of Xew Jersey: borx, May 27, 
A. D. MDCCXCIX; FELL ASLEEP, April 27, A. D. 
MDCCCLIX: IX PACE. 

I hare waited for^ Thy salvation, Ijorcir 
On the end — at the foot of the monument — are these words: 
■fa Ix". Memoria:\i. 
EPiscopi. Xeo-C.esariexsis. 
HCJUS. ECCLESI^E. Sax'ctje. Mari-e. 
CoxDiTOEis. Et. Rectoris. Collegii. Burlixgtoxiexsis. 

Atque. 

Ael.e. Sax'ct.e. Marine. Fuxdatoris. 
Pastoris. MEFAAHTOPOI. 

a memorial wixdow to bishop doaxe. 
" The Vestry, some months ago, consented to a request, from 
the Parishioners, to take out the old east window of the Church, 
and put in its place a memorial, to their late Rector, the Rt. 
Rev. Bishop Doane. 

The window was in its place on Maundy Thursday ; but 
w^as hidden from view by a heavy purple veil, which draped 
the chancel, all Good Friday and Easter Ev^en. On Easter 
morning, the veil was taken away ; and the glad sunlight lit 
up, with all the Resurrection brightness, the exquisite memorial. 

The window consists of three lancets ; the central one being 
the highest. The ground-work of all the lancets is a deep blue 
quarry, with a rich ruby border, and a gold flower in the points. 
An unusual depth and richness is given to the quarry work, by 



586 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



a diapering, which defines the ruby into a cross, behind the blue,, 
by a slight black line. 

" The central figure, in the middle lancet, is ^ the Good Shep- 
herd ' in a vesica pisois. The dignity and repose of the figure 
are very commanding ; and the drapery, in parts very brilliant, 
is full of grace. Above and below this are two oblong cusped 
compartments ; the upper one containing a most effective group, 
of the Saviour giving the pastoral commission to St. Peter, who 
kneels before Plim ; and the lower containing a representation 
of St. Peter's deliverance by the Angel from the prison. The 
cold prison floor, and the blue sky through the barred window ; 
the broken manacles, and the pose of the Angel, make a most 
effective combination. x4.bove, in the head of the central lancet, 
is a Dove ; and, underneath all, the Bishop's coat-of-arms in a 
quatrefoil. 

" The side lancets are simple and plain, mainly used to bring 
out the effect of the central window. The ground-work is the 
same; with a vesica and two medallions in each. On the 
north, are the Pastoral Staff and Keys cross-wise ; with the seal 
of Burlington College below, and a passion cross, entwined with 
passion flowers, above : on the south, the mitre ; with the seal 
of St. Mary's Hall below : and, above, a crown of glory in a 
wreath of ivy leaves. The distinctness of effect, even in the 
figures on the seals is very striking; and the atmospheric blue, 
in the vesicas and medal Hons, makes a beautiful contrast with 
the deep blue of the quarries. Along the foot of the window, 
in small, golden, Gothic letters, runs the inscription : 

^''^ Georgia W. Doane, Neo Coes Episc. EccL hujusee per annos 
xxvi Rectori, amantissimo ac Jidelissimo Pasiori, qui diem supre- 
mum obiit An. Sacr, mdccclix, mense Aprili, die xxvii; et 
sepultus est post hoc temphm, quod pie sancteque vivus frequenta- 
verat, fenestram hancce picturatamj diuturni sui amoris monimen- 
tum, parochiales ex animo dolentes ponendam curaverunt.' f 

t " To George W. Doane, Bishop of New Jersey, for twenty-six years 
Kector of this Parish ; a most loving and faithful Pastor : who died on the 
27th day of April, A. d. 1859 ; and is buried behind this Church, in which, 
during his lifetime, devoutly and reverently he constantly worshipped ; his 
parishioners, mourning, from their hearts, his loss, have caused this window 
to be erected, as a memorial of their lasting love." 



IX BURLINGTON. 587 

" The window is all Jersey work, and Church work ; and 
reflects great credit upon the artist, Mr. Owen Doremus, of West 
Bloomfield. He has thrown, into this work, his art, not only, 
but his heart. 

" The teaching of the window is plain and true ; figuring the 
pastoral character of the ^ great-hearted shepherd ; ' in which, 
of course, he was best known and most dearly loved by his 
parishioners ; and which indeed was the great element of his 
Episcopate. The Chief Shepherd in the central vesica, as the 
Source of all authority, conveys the commission to feed His 
lambs, (in the upper compartment), to the Apostolic Ministry, 
in the person of St. Peter ; and he, for the faithfulness of that 
feeding, is imprisoned ; but, (in the lower compartment), from 
all the trials and persecutions of his enemies, and finally, from- 
the last suiferino; of all, the Anwl of the Lord delivers him.'' — ■ 
Burlington Newspaper; April, 1861. 

THE REPOET OF ST. MARY's AS THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH. 
[May 15th, 1861.] 
St. Ilary's Church. 
The Rt. Rev. W. H. Odenheimer, D. D., Bishop. 
The Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, B. I)., Bishop's Chaplain,, 

Rector. 

The Rev. David C. Moore, Rector's Assistant. 
The Rev. Elvin K. Smith, Principal of St. Mary's Hall, Chap- 
lain of Holy Innocents' Chapel. 
The Rev. J. Breckenridge Gibson, Rector of Burlington College,- 

Chaplain of the Holy Child Jesus Chapel. 
The Rev. M. F. Hyde, Professor of Ancient Languages in Bur-- 
lington College, Missionary to Christ Church, Riverton. 
Levi Johnston, C. P. Jones, Lay Readers. 
The Rector reports, since St. Luke's Day, October 18, when 
he assumed the rectorship: — Baptisms, adults, 7; infants, 12; 
(before October 18, infants, 13;) total, 32; confirmed, 20; 
(before October 18, 1 ;) 21 ; marriages, 5 ; burials," 21 ; com- 
municants, added, 10 ; removed into the Parish, 2 ; removed 
from the Parish, 4; died, 2; present number, 120; the Holy 
Communion celebrated every Lord's Day and Holy Day, and 
in the Octaves; Parochial School, 1 ; St. Mary's Academy, 21 
boys; catechists, 18 ; catechumens, 100 ; Parish Library, 250 
volumes ; Sunday School Library, 300 volumes. 



588 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Offerings: Missions; Diocesan, $49.39 ; Domestic, $82.74; 
Foreign, $27.38; Parochial, $96.49; Parochial Charities, 
$147.49 ; Kansas, $41.87; Aged and Infirm Clergy, $9.96; 
other Parochial purposes, $155.14; Convention Expenses, 
$10.50; Bisliop's Salary, $87; total, $707.96 ; before October 
18, total, $110.37. Total for the year, $818.33. 

St. Barnabas^ Free Ilission Chapel. 

Families, 72 ; Individuals, 320 ; baptisms, adults, 3 ; infants, 
36; total, 39; confirmed, 11; marriages, 5; burials, 12; com- 
municants, died and removed, 3 ; present number, 100. The 
Holy Communion every Lord's Day and Holy Day ; daily Par- 
ish Schools, partly paid ; teachers, Cornelia Vansciver, Lavinia 
Forgus, Ellen Hulme; scholars, boys, 35 ; girls, 40 ; total, 75 ; 
cateehists, 6; catechumens, taught openly in the Church three 
times weekly, 95 ; Sunday School Library, 300 volumes ; cele- 
bration of Divine service, Sundays, four times, with three ser- 
mons and one catechizing; Holy Days, the Holy Communion, 
with a sermon; Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, with ser- 
mons on Wednesday and Friday, in Advent and Lent ; total 900. 

Offerings: Parochial Schools, $200; the Poor, $159.66 ; 
Parish purposes, $319.79 ; Kansas, $4.75 ; other purposes, $45 ; 
total, $729.20. 

Chaj)el of the Holy Innocents. 

Baptisms, adults, 11 ; infant, 1 ; total, 12; confirmed, 40 ; 
average communicants, 70. 

" Offerings : For Church Missionary Work and Charitable 
purposes, $215. 

Chapel of the Holy Child Jesus. 
Individuals, 32; communicants, 11. 

Total in the Parish. 

" Baptisms, 83 ; confirmed, 71 ; communicants, 301. Offer- 
ings, $1,762.53. 

The Rector's report for this year, of St. Mary's Parish, is 
necessarily imperfect. The work so far has been prospective, 
and is full of promise ; larger congregations ; increased attend- 
ance at special services ; and somewhat enlarged alms, give 
■hopes, if not assurances, of growth. 

"St. Mary's Academy for boys is in successful operation, 
with 21 scholars; who receive a thorough English and Classi- 



IX BURLINGTQX. 



589 



cal education, with proper and careful religious training, and 
attend the daily morning service of the Church. The Kector is 
Eector of the Academy, and his Assistant the Master; the 
Bishop being Visitor. 

In St. Barnabas' Mission, with much anxiety, there is abun- 
dant hope. The field is large and promising, though the sowers' 
hands are often tied, with the pressure of work and the want of 
means. The full services are continued, and the schools are in 
admirable condition. The changes consequent upon the accept- 
ance of the Rectorship of the Parish, by the Priest of the Mis- 
sion, have somewhat lessened this year's actual statistics. But 
the relation here remains unchanged. And now, with the paro- 
chial system for the whole city more completely arranged, there 
is larger room, and a better opportunity for more abundant and 
successful labours. Here, as to some extent in the Parish 
Church, the Rev. Assistant does much and valuable work in 
addition to his academic duties. 

"The Rector adds, as an important event, the Act, which 
makes St. Mary's the Cathedral Church of the Diocese. It is 
such by nature and necessity, and has been always, in all but 
the name. He hopes by another year to report that the system 
as adapted to the American Church, is fairly carried out. 

"'An Act authorizing the Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church withini 
the State, to register certain acts on the register of Saint Mary's Parish, in 
the city of Burlington. 

" ' 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New 
Jersey, That hereafter all baptisms and marriages, or any other, official or 
ministerial acts, which have been or may be solemnized by the Bishop of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church within this State, having the city of Burlington 
under his jurisdiction, may be entered by him on the register of Saint Mary's 
Parish, Burlington ; and the same, when entered on the said register, shall 
have the like legal effect and operation, as if the said marriage or baptism 
had been solemnized by the clergyman having charge of the said Church, and 
been by him entered on the register thereof; and the said Church may also 
be the place of deposit for any papers and documents connected with his office.. 

" '2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect immediately.' " 

"St. Mary's Parsonage, Burlington, 

"May 28th, A. d. 1861. 
" Right Reverend Father ix God : 

"I beg leave res^Dectfully to report that, since my admission 
into your Diocese on the Feast of All Saints, a. d. 1860, 1 have- 
been officiating as Rector's Assistant in the Parish of St. Mary,, 



590 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Burlington, and acting as Master of St. Mary's Academy for 
Boys. 

'^In my last named duties I have received large and valuable 
aid from the Rector, and have had pleasantly associated with 
me, (until the last fortnight,) as Tutor, Mr. Custis P. Jones, 
B. A., of Burlington College, for whose loss I desire to record 
my regret. 

In the Parochial work, I have taken such a share as has 
been appointed me by the Rector, and all special ministerial 
acts performed by me are included in his Parochial report. 

Outside St. Mary's Parish, but within your Diocese, I have 
assisted once in the administration of the Holy Communion, 
said Morning or Evening Prayer three times, and preached 
twice. 

" In other Dioceses I have assisted at the ordination of one 
Priest; said Morning or Evening Prayer three times; preached 
twice, and catechised publicly once. 
I have the honor to be. 

Right Reverend Eather, 

''Your dutiful son in the Church, 

"David C. Mooee. 
'' To the Right Beveread, the Bishop of New Jersey , &c., c(*e. 

'' Rt. Reyeee^'d Fathee : 

"The duties which are assigned to ' the Principal, Chaplain, 
and Head of the Family,' at St. Mary's Hall, have been con- 
stantly performed by me during the past year. 

" I have also celebrated Divine service, and preached several 
Sunday mornings, at St. Stephen's Church, Florence, by your 
direction ; and taken part, regularly, in the Sunday services in 
St. Mary's Church, Burlington. During the school vacation. 
Spring and Fall, I have officiated in various places. I have 
baptized one infant, and once performed the marriage service, 
and that for the burial of the dead once ; I have been the In- 
structor in Dogmatic Theology, at Burlington College. 

" Elyix K. Smith. 

"Burlington, X. J., May 27, 1861." 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



591 



Et. Eeyerexd Father : 

" I herewith send you my first report as a Presbyter of the 
Diocese of Xew Jersey. 

^' I entered on my duties as Eector of Burlington College, 
October, A. d. 1860. Since that time I have been engaged, 
constantly, in the Pastoral and Academic work in that Institu- 
tion. There are under my Pastoral care thirty-two souls. 
Eleven members of the family are communicants. 

I have also fulfilled the duties of Instructor in Ecclesiastical 
History in the Theological department of the College. 

I have preached about twenty-five sermons ; besides Lec- 
tures and Addresses delivered in the College Chapel; and have 
assisted on almost every Sunday, and on the greater Festivals, 
in the services of St. Mary's Church, Burlington. 

^" J. Beeckexridge Gibsox. 

Burlington, 1861." 

A PEW AND A LOT FOR BISHOP ODEXHEIMER. 

At a meeting of the Yestry of St. Mary's Church, held De- 
cember 9th, 1861, the following were adopted : 

" Whereas, The Yestry of this Church has set apart a pew 
for the Bishop and his family in St. Mary's Church, 

Resolved, That a lot, or piece of ground, be also set apart for 
the Et. Eev. Dr. Odeuheimer and family, in the ground between 
the new and old Church ; and that the Wardens be hereby 
requested to call upon and meet the Bishop to designate the 
place for this purpose, and report the same to the next meetino; 
of the Yestry." 

TRGEXT COMMrXICATIOX FROM THE RECTOR. 

At a special meeting of the Yestry of St. Mary's Church, 
held March 27th, 1862, called by order of the Eector, the Eector 
retiring from the meeting, F. Gauntt, M. D., presented the fol- 
lowing communication from the Eector of the Parish : 

The Eector is compelled by circumstances that will admit 
of no delay, to ask the serious and immediate attention of the 
Yestry of St. Mary's Parish to this communication. 



592 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 

On the 18th of October, A. D. 1860, I entered on my duties 
as Rector. The experience of about eighteen months convinces 
me of the necessity of some change from the present condition 
of things. 

In the first place, I find myself unable, without serious 
injury to my health, to continue the amount of work which I 
have undertaken. 

In the second place, I am not at all satisfied with the work- 
ing of the Parish, much of whose pressing work is neglected 
and omitted, for want of time and strength. 

If the only C|uestion in the matter were my health ; if the 
only conviction of the eighteen months' work were the convic- 
tion, that my health was unequal to the work f if this- were all, 
I should simply say so to the Yestry ; and a&k the acceptance 
of my resignation at their hands. And of course I beg the 
Yestry to be sure, that I am at once ready to withdraw in 
favour of any one who can carry on the Parish to their satisfac- 
tion, either from possessing more strength, or from doing less 
work. 

But this is not all ; I am able, thank God, to work hard, 
and to bear much. And as I look out upon my work here, I 
feel that its pressure upon me, has not been that of physical 
labour, but of anxious care. The work cannot be lessened. 

Yirtually there i& but one Parish in this city, and it must 
be that St. Mary^s Parish is responsible for the care of all the 
Churches children in the city; and for all the Missionary exten- 
sion of the Church. That this work might be done, of course 
an Assistant must be had. The Parish thought itself unable to 
supply me one. I opened St. Mary^s Academy with a view of 
supporting an Assistant, independently of the Parish. It has 
l:>een partiallv successful. I have been able tO' secure assistance • 
but I have had to add to my own duties the confinement of teach- 
ing in the school ; and have had but very slight and imperfect 
help, because the chief time of the Assistant is taken up in the 
school. I confess myself unable to carry on the work; and 
therefore unwilling to bear the reponsibility of this Parish, 
single handed. And my duty to^ the souls of my care, no less 



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than to myself, will compel me if I cannot be relieved, to with- 
draw from a position, where I am breaking dow^n my health, in 
the vain effort to accomplish an impossibility. 

"But this, as I have said, is not all. It is a strain of no 
slight pressure to attend to the four Sunday services and the 
Sunday School ; the week day services with such additions as 
Advent and Lent demand ; to teach three hours daily ; and to 
care besides this for the sick and the poor, the day schools, the 
candidates for the Sacraments and for Confirmation. This 
makes a heavy strain. But it is far harder to see work undone 
that ought not to wait ; to feel that little permanent hold is 
gained from day to day, for what has been done ; and to be 
annoyed and anxious all the tioie, for means to carry on, or to 
originate measures absolutely essential to the vv^elfare of the 
Parish. 

"I am extremely anxious that the Vestry should take in the 
full measure of their opportunities for good, and so of their 
responsibilities. They are the guardians in temporal matters 
of a great and enduring work. I thank God for the unanimous 
and cordial support which they have never failed to give me 
personally. But we must consider together, how we may meet 
the necessities which press upon us, and make permanent the 
work already begun. Merely to keep the Church full on Sun- 
day of regular worshippers, who pay their pew rents, is not the 
limit of our duty. We are bound as the mother Church of the 
city, to provide and support two schools for the children and to 
extend to the poor, and those yet unconverted, the privileges of 
worship and instruction and care. The Mission of St. Barnabas 
is doing this. It needs sympathy and support. And until such 
interest and such efforts are put forth as will continue and enlarge 
our work, w^e fall short of our duty. I urgently and earnestly 
press this matter upon the Vestry. I do not ask them to support 
St. Barnabas' Mission. It was founded and built and carried on 
for some years without this. But now the work is one, under one 
spiritual direction, and one in temporal responsibility. And I ask 
the Vestry as essential to the discharge of our duty and as neces- 
sary to the relief of my health, to consider and act upon some 

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HISTOEY OF THE CHUKCH 



method of giving me an Assistant for the Parish work; and to 
authorize and sustain me, in pressing upon the Parishioners their 
duty of supporting with more interest and sympathy and larger 
alms, the Christian work of the Parish. 

My own view of the method of doing this is two-fold. In 
the first place, I believe that vigorous steps should be taken, at 
once, to ])ay off at least one-half of the principal of our debt, to 
the Board of Island Managers. This will add §300 a year to 
our income- for Parish purposes. And in the next place, I 
think that pledges for an addition of at least as much, if not 
more than this sum, should be obtained from members of the 
congregiition. I have of course, no desire to dictate any method 
of action to the Yestry. I believe both these suggestions to be 
practicable and therefore I propose them. Nor do I wish in 
any way, to urge myself, or my own views upon the Yestry, 
against their judgment. I simply ask their honest and earnest 
consideration of the statement which I have made : that I am 
not able, either conscientiously or physically to administer the 
Parish alone ; that I believe the necessary work of the Parish, 
requires the undivided labour of at least two clergymen ; and 
that I cannot but think that the congregation are able and 
would be willing to assume the expense necessary to such addi- 
tional work. 

" My hope is that the Yestry will recognize in this, the fact 
that the parochial work of St. Mary's Parish covers the mis- 
sionary work of St. Barnabas' Chapel ; and will realize the 
need of more clerical assistance ; and will act upon these two 
facts by the appointment of a Committee, (of which I will will- 
ingly be one and which I will cordially aid,) to secure from the 
congregation, in whatever way may be practicable, the means 
required for the support of our Church work in Burlington. 

" ATm. Choswell Doane, Rector, 
March 21st, A. D. 1862. 

The Chair appointed the Wardens, the Treasurer, and 
Messrs. C. S. Gauntt and W. C. Myers, a committee to act upon 
the communication." 



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595 



ACKXO^VLEDGMEXT OF THE LOT. 

At a meeting of the Yestry of St. Mary's Church, held April 
28th, 1862^ the Secretary presented this communication from 
the Bishop : 

Burlington, N. J., April 9th, 1862. 

" My Deae Sie : 

I have received your letter of the 8th inst., communicating 
to me the very gratifying and generous resolution of the Rector, 
Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Mary's Parish, Burlington, ap- 
propriating to me and my family a plot of ground opposite to 
the Chancel of the new St. Mary's Church. 

" I beg leave through you, as Secretary of the Vestry, to ex- 
press my profound and gratified acknowledgment of this con- 
siderate act of kindness on the part of the corporation of St' 
Mary's Parish ; and as well for my family as myself to return 
my sincere thanks. 

" With the humble prayer that every blessing may attend 
upon the faithful labour of your beloved Rector and his Vestry, 
I remain, very faithfully yours, 

"W. H. Odenheimee. 

" :Mr. Geo. H. Woolman, 6'ec',^." 

EEPOET OF THE EEY. DAVID C. MOOEE. 

''RiOHT Reyeeexd Fathee IX God. 

" I beg leave, very respectfully, to present to you the report 
of duties done by me since May 29th, a. d. 1861. 

I took such share in the Parochial and Scholastic work of 
St. Mary's Parish, Burlington, as was allotted to me by the 
Rector, until after the Feast of St. Andrew, when I most re- 
gretfully ceased to be Mr. Doane's assistant in St. Mary's 
Church, St. Barnabas' Chapel, and St. Mary's Academy for boys. 

From July 7th to the before-mentioned date, I also, at your 
desire, took charge of the vacant Parish of Trinity, Fairview, 
as Missionary. 

During the months of June, July, August, September, Oc- 



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tober aud November, I baptized two adults and three infants^ 
one of the latter being colored. I presented to you two persons 
for Confirmation, (belonging to the then vacant Parish of St. 
Peter's, Rancocas,) and I said the office for the Burial of the 
Dead seven times. All these are recorded in the register of St. 
Mary's Parish, Burlington. Besides these regular duties, I have 
also at other places within your Diocese, administered the Holy 
Eucharist six times, said the whole or part of morning or eve- 
ning prayer thirty-two times, and preached sixteen times. While 
beyond the limits of your Diocese, I have said morning and 
evening prayer four times, and have preached three times. These 
irregular and gratuitous duties extended to the 18th day of Feb- 
ruary, A. D. 1862, when I left the Diocese of New Jersey, with 
feelings of attachment which can never die while I myself re- 
tain life ; and at the same time (permit me to add) I also left 
the fatherly jurisdiction of one of the most kind and considerate 
Prelates, to whom it was ever the lot of a clergyman to owe 
allegiance. 

"With every sincere sentiment of respect and honor for you 
in your high and holy office, and of love and gratitude to you 
personally, 

" 1 have the honor to be, 

" Right Reverend Father, 

Your obedient son in Christ's Church, 
"David C. Moore, 
" Missionary to Sherbroke^ (icest) County of Lunenberg, Diocesr^ 
oj- Nova Scotia. 
"April, A. D. 1862." 

A BELL FOR ST. BARXABAS' CHAPEL. 

"The Rector gratefully acknowledges the beautiful Christ- 
mas tokens of love from the S. S. Teachers and children of the 
Mission and the Parish, and from the people of the Mission ; 
and the Easter gift of two surplices from two parishioners ; 
while our hearts are daily gladdened by the generous gift to St. 
Barnabas' Chapel of a noble bell, with a bell-turret, a thank- 



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offering for preservation from great danger, bearing this inscrip- 
tion : ^ Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his ben- 
efits, who saveth thy life from destruction.' St. Barnabas' Free 
Mission Chapel, Christmas, A. D. 1861. worship the Lord 
in the beauty of holiness.' 

" The bell weighs over 300 pounds, and its admirable tone is 
worthy of its well known founders, Messrs. Jones & Co., of 
Troy, New York J '—Parochial Report, May, 1862. 

THE DIOCESAN IXSTITUTIOXS. 

At the Convention of the Diocese held in Grace Church, 
Newark, May 28th and 29th, 1862, the following was accepted : 

" The Committee on the Diocesan Institutions of St. Mary's 
Hall and Burlington College, appointed at the last meeting of 
the Diocesan Convention, are happy to be able to testify to the 
continued prosperity, and to the faithful and successful admin- 
istration of the schools. Gathering within their walls almost 
two hundred children every year, they train them in the nur- 
ture and admonition of the Lord. The fullest mental training 
fits the inmates of the Institutions for their duties, whatever 
they may be, in the world ; as clergymen or laymen, men of 
business, of literature or in the professions ; or as Christian 
women of cultivation, accomplishment and refinement. 

" Better than all, the very atmosphere, the indirect influences, 
the services, the teachings, the examples of these Christian 
homes, do really educate, develope, draw out, lead up the higher 
and holier part of man — his spiritual and immortal nature. The 
well-tried confidence of American Churchmen in these noble 
nurseries of the Church, is not misplaced. 

But your committee notice the want of patronage and inter- 
est given to these schools from this Diocese. Under the imme- 
diate and constant supervision of the Bishop ; reflecting its 
highest honor upon the Church in New Jersey ; yet the propor- 
tion of pupils from our own State is not large ; and prosperous 
as the schools are, they have need of large patronage to enable 
them fairly to discharge their great responsibilities and their 
opportunities for good. To remedy this, your Committee would 



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only recommend to the New Jersey Churchmen, the thought 
that these Institutions are part of the Church's working in the 
State; that the Bishop's close relations to them bring them 
home to every heart ; that the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese 
are largely and honorably represented in the Board of Trustees ; 
and that nothing has done more than they to give our Diocese 
its high and honorable position in the American Church. 
Surely the Churchmen of New Jersey will be proud to do all in 
their power by patronage and influence, to carry this great work 
of Christian education to a further advance of usefulness, suc- 
cess and honor. 

" Your Committee, therefore, recommend the Institutions to 
the confidence of the members of the Convention of New Jersey, 
and propose the following resolutions : 

Resolved, That as Churchmen of New Jersey, we are proud 
of the advanced position, in our Diocese, of the great work of 
Christian education. 

''Hesolved, That w^ith this expression of confidence in St. 
Mary's Hall and Burlington College, we will give cheerfully to 
their maintenance and support, our influence and our prayers. 

"Resolved, That feeling as we do the sore need, and seeing as 
we do the great results of thorough Christian training, we recom- 
mend strongly the establishment of Parochial Schools wherever 
it may be possible throughout the Diocese to be the feeders of 
our Diocesan Schools, and so to raise up men and women who 
may be the nursing fathers and the nursing mothers of the 
Church, not in our Diocese only, but in the world. 

" William Crosavell Doane, ""I 

James S. Bush, > Committee. 

" Geoege p. Schetky, J 

THE rector's salary INCREASED. 

At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary's Church, held July 
18th, 1862, it was, 

"Resolved, That the Rector's salary from July 18th, 1862, be 
fixed at §900 ; and the Committee will make an efibrt to obtain 
a sufficient amount by subscriptions to make it §1000, without 
delay, in order that the Rector may be able to procure clerical 
assistance in his work.'^ 



IX BURLIXGTON. 



599 



THE DEATH OF WILLIAM A. ROGEES. 

'^At a special meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary^s Churchy 
held Xovember 30th^ 1862, the Rector stated that the meeting 
was called to take such action in regard to the death of oar late 
Senior Warden, AYilliam A. Rogers, as his constant and anxious 
care for the welfare of this Parish demands of the Vestry. 

" The Rector, Wardens, and Vestrymen of St. Mary^s Parish, 
Burlino;ton, having; learned that God has taken oat of this worid 
the soul of their deceased brother, William A. Rogers, for twelve 
years a Vestryman and for sev^en years a Warden of the Church, 
have ordered this minute to be entered in the Vestry Book, and 
a copy sent to the family of Mr. Rogers, and printed in the 
Church Journal and the Nev- Jersey Dollar Neiospaper : 

" Jlinute. 

The undersigned, having recently by resolution expressed 
their deep sense of Mr. Rogers^ most valuable services to the 
Parish, during his many years of official connection Avith it, and 
also of the great worth of his Christian example, simply desire 
here to record their faithful reverence for his beloved memory , 
their cordial sympathy with the bereaved ones of his family ; 
and their full trust, that God, having accepted him in the 
Beloved, has taken his soul in the sweet resting-place of His 
Countenance. A noble and living monument, to the power of 
God's grace, working through his appointed means ; the char- 
acter of Mr. Rogers exemplified the evangelical purity of the 
Church's doctrines, the apostolic power of her system, the divine 
blessing upon a life of simple obedience to Her laws. And the 
undersigned, with most devout thankfulness, record here their 
sense of his religious example as witnessing to the great Cath- 
olic principles of frequent Eucharists and Daily Prayers, and to 
the powerful influence of a retiring, gentle, modest Christian life. 
The record of the departed brother, that he has left behind him, 
in the hearts of his fellow Parishioners, is the gracious descrip- 
tion of Nathaniel, 'an Israelite indeed in whom is no guile.' 
' Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord, for they rest from 
their labours and their works do follow them.' 



600 HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH 



" The Wardens and Vestrymen decide to attend his funeral 
in a body^ and to act as the pall bearers. 

Wm. Croswell Doane^ Rector. ■ 



J. W. Odexheimer, 
" F. Gauntt, M. D., 

"Wm. J. Watsox, 
"C. S. Gauntt, 
"Jas. a. Farnum, 
"E. B. Grubb, 
"W. C. Myers, 
'^E. Howell, J 

" Attest : George H. Woolmax, 

^'Secretary of the Vestry.^' 



Wardens. 



> Vestrymen. 



the REA^ MR. DOANE RESIGNS THE RECTORSHIP. 

Burlington, April 20, A. D. 1863. 

"To the Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Mary^s Parish, Burlington: 

"My very DEAR FRIENDS: 

" I have asked you to come together, this evening, in order 
that I may lay before you my resignation of the Rectorship of 
St. Mary's Parish. 

" You are aware, that for some time, now almost a year, I 
have felt most painfully, the difficulty of obtaining adequate 
support for the various departments of my Parochial work ; so 
much so, that I liave not withheld the expression of a fear, that, 
the step which I have now taken would become inevitable. My 
wishes in this matter have been very imperfectly met. I have 
only been able to obtain the partial assistance of a Deacon ; 
and that for a remuneration which, though almost equaling my 
own salary, has been barely sufficient for his most economical 
sustenance. Meanwhile, the drain has gone on undiminished 
from my own small means to sustain the schools and other 
necessary expenses of the work. Still I could not bring myself 
so far to take God's purposes into my own hands, as to abandon 
my post here. And though I felt that the work was suffering 
for care, which my constant occupations prevented me from 
giving, and the want of salary hindered me from supplying, I, 



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601 



still, went on. My heart, in all its human feelings, held me 
here. I knew the difficulties, under which the Vestry labored. 
I deeply felt the cordial and kindly affection of the parishioners. 
I dearly loved and delighted in, my duties. I hoped it would 
be God's will, so far to remove the difficulties, as to enable me 
to remain. But the opening of His providence, so far as I can 
read it, points another way. I have sent, to-day, after patient^ 
painful, and deliberate consideration, my acceptance of a unani- 
mous, unsought, and unexpected call to St. John's Parish, Hart- 
ford. And with such a sacrifice of feelings, as my previous life 
has never known, and my after life can never know, it has 
become my duty to ask your acceptance of this resignation (after 
the 1st of May) which must part me, in presence, only, not in 
heart, from the Church, the people, and the work, that, for 
thirty years, in sacred association and personal affection have 
grown closer and dearer to me, every day. 

" For ; the many shortcomings of my ministry among you, 
during the ten years of its continuance, I ask God's forgiveness 
and your own. For all your personal affection and kindness 
to me and mine, I pledge you the undying gratitude of most 
loving memories, and of continual prayers, that God will pour 
upon you all, my people and my friends, His most abundant 
blessing. Earnestly thankful for the success with which my 
Master has crowned our works, I, as earnestly and solemnly 
commit and commend to you for support and perpetuation, 
the means that have achieved it, under God ; means long estab- 
lished and in use here ; the full development of the order of 
the Church in daily Services, frequent Eucharists, and the 
Parochial Schools. And while I ask your following prayers, 
and your kind judgments upon this decision, and upon my 
future life ; I beg that no reference to my feelings may lead you 
to postpone, what is of great importance to the sacred interests, 
we hold in common, the prompt selection of my successor, whom, 
may God strengthen and bless. 

" With lasting and most grateful love, believe me ever. 
Your most faithful friend and Rector, 

" William Ceoswell Doane." 



602 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



MINUTE OF THE VESTRY ON ACCEPTING HIS KESIGNATIONe 

The Committee appointed by the Vestry of St. Mary's 
Parish, to present an expression of their feelings on the occa- 
sion of accepting the resignation of their beloved Rector, have 
prepared the following minute: 

The official ties which have united the Rector of this Parish 
and his congregation, have been made deeply interesting by the 
fact that nearly his entire life has been spent within the pre- 
cincts of the Parish. The personal friendship which has de- 
scended to him, with the venerated name he bears, has ripened 
into profound and most affectionate esteem, under the influence 
of his zealous official ministrations. 

Of these ministrations it is impossible to speak in terms 
adequate to our appreciation of them. As the Priest and Pastor 
of this congregation, his course, in public and private, in the 
Church and home, with the young and old, poor and rich, has 
been marked by untiring fidelity, conscientiousness and charity. 
His fervent devotion has maintained the character of our beau- 
tiful sanctuary as eminently a House of Prayer; and whilst 
fulfilling the provisions of the Church for the due celebration 
of the Holy Sacraments and other Rites, he has assiduously 
instructed us in the truth as it is in Jesus, with words of burn- 
ing zeal and eloquence. Not only in the public discharge of 
his ministry has he endeared himself to our hearts, but we can 
also bear testimony, from experience and observation, to his 
self-sacrificing pastoral labours in the more unobtrusive depart- 
ments of his sacred office. In the hour of sorrow and sickness, 
his loving words and prayers have consoled us ; and in our and 
our childrens' joys he has ever been a ready and welcome sharer. 
In his untiring catechetical instructions, as well in the Sunday 
and Parochial Schools as in the Church, he has practically man- 
ifested the love of Christ for the lambs of the flock. There 
has been no form of disease too frightful to deter him from the 
bedside of the sick. His judicious counsels have helped the 
w^eak hearted, and his generous alms have comforted the needy. 
In season and out of season, through cold and heat, by night 
and by day, his ghostly ministrations have been cheerfully and 
unselfishly given to our congregation, and to all who. asked 



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them. It is these and like services which have endeared him 
to all hearts, and compel us to record not only our unaffected 
sorrow at his loss as the Pastor of St. Mary^s Parish, but to 
add the expression of our belief that his removal will be re- 
garded as a loss by the community at large. 

" We bespeak for him, what w^e believe will most certainly 
be given — the love, confidence and esteem of the new portion 
of the one Fold, to which the great Shepherd of the sheep has 
called him. 

" In bidding farewell to our beloved friend and Pastor, we 
assure him of the grateful love and warmest wishes of all his 
congregation ; and we offer our prayers to our Father in Heaven, 
that He will for His only Son's sake ever have our Rector and 
his family in His holy keeping. 

'^J. W. Odenheimer, 
"Wm. J. Watson, 
^'C. Baquet.'' 

bishop odenheoier invited to the rectoeship. 
''The lit. Rev. Dr. W. JEL. Odenheimer, Bishop of Neio Jersey. 

"Dear Bishop — The undersigned, a committee appointed 
by the Vestry of St. Mary's Parish, Burlington, to transmit to 
you the accompanying Resolution, unanimously passed, beg 
leave, in discharging their duty, to express, on behalf of the 
Yestry, the earnest hope that you will accede to one or the 
other of the provisions of the resolution. 

"St. Mary's Church is and ought to be, your Cathedral 
Church, and we desire that it may enjoy the benefit of such 
supervision as you may deem consistent with your Episcopal 
office. 

" Burlington, April 20, 1863. 
" Resolved, That the Rectorship of St. Mary's Parish be ten- 
dered to the Bishop of this Diocese ; or, resolved, that he be 
requested to take charge of St. Mary's Parish. 

"Yours, most respectfully, 

"C. Baquet, 
"S. Rogers, 

"Wm. J. Y^ATSON." 



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BISHOP ODEXHEmER ACCEPTS THE CHARGE " OF THE 

PARISH. 

To Prof, a Baquet, LL.D., Mr. Wm. J. Watson, and Mr. 
Samuel Rogers, Committee of the Vestry of St. 3Iary^s Parish, 
Burlington. 

'^Gentlemex — I have received and considered your courte- 
ous communication^ together with the Resolution unanimously 
adopted by the A^estry of St. Mary's Parish. It is the second 
time since my official connection with this Diocese, that I have 
-been gratified by an invitation from the Yestry, to assume the 
Rectorship of their venerable Parish, f associated with the mem- 
ories of the honoured dead, and with tlie love and labours of 
the living. The office of Rector involves, in my judgment, 
•absorbing spiritual duties, constant personal presence, and the 
daily care of the sick and dying, as well as the regular and 
systematic instruction of all the flock. On conscientious grounds, 
therefore, I must now, as on a former occasion, decline the 
Rectorship. 

"I notice, however, the alternative to which you direct my 
attention in the resolution of the Yestry, and I am not insensi- 
ble to your willingness to shield me from any interference with 
my Episcopal duty to the Diocese ; accordingly, in this view of 
the case, I am ready to accede to the wish of your honourable 
body. 

I accept, (not the Rectorship, but) the ^charge' of St. Mary's 
Parish, as tendered in the resolution of the Yestry ; and I will 
retain the charge so long as it may be agreeable to the gentle- 
men themselves, and to all the parties concerned. 

"Praying the great Head of the Church -to guide you and 
your co-workers, in your aims to promote His glory and the 
interests of the Parish, 

" I remain, very faithfully, 

" Your friend and Bishop, 

'^W. H. Odexhed.ier, 

"Riverside, April 24, 1863." 



t See 1^. 566. 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



605 



EEV. EUGEXE A. HOFFMAX ELECTED RECTOR OF ST. MARY^S- 

PARISH. 

At a meeting of the Yestrj; held May 11th, 1863, the follow- 
ing communication was received : 

Barlingtou, N. J., May 8th, 1863. 
''To the Vestry of St. Jlanfs Parish: 

" Gextlemex — -It has been intimated to me, from several 
sources, that any suggestion from me as Bishop of the Diocese, 
and therefore interested in the welfare of all portions of the 
flock, which may aid you in filling the Rectorship of St. Mary's 
Parish, will meet with due consideration. 

^'Accordingly, I express, respectfully but decidedly, my entire 
confidence in the ability, piety, Churchmanship, and fitness, in 
all respects, of a Reverend gentleman whose name has been 
mentioned in connection with this most reponsible office. 

I refer to the RevVl Eugene A. Hoffman, of Elizabeth,. 
Xew Jersey. 

I commend him to you as one who, with God's blessing, 
will promote the truest welfare of the congregation, and har- 
monize important interests which are indirectly, as well as di- 
rectly, related to the Parish. 

"Affectionately your Bishop, 

"W. H. Odexheimer." 

On motion, 

Resolved, That the Vestry go into an election for Rector. 
Whereupon, the Rev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, was unani- 
mously elected Rector of St. Mary's Parish, f 

J Eugene Augustus HofFman, son of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, was born 
in the city of Xew York, March 21st, 1829 ; graduated at Kutgers College, 
Xew Brunswick, X. J., in June, 1847, and at Harvard College, Mass., in 
June 1848 ; also at the General Theological Seminary, X. Y., in June, 
1851 ; received the degree of M. A., from Rutgers College in 1850, and also 
from Harvard College in 1851 ; was ordered Deacon in Christ Church, Xew 
Brunswick, X. J., June 29th, 1851, by Bishop George W. Doane, and advanced 
to the Priesthood in St. John's Church, Elizabethtown, April 28th, 1853, by 
the same prelate. After a year and a half at Grace Mission Church, Eliza- 
bethport, he accepted in the spring of 1853, the Eectorship of the newly organ- 
ized Parish of Christ Church, Elizabethtown,. X. J., where he ministered for 
ten years, and until culled to the Eectorship of St.. ]\Iary's Parish, Burlington. 



606 



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LETTER TO THE EEV. E. A. HOFEMAX. 

'To the Eev. Eugene A. Hoffman^ Rector of Christ Church, 
Elizabeth, JS. J. 

'^Reveeexd axd Dear Sir — The undersigned, a committee 
-of the Testiy of St. Mary's Parish, Burlington, discharge, with 
very sincere satisfaction, the duty assigned them of transmitting 
to you the following call to the Rectorship, which was made 
with great unanimity at the last meeting of the corporation : 

^^The committee beg leave, in behalf of the Yestry, to express 
the earnest hope that your response to their call may be favour- 
able, in which event, they assure you of a hearty co-operation 
in all plans for the prosj^erity of the Parish, which your well- 
known ability and large experience may enable you to propose. 
With the divine blessing on so auspicious a Pastoral connection, 
the Yestry believe that not only the spiritual welfare of St. 
Mary's Parish will be greatly promoted, but that also, the tem- 
poral condition of the Parish will soon enable them to offer an 
adequate pecuniary expression of their appreciation of your val- 
uable services. 

" The committee regret that under present circumstances, they 
are unable to offer you more than One Thousand Dollars per 
annum, together with the parsonage and grounds. 

We remain Reverend and Dear Sir, 
" Yery faithfully yours, 

" J. W. Odexheimer, 
"FraxivLix Gauxtt, ! ^, .,, 
-J. Howard Pugh, I Commdtee. 

''C. Baquet, J 

^^May 13th, 1863." 

the rev. e. a. hoffmax's acceptaxce. 

" Christ Church Rectory, 
Elizabeth, J., 21 May, 1863. 

'■^Messrs, J. W. Odenheimer, Franhlin Gauntt, J. Hoicard Pugh, 
and C. Baquet, Committee, ct'c. 

" Gextlemex — Your official communication, dated 13th 
xnst., announcing to me, in behalf of the Yestry of St. Mary's 
Church, Burlington, my unanimous call to the Rectorship of 



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the Parish, and offering me a salary of One Thousand Dollars 
per annum, together with the use of the parsonage, has received 
my most careful and deliberate consideration. The thought of 
what is justly to be expected of the Rector of so large and influ- 
ential a Parish, occupying from its relation to the Bishop and 
educational institutions of the Diocese, actually the position of 
a Cathedral Church, as well as the reluctance which I feel to 
sundering the tie which binds me to a faithful, beloved, and 
united congregation, has made me hesitate thus long before 
assuming the cares and responsibilities which a favourable reply 
to your call involves. Receiving, however, as it does the entire 
approval of the spiritual head of the diocese, and of those whose 
judgment I am bound to respect, I am led to believe that it is a 
call from the Divine Master to work in your portion of His 
vineyard, and relying on His guidance and blessing, I must ask 
you to convey to the Vestry of St. Mary^s Parish my acceptance 
of its Rectorship. 

" I have only to add that I shall be prepared to enter on my 
duties as soon as I can effect the removal of my family, which 
I suppose will be about the middle of next month,t and to thank 
you for your cordial expressions of kindness to myself personally, 
and assurances o:£ hearty co-operation on the part of the Vestry 
in all plans for the prosperity of the Parish. 

With the highest consideration, I am Gentlemen, your most 
obedient servant, 

^^E. A. Hoffman." 

LIABILITIES OF ST. MAPvY's CHUECH.'^ 

'^Burlington, X. J., July 1, 1863. 

^'Island Managers, (bond and mortgage,) $10,100 00 

Charles L. Fennimore, do. 1,600 00 

James Dempsey, do. 800 00 

T. Milnor, late Treasurer, advances 82,790 30 

Balance on settlement, October 1, I860,.. 178 60 

Interest, sav 453 34 

3,422 26 



t The Eev. Mr. Hoffman was instituted into the Eectorship of St. Mary's 
Parish, by Bishop Odenheimer. .June 29th, 1863. 



608 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



Amount brought forward 



815,922 20 



Rev. AV. C. Doane 
Robert B. Aertsen. 



1,000 00 

750 00 
680 00 
697 25 



Capt. F. Engle 

Mrs. S. P. Cleaveland 



William Speed, 
Interest 



877 92 

40 29 



John Larzelere 

Mr. Shapter 

Island Managers, interest due July 1, 1863, 



118 21 
50 00 
100 00 
100 00 



Total, 



819,399 72 



The above is a correct statement of the liabilities of the 
Church.'"^ 

THE EELATION BETTVEEX ST. BAEXABAS CHAPEL AXD ST. 
xaey's PAELSH. 

''July 20, 1863. — An adjourned meeting of the Vestry was 
held this evening. 

The committee appointed by the Vestry to inquire into the 
relationship existing between ' St. Barnabas Mission Chapel ^ 
and this parish, respectfully report, that they have carefully in- 
vestigated the title of the property and find that it is vested in 
the corporation of ' St. Mary^s Parish and that it is free from 
all encumbrances, with the exception of a mortgage of Fifteen 
Hundred Dollars, which is a portion of the debt of ten thousand 
one hundred dollars, resting on all of the Church property, due 
the Island Managers. 

'' The committee recommend that the A^estry take immediate 
possession of the Chapel, School House and grounds attached, 
which will place it in charge of the Rector, to make arrange- 
ments for such services as he may from time to time deem expe- 
dient and practicable. 



" E. A. HoFF.MAX, Bedor, 

"J. HOWAED PrGH, 

'•'Feax'klix Gauxtt, Committee. 



•'Burlington, X. J., loth July, a. d. 1863.' 



IN BURLINGTON. 



609 



THE VESTRY ASSUME COXTEOL QF THE PARISH SCELOOLS. 

November 9th, 1863. — -At a stated meeting of the Vestry, 
held this evening, the Committee on Schools reported as follows : 
Resolved, That the Yestry assume the control of the Parish 
Schools, and that a Standing Committee of two be appointed, 
whose duty it shall be, in connection with the Rector, to take 
charge of the same, to employ suitable teachers, to receive and 
disburse whatever income may be obtained for the support of 
the school, and to make a full report of tlieir doings to the Ves- 
try at the close of each school year. 

" On motion, J. IT. Pugh, M. D., and E. B. Grubb were 
appointed the Standing Committee on Parish Schools. 
On motion of Dr. Pugh — 

" Whereas, The sum of four hundred dollars has been sub- 
scribed by certain parties in* the Parish towards the payment of 
an Assistant Minister — therefore, 

" Resolved, That the Rector be authorized to employ an As- 
sistant Minister, at a salary not exceeding live hundred dollars 
per annum.l 

FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS OFFERED. 

St. Mary's Vestry Room, January 1st, 1864. — A Special 
Meeting of the Vestry was held this evening. 

" The Rector stated that he had called the Vestry together to 
lay before them a liberal offer which he had received from a 
friend of the Parish to subscribe $5000 towards paying the 
judgment of the Board of Island Managers, provided the bal- 
ance could be raised. 

On motion of Dr. Pugh, the Rector and Treasurer were di- 
rected to print the circular, a draft of which was presented, and 
send it to the members of the congregation. 

On motion, the Rector, Mr. Grubb, Mr. Rogers, Dr. 
Gauntt and Dr. Pugh were appointed a Committee to solicit 
subscriptions in agreement to the circular issued. The Com- 
mittee were directed to address a suitable letter in behalf of the 
Vestry, to the party making the above liberal offer. 

t December 14th, 1863.- At a meeting of the Vestrj, the Eector stated that 
he had employed, in accordance with the resohition of the Vestry, the Eev. 
Ephraim DePuy, as Assistant Minister of the Parish for one year, from De- 
cember 1st, 1863. 

2q 



610 



HISTOEY OF THE CHUECH 



FIXAXCIAL STATEMENT AXD APPEAL. 

" To the Congregation of St. Manjs Church, BarUngton, N. J. 
Deae Brethrex : 

A short time since, a gentleman from Philadelphia called 
upon us to communicate the gratifying intelligence, that a friend 
of the parish was prepared to give the large sum of §5000, 
towards paying its debts, provided a sufficient amount to liqui- 
date the balance of the indebtedness should be subscribed for 
that purpose. It was the first light vsdiich either of us had seen 
in the dark cloud of debt which has for years hung over the 
Church, interfering with its prosperity, and crippling it every 
way — and we felt that it was an opportunity Providentially 
afforded to the parishioners to extricate their Church from its 
pecuniary embarrassn:ients, which ought not to be lost. But 
how to raise so large a sum as the balance required, was the dif- 
ficulty. The debts amounted to a little more than $19,000, and 
we were satisfied, after careful reflection, and consultation 
with some of the members of the parish, that this sum was too 
large to be raised by cash subscriptions, even with the aid of the 
liberal offer Vvdiich had been made, and we determined to as^ain 
confer with the party who had made the offer, in order, if pos- 
sible, to get it put in a shape which could and ought to be 
complied with by the congregation. After a protracted inter- 
view the offer was finally renewed in the following form : 

^' To make it clear, we must first explain the position of the 
Church's debts. They consist of a judgment obtained by the 
Board of Island Managers against the AYardens and Yestry for 
S10,100, loaned to the parish, on Bond and Mortgage, in the 
year 1852, and a number of outstanding claims, amounting to a 
little more than §9000, for moneys borrowed from divers parties 
at different periods, during the erection of the new Church. The 
position of the judgment is such, execution having been issued 
and a levy having been made upon everything the Church pos- 
sesses, that not only must the interest be promptly paid, but the 
property of the ])arish may at any moment be exposed at sher- 
iff's sale, unless the amount called for by the judgment can be 
paid on demand. The removal of this judgnnent, which holds 



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611 



everything in its iron grasp, must, therefore, be the first step 
towards relieving the parish from its embarrassments. And when 
this is once accomplished, we feel that there will be but little 
difficulty, with the aid of some of the Church's landed property, 
in liquidating the balance of the debts. 

" In this view of the case, we obtained a renewal of the offer 
of the SoOOO, with the condition that it should be paid as soon 
as the additional sum of §5100 was subscribed to cancel the 
the judgment, and that the Testry should then use every effort 
to liquidate the remainder of the indebtedness as early as practi- 
cable. 

In addition to this, we are also enabled now to add, that a 
few members of the parish, to whom the matter has been men- 
tioned, in order that it may avail itself of the above liberal offer, 
have subscribed on the same conditions, an additional sum of 
a little more than §2000, leaving a balance of less than §3000 
to be raised by the congregation, to free the parish, as we be- 
lieve, forever from its difficulties. 

" We therefore lay the case before the congregation, with the 
earnest appeal, that every member of it will contribute liberally 
according to his or her ability, to avail themselves of the Provi- 
dential opportunity, which if neglected now, may not occur 
again in years, to place the parish in an independent position. 
To show the importance of immediate effort, we need only state, 
that the interest on the judgment referred to, annually absorbs 
§600 of the income of the church, and that since the original 
amount of §10,100 was borrowed, more than §6000 have already 
been paid for interest alone ; while the property which it covers 
is rendered almost useless to the parish. The present moment 
is, therefore, a crisis in the history of the parish, which must 
settle the question whether it is to be free from its pecuniary 
embarrassments, or go on, probably for years, struggling with a 
debt that may at any moment involve it in utter ruin. And 
we cannot believe that any who are interested in its welfare, will 
hesitate, as soon as the case is fairly before them, as to their duty 
in the matter. The Yestry have, therefore, directed this circu- 
lar to be addressed to the congregation, and appointed a com- 
mittee to solicit the required subscriptions, and they earnestly 



612 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



appeal to every member and friend of the parish to give liberally 

as the Lord hath blessed them. 

" Eugene Aug's Hoffmax, Rector, 
" Edward B. Grubb, Treasurer. 
Burlington, N. J., 2 Jan., 1864. 

committee to collect subscriptions . 
'^Rev. E. a. Hoffmax, 
Edward B. Grubb, Samuel Rogers, 

Fraxklix Gauxtt, M. D., J. Howard Pugh, M. D." 

A GREAT WEIGHT REMOVED. 

'^Burlington, N. J., 6 Feb'y, 1864. 
"My Dear Sir— The A^estry of St. Mary's Church, have 
intrusted us with the pleasing duty of acknowledging through 
you, to their unknown benefactor, the very liberal donation of 
§5000 towards removing the heavy indebtedness with which 
the Parish has so long been burdened. While we thank God^ 
that he has put it into the heart of one to whom He has given 
the means of doing so much good, we desire to express to the 
donor our own acknowledgments for the munificent gift, which 
has removed a great weight from the minds of the Vestry, and 
lifted the dark cloud which hung over the future history of the 
Parish. AVe are happy to say, that the liberal manner in which 
the parishioners generally have responded to our appeal to raise 
the balance required, has not only placed the entire amount at 
our disposal, and secured, as we believe, the speedy liquidation 
of the balance of the debt, but given a new life and impulse to 
the Parish in every way. In the earnest hope that this may 
prove the beginning of a long course of usefulness for our ancient 
Parish, and with the fervent prayer that God will remember 
our benefactor, for this ^ good deed ' done to ' the house of our 
God, and for the offices thereof,' 

We remain, very respectfully, 

Your grateful and obedient servants, 
" EuGEXE Aug. Hoffmax, 

''Redor of St. Mary's Church. 
" Edward B. Grubb, 
J. Howard Pugh, ( Committee on 
Samuel Rogers, { Subscriptions. 
'^Fraxklix Gauxtt, J 
^^James H. Castle, Esq., Philadelphia." 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 



G13 



EESIGXATIOX OF THE EEV. ME. HOFFMAX. 

" BurlingtoD, X. J., 29 February, 1864. 
^'Jiessrs. J. W. Odenheimer, and F. Gauntt, 31, D., Wardens, ct'c. 

^' Gextlemex — I find myself most unexpectedly called upon 
to request you to announce to the Vestry of St. Mary's parish 
that I have felt it my duty to accept a call to the Rectorship of 
Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights, Xew York. Apart from the 
trial involved in the separation of pastor and people, you will 
I am sure, appreciate, that a decision, which takes me from a 
parish to which from past as well as present associations my 
heart is very closely tied, and removes me from the only diocese 
in which I had expected to labor until called to give an account 
of my stewardship, could only be arrived at after the most 
careful consideration and under a conscientious sense of the duty 
which I owe to the Church and myself. The circumstances, 
however, of this call, doming as it has at a time when St. Mary's 
Church, through the liberality of the parishioners, is on the eve 
of being freed from the pecuniary embarrassments which have 
so long crippled its energies, and placed in an independent posi- 
tion, seemed to leave me but little choice in the matter. I am, 
therefore, constrained to ask the Wardens and Vestry to accept 
this my resignation of the Rectorship of St. Mary's parish, to 
take effect from the first day of April next, when I propose, 
God willing, to enter on my duties in the new field to which 
Providence seems to have called me. 

" Thanking yourselves and the Vestry for your personal 
kindness and co-operation in all that I have proposed for the 
efficiency of the Church during our official connection, and 
praying that God's blessing may ever rest upon yourselves and 
the parish you represent, I am, 

■'^ With the highest respect and esteem, 
" Your obedient servant, 

" Efgexe Aug's Hoffmax." 



614 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



ACTION OF THE VESTRY OX THE EESIGXATIOX OF THE 

RECTOR. 

Resolved, That the resignation of the Rev. E. A. Hoffmanj. 
Rector of St. Mary's Church, be and is hereby accepted, accord- 
ing to the tenor of his letter to the Vestry. 

Besolved, That a committee of three be appointed to prepare 
a suitable answer to the letter of resignation. 

^' Rev. axd Dear Sir — We, the undersigned, a committee 
appointed under the above resolutions, desire, on behalf of the 
Wardens and Vestry of St. Mary's Parish, to express to you 
the deep regret, the heartfelt sorrow experienced by ourselves 
and the whole congregation, at parting from you. Although 
you have been but a short time amongst us, yet your gentle- 
manly demeanor, your courtesy and kindness, your faithfulness 
and efficiency in all the duties that belong to the Christian 
Minister, have drawn towards you all our hearts with a rare 
and hearty unanimity, so that we had indulged in the hope that 
your stay with us might be prolonged and permanent. 

^' By the generosity of an unknown benefactor, the liberality 
of the parishioners, and last, not least, the tireless energy and 
enthusiasm which you threw into the work, and infused into 
others, we have been enabled to relieve the parish, in great 
measure, from the heavy burden of debt that has been oppress- 
ing it for years, so that it will be no fault of yours, if the work 
of the parish be not henceforth efficient and prosperous. 

" We thank you for the kindliness and earnestness with 
which you entered upon your work amongst us. We are grate- 
ful to you, under God, for the success that has crowned your 
labors. We accept the Providence that has called you to an- 
other and a wider field. We bespeak for you therein, that 
co-operation and sympathy and love, always and everywhere 
needed to sustain the hands and encourage the heart of the 
Christian Minister. And more than all, and above all, we 
invoke upon your labor and life the blessing of Almighty God. 

'^J. Howard Pugh, 

Franklin Gatjntt, 
" Edward B. Grubb, CommilteeJ^ 



I 



IN BURLINGTON. 



G15 



r.EPORT ox SUBSGEIPTIO^^S. 

St. Mary's Vestry Room, March 26th, 1864 — An adjourned 
meeting of the Yestry was held this evening. 

The committee to which was referred tlie collection of sub- 
scriptions for the liquidation of the debts of St. Mary's Churchy 
beg leave to make the following report : 

They have collected and paid into the hands of the Treasurer 
of the Church the following sums. [Here follows a list of one 
hundred and ten names, with amounts set opposite to each, 
varying from §6500 — the Misses Mcllvaine's subscription— to 
§1, and making a total of §11,291.76.] 

A CHIME OF BELLS OFFERED. 

''Burlington, N. J., 28 March, 1864. 
" My Dear Sir — I stated yesterday to the congregation of 
St. Mary% that if they v/ould pay off the balance of the debt, 
§1600, a chime of bells would be given to the Church and 
something for an endowment for the ringers. There seems a 
disposition now to raise the money, but it is a lai^e sum after 
what has been done, and the debt can only be settled with cash, 
Will you do me the favor to find out whether I can have $500 
more, provided the balance is raised, and let me know by tele- 
graph during to-day ? If this will be allowed, I think the 
balance can be raised, and would advise it to be done. 
" Very sincerely yours, 

''E. A. Hoffman. 
^' James H. Castle, Esq., Philadelphia." 

MRS. CLEVELAND RELINQUISHES HER CLAIM. 

St. Mary's Vestry Room, June 13th, 1864.— A stated meet- 
ing of the Vestry was held this evening, J, W, Odenheimer, 
Senior Warden, in the chair. 

A letter was received from Mrs. Sarah P. Cleveland, and the 
following extract from it ordered placed on the minutes, viz. ; 

''Rome, Casa Zuccari, April 2d, 1864. 

"Rev. and Dear Sir — Through your letter of 15th Feb- 
ruary, which was some\yhat delayed on its way, I learn with 



616 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



sincere thanfalness of the hope you have to relieve St. Mary's 
froDi debt ; I trust indeed that your efforts will be crowned 
with success ; to secure which, I am most happy to relinquish 
my small claim of S679.25, which is the remainder of an ad- 
vance I made as a loan, and for which I have no security but 
an acknowledgment from Mr. Thomas Milnor. This I have 
left in America, but my now writing will cancel that, should I 
not live to return. * 

" Saeah p. Cleveland." 

On motion of Dr. Pugh, the AVardens and Treasurer were 
directed to write a suitable acknowledgment to the letter of 
Mrs. Cleveland. 

LETTER TO MES. CLEVELAND. 

St. Mary's Yestry Room, June 20th, 1864. — An adjourned 
meeting of the Yestry was held this evening, J. Y'. Odenheimer, 
Senior Y^arden, in the chair. 

The Committee appointed to write a letter to Mrs. Sarah P. 
Cleveland, piftsented the following, which was approved, viz. : 

Burlington, June 28th, 1864. 
Deae Madaim — We beg leave to address you as a Com- 
mittee of the Yestry of St. 2\Iary's Church, Burlington, in dis- 
charge of the duty assigned to us, of acknowledging your gen- 
erous action in relinquishing your claim of 8679.25, as conveyed 
to us by your letter to the late Rector, the Rev. E. A. Hoffman, 
dated Rome, April 2d, 1864. Y^e feel the highest satisfaction 
in having been selected by the Yestry to convey to you an ex- 
pression of their grateful acknowledgment of your liberality. 
This sentiment of gratitude is shared in by the entire congrega- 
tion of St. Mary's Parish, which is so greatly indebted to you 
for repeated manifestations of your munificence. For the 
interest which, by word and deed, you have taken in the pros- 
perity of the schools, and the poor of St. Mary's Church, as well as 
in your generous contributions to relieve the parish from debt, 
you have the lasting gratitude of the Yestry and Congregation. 
Together with our thanks, we add the prayer that the benedic- 



IN BUELIXGTON. 



617 



tion of the Divine Head of the Church may rest upon you, both 
now and forever. 

" ^Vith sentiments of the highest regard, we remain, dear 
Madam, most respectfully jours, 

^^J. AY. Odexheoier, 
" Edwaed B. Grebe, 
" Feanklix Gal'xtt, 
" Com. of the Vestry of St. Mary^s Church, Burlmgton, K. J. 

^' To Mrs. Sarah P. Cleveland, Casa Zuccari, Eome, Italy.'' 

the balaxce oe the debt eemoyed. 

" Brooklyn N. Y., 22 July, 1864. 

" My Dear Sir — I was delighted to learn from your letter 
of the 19th, that the balance of the debt had been removed from 
St. Mary^s Church. I was in Burlington, for two days last 
week, and finding nothing had been done since I left, succeeded 
in getting Dr. Pugh to push the plan of selling to two or 
three of the Vestry, a piece of the Church property for §1600, 
to cancel the debt, and am glad to hear that it has been ac- 
complished. I hope you will write to Miss Mcllvaine, and 
inform her that the debt is paid, as she seemed last week when 
I called on her, discouraged about the way the Vestry had 
treated her proposition, and inclined to think her offer would 
not be accepted after all. 

"I should like very much to see you about the matter. Can- 
not you come on to New York on Monday or Tuesday next ? 
I am going in the country on Tuesday evening, and shall not be 
at home again for more than a day at a time until the first of 
September, but could meet you here, if you desire it, on AYed- 
nesday, 3d Aug., or Tuesday, 9th August. But hope you will 
come on early next week if you can. 

" Yours very sincerely, 

" E. A. HOFEMAX. 

" P. S. — My house is 41 Remsen street, first over the AYall 
street ferry. 

'•'E. A. H." 



618 



HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



THE TOAVER DESIGNED FOR A CHIME. 

Brattleboro, Yt., 19 Aug., 18G4. 

" J. H. Castle, Esqr. 

^' My Dear Sir — Your letter of the 16th, is just at hand 
with the enclosed from the Messrs. Meneely. I am satisfied 
that if they will take the responsibility of hanging them prop- 
erly, (and they can easily do it by examining how the chime in 
Trinity Church, Xew York, is hung,) I would give the order 
to them. Before giving the order, I should however, like ta 
compare the list of the weights and notes of the bells, with the 
lists of English chimes which I have in my library, I shall be 
at home about the 6th of September, and shall be glad to see 
you then, or will meet you in Burlington some day shortly after 
that. 

" In reference to the tower of St. Mary^s Church, it does not 
need any alterations at all. It was designed by Upjohn and 
Bishop Doane for a chime. Upjohn built and completed the 
Church, and just after an interview, as you suggested, I recjuested 
him to make a drawing of the interior of the tower for the bells, 
which he is doing. It will hardly be necessary to employ Xot- 
man. When in Burlington, I can show you how the bells can 
be arranged very easily. Upjohn spent a day with me there 
last Spring, and we talked it all over. 

f Yery sincerely yours, 

"E. A. HOFFMAX. 

^' P. S. — Please return the enclosed letters as requested, and 
let me have Meneely 's again. 

"E. A. H."^ 

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN BELLS. 

"Brooklyn, X. Y., 3 October, 1864. 

''Joi'/ues H. Castle, Esq. 

" My Dear Sir — Since our last interview with Mr. Me- 
neely, I have been thinking over his statements, and must say 
that after careful consideration and examination of some of the 
best English authorities, my judgment is that you will do a 
great deal better to order the bells from England. My reasons 



IX BURLIXGTOX. 



G19 



for this^ (apart from the fact that Mr. Meneely, accordiDg to his 
own confession^ is simplv an experimenter in the matter of 
chimes, and should be unwilling to pay him for the benefit of 
making experiments, which are more than likely to prove unsat- 
isfactory,) are simply these : Meneely^s bells are made on the 
American principle of attempting to make good things cheaper 
than they can be obtained from abroad. In some thiugs this 
will answer, but in all matters of art, (of which bell founding 
is one, ) it generally ends in failure. In pursuance of this princi- 
ple, his bells are all very much thinner and ligliter than the 
English bells, which give the same musical note. I am satis- 
fied, that the heavier a bell can be cast to produce the recjuired 
note, the more satisfactory will be the tone. You can see the 
principle illustrated in the deep booming of the bell of a Yankee 
clock, which, (excuse the Irishism,) is only a wire coiled. 
Meneely's patterns for bells are all made on the American 
principle of light bells, and he has no moulds to cast bells of 
the English pattern and weight. He would not undertake to 
recast the Christ Church cracked bell of the same weig^ht and 
note. The bells of Christ Church and St. Stephen's, Philadel- 
phia, are fair examples of the two principles. 

The Hon. E. B. Denison, who is the highest English 
authority on bells, and referred to by Meneely himself, says on 
this subject : 

* The desire of modern bell founders to produce grand effects 
cheaply, has led them to pretend that they can imitate the tones 
of large and heavy bells by smaller thin ones. This not only 
fails to do what is intended, but does exactly the reverse; since 
copying the note of a large thick bell by a smaller thin one, 
prevents all resemblance in the quality of the tone, which is 
really much better imitated by a smaller bell of proper thickness 
and a higher note. The object of a peal of bells being not to 
make a noise, but a pleasant and melodious noise, it is only 
a truism to say, (what is constantly treated as if it were not 
true,) that a moderate number of good bells is better than a 
larger peal of bad ones. In the cases I referred to the money 
was wasted in trying to increase the number of the peal beyond 



»620 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



what was suitable to their weight. Ko peal of ten can be a 
really fine one with a tenor of less than two tons ; nor a peal of 
eight with less than 25 cwt. The trebles, (which are the smallest 
bells,) should run from 7 to 5 cwt., below which no bell ever 
sounds well in a peal.' 

" When now you compare the last remark wdth the weight of 
Mr. Meneely's proposed peal, you will find that four of his 
■eight bells are below the weight given by Denison for the 
:smallest bell and the least that will sound well in a peal. 

'^On inquiry, I find that a peal of eight bells, w^eighing 
10,000 lbs., can be had from Mears, in London, with all the 
hangings and frame complete, delivered on board ship, for 
about 700 pounds sterling. The freight, insurance, and hang- 
ing, (which could then be done at a trifling cost by any good 
mechanic,) would not add much to the price. What the duty 
is I am not aware, but all that added up w^ould not make the 
cost any more than the price of Meneely's peal. 

"Whatever you decide on, I wall do the best I can to help 
you, but my own judgment in the matter is clear. If you 
should decide to order them from Mears, I have a friend, in a 
large firm in London, (who was once a Warden of my Church 
in Elizabeth, and an amateur in all such Church matters,) who 
would gladly attend to the ordering and shipping of the bells, 
and effecting all the financial arrangements. 

''Very sincerely yours, 

''E. A. HOFFMAX. 

^' p. S. — I needly scarcely add that there is every probability 
that exchange will be much lower than now, before another 
month is past.'' 

AX EXGLISH PEAL DECIDED UPOX. 

Brooklyn, Is. Y., 11 October, 1861. 

^'Jas. H. Castle, Esqr. 

^^Dear Sir — I am very glad that Miss Mcllvaine has 
decided to allow you to send to England for the bells, for I am 
very sure that they will be in every way more satisfactory. In 
your letter, however, I think you overestimate the cost of the 
English bells. The duty is, I find, 35 per cent., but it will not 



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cost more than S2oO to put them in the tower of St. Mary's^, 
after they are landed in Philadelphia or New York. 

" The name of the English Bell Founders is G. C. Mears- 
& Co. J White Chapel, London, and of my friend there, who I 
think would gladly attend to anything we might desire about 
the bells, is Chas. H. Edwards, Esq. He is occupied both in 
London and Liverpool, and may be addressed care of Alex.. 
Bell & Sons, London. I suppose that you will write to Mears 
for an estimate on the bells, frame, &c., all complete delivered^ 
on board ship. He should have the size of the room in the 
tower of St. Mary's, in wdiich the bells are to be hung, both, 
width and height — size, width, and height of windows, and' 
height of window-sill from the floor — position where the door 
enters the room — and before the bells are ordered, it would be 
well to give him the position and size of the timbers, which 
support the floor of the bell-chamber. They may be seen from 
the Church, and cross each other thus : 

+ + 

+ + 

"A general measurement would do for an estimate, but I 
would suggest the propriety of getting Upjohn to send a young 
man to Burlington to measure and make a rough draft of the 
tower, before the order is given. The mouth of the bells should' 
hang on a level with the window sills. 

" He should be directed to put the bell& all in ringing order, 
even to the ropes. Each bell must have a stay or stojj, (fastened 
to the stock and not to the loheel,) with proper catch or slides that 
the bell may be set. Also, a separate hammer, for chiming as- 
in plate YII of Ellacombe's practical remarks on Belfries and- 
Ringers. The bell clappers should be boxed in brass, and pro- 
vided with mufflers to ring a muffled peal for funerals, &c.. 
All the bells are to have inscriptions. The whole peal to weigh, 
say 10,000 or 11,000 lbs., and the treble bell to be not less than. 
550 lbs. The peal to have but 8 bells. Pulleys of hard wood, 
brass bushed, must be provided for the floor where the ropes- 
pass through. Let me hear w^hat you. determine upon. 

" Very sincerely yours, 

''E. A. HOFFMAX..''' 



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THE EEV. WM. ALLEX JOHNSON ELECTED RECTOR OF ST. 

mary's parish. t 

^'St. Mary's Yestiy Room, October 18th, 1864.— An ad- 
journed meeting of the Vestry was held this evening ; F. 
Gauntt, M. D., (Junior Warden) in the chair. 

" On motion it was resolved that the A^estry go into an elec- 
tion for Rector. 

" Whereupon a vote being taken, the Rev. Wni. Allen John- 
son was unanimously elected Rector of this Parish." 



THE REV. MR. JOHXSOX ACCEPTS THE RECTORSHIP. 

'^St. Mary's Yestry Room, November 14th, 1864.— A stated 
meeting of the Yestry was held this evening ; J. W. Oden- 
heimer, Senior Warden, in the chair, 

" The Committee appointed to inform the Rev. Wm. Allen 
Johnson of his election to the Rectorship of this Parish, report 
that they have received a letter of acceptance, which stated he 
would enter upon his duties on the twenty-sixth Sunday after 
Trinity (the 20th of November). 

" Same. Rogers, 1 Commiffee " 
Fraxklix Gauxtt, r 



order for a peal of eight bells. 

Philadelphia, Penn., Nov. 22, 1864. 
G. C. Mears & Co. — A year ago, two ladies, Margaret S. 
and Mary Mcllvaine of Burlington, New Jersey, made provision 
for a peal of bells for St. Mary's Church, Burlington, and re- 
qusted me to procure the bells, and have them properly hung. 
Owing to the high rate of Exchange on London, and other con- 

f William Allen Johnson, second son of the Rev. Samuel Roosevelt John" 
son, D. D., was born at Hyde Park, Dutchess Co., IST. Y., August 4th, 1833 ; 
graduated at Columbia College, N, Y., July 27tli, 1853, and at the General 
Theological Seminary, N. Y., June 24th, 1857; was ordained Deacon, in 
Trinity Church, JST. Y''., June 28th, 1857, by Bishop Horatio Potter; proceeded 
M. A. at Columbia College, June 30th of same year; became the minister of 
St. Peter's Church, Bainbridge and Christ Church, Guilford, in the Diocese of 
Western New York, September 6th, 1857 ; was advanced to the Priesthood in 
St. John's Church, Whitestown, N. Y., October 31st, 1858, by Bishop 
DeLancey; and was Missionary at Clifton and parts adjacent, in the Diocese 
of Miciiigan, from November 9th, 1862, to August 28th, 1864. 



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623 



siderations, the matter has been suffered to rest until the present 
time. In the mean while I am sorry to have to add, one of 
these good ladies, (Miss Margaret S. Mcllvaine,) has died. 

" After consultation with the former Eector of the Church, 
Rev. E. A. Hoffman, (now of Grace Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.,) 
I have determined to place this order for. the bells in your 
hands for execution, having the fullest confidence, from the high 
character of your firm, that we shall not be disappointed in the 
-quality or tone of the peal. 

You will therefore, please consider this letter, unless you 
desire something more formal, as an order for a peal of Eight 
Bells, to weigh about 10,000 lbs., or 90 cwt., the treble bell to 
be not less than 6 cwt. — the bells to be perfectly sound, and in 
tone and tune as perfect as you can possibly make them. We 
have at Christ Church, in this city, a peal of 8 bells, cast at your 
foundry in 1754, by Lester & Pack, and we shall consider our- 
selves fortunate, if the peal now ordered for St. Mary's should 
prove equally as satisfactory. 

The Bev. Mr. Hoffman wdio has given some attention to the 
subject, has kindly drawn up for me some specifications for the 
bells, which I desire you to adhere to. They are — 

" 1. The bells to be hung ready for ringing a peal, in a good 
strong frame, on the same level, not one above another. 

2. The bells to be made on the Doncaster Pattern, com- 
posed of 4 lbs. of tin to 13 lbs. of copper, and no bell to be cast 
with its sound bow less than 1-13 its diameter. The treble bell 
to weigh not less than 6 cwt. 

" 3. Eacli bell to be provided with a stop (to set the bells) 
and a slider to run in a circular groove, struck from the gudgeon 
as a centre, and covered with a board to prevent the oil from 
dropping on it. 

"4. Each bell to be provided with a chiming hammer, with 
an inch hole drilled in it, and a piece of wood inserted where it 
is to strike the bell, and made as shown in Plate YII of Ella- 
combe's treatise on Belfries and Binwrs. 

o 

" 5. The clappers to be properly boxed to the bolts with brass 
or wood, and provided with mufflers for funerals. 



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" 6. Pulleys bushed with brass and fitted up in carriages to* 
be provided for the ropes where they pass through the floor. 

" 7. All the wood and iron work of frame and hangings to be 
painted three good coats of dark brown color. 

8. Good ropes to be provided for ringing, and the necessary 
ropes, &c., for chiming. 

I enclose a drawing of the bell chamber, floors, &c., which 
will give you such information as you may need for making 
the frame work and arranging the bells. The chamber is 
18 ft. 8 in. in width, by 16 ft. 10 in. in height. It is proposed 
to have a frame put up for the bells to rest upon at the point 
marked A in the sketch. The frame for the bells must be made 
to rest on the timbers, and not fastened to the w^alls of the tower 
or bell chamber. We deem it unfortunate that the bells will 
have to be rung from the floor of the Church, but this cannot at 
present be obviated. When they are not in use the ropes can 
be drawn up into the belfry. The arrangement for chiming 
can be made at a point near the pulpit, which is on one of the 
piers of the tower. 

It is important that the frame work for the bells should be 
made at your establishment, and so marked for putting up that 
a tolerably good mechanic would find no difficulty in arranging 
the frame and putting the bells in their proper position for im- 
mediate use. 

It would be desirable to have the bells shipped from Liver- 
pool to Philadelphia, as Burlington is on the River Delaware,, 
about 20 miles above this City, but if shipped to New York we 
can readily receive them, as there is direct railroad communica- 
tion with Burlington. On this subject I will write again. Sat- 
isfactory arrangements will be made with some London house 
to pay for the bells on delivery at Liverpool, but I am unable 
by this mail to name the house. My friend, Mr. Hoffman, will 
write by this or the next mail to Charles H. Edwards, Esq., of 
the house of Alexander Bell & Sons, of London, in reference tO' 
this order for the bells^ and it is probable that I can make ar- 
rangements with this firm to attend to the payment. 

" Enclosed you will please find the inscriptions we desire tO' 
have put on the bell&. On the tenor you will observe we wish 



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to have the date of presentation, Christmas, 1863, as the ladies 
were both living at that date, and had at that time made pro- 
vision for the bells. 

"I understand that you guarantee all bells for one year. 

" Will you please make up an estimate of the cost of the bells 
and frame work, &c., &c., up to delivery at Liverpool, and let 
me know as early as possible. Also please inform me about 
what time we may expect the bells to be ready for delivery, and 
give me such items of information as you may deem of import- 
ance to us. 

^' Yours, very respectfully, 

"James H. Castle.'^ 

the order for the bells acknowledged, 
''Bell Foundry, Whitechapel, E., 

''London, 8th December, 1864. 
"James H. Castle, Esq., 115 South 5th street, Philadelphia. 

" Sir — We are much obliged by your order for a peal of 8 
bells, treble not less than 6 cwt., whole peal about 90 cwt., with 
Frame, Stock, Wheels, &c., complete, and chiming hammers. 

" Attention shall be paid to your instructions — but we think 
you had better leave to our judgment and experience the exact 
proportion of Tin and Copper and thickness of sound bow, and 
we will promise you a first rate peal of bells — we hope and wish 
as good, if not better, than those made by our predecessors in 
1754 — if, however, you think it better the bells should be made 
as you direct — they shall be. 

" We presume by Doncaster pattern you mean button instead 
of crown heads. 

" We will send the estimate desired by a future post, 
" And are your ob. serv., 

"G. Mears & Co.'' 

THE "doncaster PATTERN" RECOMMENDED. 

"Philadelphia, January 5, 1865. 
" llessrs, G. C. Hears & Co. 

"Gentlemen — Yours of December 8th, was duly received. 
As the specifications in my letter of Nov. 22 were drawn up by 

2r 



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my friend, Rev. Mr. HofFmaD, I submitted to him your note, 
and have just received his reply. I copy such portions of his 
letter as relates to the bells : ^ I should hardly be inclined to 
allow them to make any bell of the peal thinner in the sound 
bow than directed. They may make them thicker if they desire. 
And I am inclined to believe from my reading, that the nearer 
they keep to the proportion of the metals specified, the better 
the quality of the bells. Still on this point I should not insist 
very strenuously. I would have them follow the ^ Doncaster 
pattern ' as far as possible in all particulars, unless they have 
good and decided reasons for departing from it. The directions 
which were given were all founded on the experience of the best 
waiters on the subject, and they (Messrs. Mears) ought to be 
able and willing to warrant us a first-rate peal by following 
them.' 

"You will observe that in one particular (the sound bow) 
Mr. Hoffman thinks the specified thickness should be adhered 
tOj and unless there are very good objections, I would like you 
to make the bells in accordance with his wishes. 

" We are anxious for a good peal, and are glad to have your 
promise that we shall not be disappointed. 

" AVill you do me the favor to send to my address any cir- 
cular you may have issued. I wish to have, if possible, a list of 
the bells made at your foundry— a printed copy I think I saw 
a year ago in the belfry of one of our Churches. 

" Yours very respectfully, 

" James H. Castle, 
"115 South 5th.'' 

A FINE PEAL GUARANTEED. 

" 267 Whitechapel Road, 

" London, 21st January, 1865. 
James H. Castle^ JEsqr.y 115 So. 5th street, Philadelphia. 
" Sir — We beg to acknowledge receipt of your favor of 5th 
inst. If you will allow us to make your new bells as we think 
best, we will guarantee you a fine peal. You shall name any 



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627 



person you please to bear them before they are sent away or 
paid for. More than this we cannot say. 

" If;, however^ you prefer it, we will make them according to 
the plan recommended by Mr. Hoffman, but in that case we 
cannot guarantee the quality, as we do not approve either the 
metal or form. With every respect for that gentleman, we must 
repeat that we are the most experienced bell founders in the 
world, and altho' we do not write books, deliver lectures, or 
puff ourselves in other ways, we believe we know our business 
both theoretically and practically. 

" It is an easy matter to write a book and make an assertion, 
but it is not so easy to make a peal of bells in perfect harmony 
with each other. The assertion made by Mr. Dennison that the 
sound bow of a bell ought to be 1-13 its diameter, was based on 
this : One day when at this foundry he heard a very good bell 
of about 6 cwt. In the course of conversation he asked the 
thickness and diameter, which w^ere 2 3-8 in. and 2 ft. 7 in. 
The crook from which that bell was made had been in use per- 
haps fifty years. In his next lecture he announced he had 
discovered that the sound bovf of a bell ought to be l-13th its 
diameter. This altho' quite true of some bells is only appli- 
cable to bells of a certain weight and size. We have now in 
our foundry a splendid bell, 25 J cwt., the sound bow of which 
is l-15th its diameter. Large bells have to be made thinner, 
small bells thicker than the proportion named by Mr. Dennison. 
We vary the thickness of our bells according to the notes we 
wish to produce. We think you will see the truth of our re- 
marks, and it will be some proof to you they are not theory 
only, if you will have the kindness to inspect and measure the 
bells you like so much in Christ Church in your city. 

" We assure you we are willing and anxious to accede to your 
wishes in every respect, but knowing from experience the metal 
and proportion you name wdll not produce what you want, a 
^ first rate peal of bells,' we trust you will excuse ' our so 
strongly recommending your leaving these matters to our own 
judgment. 

^' We shall be glad to know w^hether you prefer sharj) or flat, 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



that is deep toned bells. We Lave not any very recently 
published lists of peals. We send one of the latest we have by 
Book Post, 

'^And are yours very respectfully, 

^^G. Hears & Co.'^ 

THE CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING THE SECOND TIME. 

"St. Mary's Yestry Room, July 11th, 1865.— A special 
meeting of the Vestry was held this evening at the call of the 
Rector, who presented the following : 

"Whereas, On Tuesday, June 20th, at a little past 6 p. 3i., 
St. Mary's Church was struck by lightning for the second time, 
but not severely injured, this Vestry desire to place on record 
the followina: Minute as a matter of historical and scientific 
interest ; and to testify their thankfulness to Almighty God for 
the protection of the sacred building from destruction : 

" Minute : 

"A few minutes after the congregation, met together for the 
daily evening prayer, had dispersed, the electric fluid was dis- 
charged from the earth upward, following the gas pipe which 
supplies the Corona, until near the apex of the chancel roof^ 
where it left the pipe, scorching one of the rafters, struck the 
roof, raising the boards, bending outwards one of the plates of 
tin, and finally piercing a hole through it, as though a crowbar 
had been forcibly thrust through. In another place also, out- 
side, the hydrant was struck and damaged, and a stone in one 
of the buttments near the Vestry room moved from its place. 
Most providentially no fire was communicated to the building. 
On the next Sunday the following prayer was read at morning 
and afternoon service, adapted from the prayer book, the words 
in parenthesis being inserted : 

" ^ O most mighty and gracious good God, Thy mercy is over 
all Thy works, but in special manner hath been extended toward 
us, whom Thou hast so powerfully and wonderfully defended. 
Thou hast showed us terrible things and wonders in (heaven 
above and in the earth beneath) that we might see how powerful 
and gracious a God Thou art ; how able and ready to help those 
who trust in Thee. Thou hast showed us how both (lightning 
and tempest) obey Thy command ; that we may learn, even 
from them, hereafter to obey Thy voice, and to do Thy will. 
We, therefore, bless and glorify Thy Xame, for this Thy mercy 



IN BUELINGTOTS^ 



629 



in saving (from destruction this holy and beautiful house) de- 
voted to Thy honor and worship. May we be duly sensible of 
Thy merciful Providence towards us, and ever express our 
thankfulness by a holy trust in Thee, and obedience to Thy 
laws, through Jesus Christ our Lord/ " 

A FIXER PEAL NEVER MADE. 

" Bell Foundry, Whitechapel, E., 
" London, 8th December, 1865. 
James H. Castle, Esqr., Philadelphia, 
"Dear Sir — We are very sorry there has been so much delay 
in shipping the bells for St. Mary's, Burlington, but it has been 
unavoidable ; we have so much difficulty in finding good work- 
men. At last we have got all the wood work completed, and 
have engaged freight by the steamer ^ Cella,' to sail for New 
York from London on the 22d. We are happy to say a finer 
peal of bells never left this foundry. They have been so uni- 
versally admired the last 2 or 3 months, for the bells have been 
ready that time, that we are sorry to lose them. 

"Trusting in our next to have the pleasure of handing you 
shipping documents, 

" We are yours very truly, 

" Mears & Stainbauk." 

st. barxabas chapel leased for three years. 

"December 11th, 1865.— At a stated meeting of the Yestry, 
<on motion of Dr. Ellis, it was 

" Resolved, That in case of the organization of a second Parish 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Burlington, St. Barnabas' 
Chapel be leased, at the annual rent of one dollar, for a term of 
three years."'' 

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP " CELLA." 

" Astor House, New York, 

"February 6, 1866. 
" My Dear Horace — It was near 6 o'clock, yesterday, when 
I saw the despatch in the Bulletin, announcing the arrival of the 
steamship Cella, and I had to hurry up to Kensington to take 



630 



HISTOEY OF THE CHUECH 



the 7 o'clock train. I arrived safely about 10 J, and am com- 
fortably lodged at this house. I visited the ship this morning, 
and had a very pleasant interview with the Captain. The ship 
has had terrible weather, and a long voyage — 30 days. The 
Captain told me, that the water was, at one time, five feet high 
in the saloon — which is on the deck — and that he had 600 tons 
of water on his ship. One of his officers was swept away and 
drowned. You see, therefore, what a narrow escape our bells 
have made. I have been very busy all the morning at the 
Custom House, paying duties, and making the necessary ar- 
rangements to have the bells forwarded to Burlington. The ship 
has commenced discharging cargo, but as the bells are at the 
bottom of the hold, it is not likely they will be taken out for 
two or three days. I think I shall be able to get through here 
so as to return by to-morrow night. With love to all. In haste. 
Your affectionate father, 

^^J. H. Castle. 

Master H. Castle.'' 

. THE BELLS BEOUGHT TO BUELIXGTOX. 

"Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1866. 
" Gextlemex — The bells of St. Mary's Church were safely 
brought to Burlington on the 16th inst. ; and we hope to have 
them securely hung in the tower, ready for an opening at Easter, 
if not before. We are very much pleased with the appearance 
of the bells, and feel assured they will give entire satisfaction. 
Please find enclosed a Bill of Exchange for £66 18s. 9c?., the 
balance of your account. Please acknowledge receipt, and oblige.- 
" Yrs. very truly, 

"J. H. Castle, 115 South oth street, 
" Messrs. Mears & Stainbauk." 

IXSCRIPTIOXS ox the BELLS. 
[From the Gospel Messenger.] 

" St. Mary's, Burlington, X. J., 

March 1, 1866. 
" The chime of eight bells for this Church are now being 
placed in the tower. They will remain silent until Easter 



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631 



morning, when they will usher in the dawning of that glorious 
clay. 

'^The largest one weighs 2800 pounds, and is inscribed as 
follows : 

" 'This peal of eight bells is the gift of Margaret S. and Mary Mcllvaine to 
St. Mary's Church, Burlington, New Jersey, Christmas, A. D. 1863. Glory be 
to God on high, and on earth peace, good will toward men.' 

"2d. The Bishop's Bell: 

" ' In memory of George Washington Doane, Second Bishop of NeAv -Jersey. 
The glorious company of the Apostles praise Thee.' 

" 3d. The Rector's Bell : 

" 'O ye Priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord, praise Him, and magnify 
Him forever.' 

"4th. The People's Bell: 

" 'O ye servants of the Lord, bless ye the Lord, praise Hira, and magnify 
Him forever.' 

" 5th. The Thanksgiving Bell : 

" 'My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh give 
thanks unto His holy name forever and ever.' 

" 6th. The Funeral Bell : 

" 'O ye spirits and souls of the righteous, bless ye the Lord, praise Jlim, 
and magnify Him forever.' 

"7th. The Marriage Bell : 

" ' Those whom God hath joined together let not man put asunder.' 
" 8th. The Patriot's Bell : 
" ' Give peace in our time, O Lord.' 

" For this appropriate selection of inscriptions, the parish is 
chiefly indebted to the former Rector, Rev. Dr. Hoffman. 
During his charge of the Church the large debt was paid off — 
the estimable ladies who have now so liberally remembered it, 
having at that time given |6500 to head the subscription. The 
sum given for the bells was about $10,000 ; with a fund addi- 
tional to pay the ringers forever. But the elder of the Misses 
Mcllvaine w^as not permitted to hear them, having been taken 
to her rest some two years ago. That the surviving sister may 
be spared for many years to listen to the sound of these Church- 
going bells, is the sincere desire and prayer of 

" A Member of St Mary's." 



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THE FIXEST PEAL IX AMEEICA. 

Brooklyn, IS". Y., 20 March, 1866. 
My Deae Sie — I was yesterday at Burlington with Mr. 
Upjohn, the architect, to look at the bells, &c., and I must con- 
gratulate you on having secured so beautiful a peal. The bells 
are beautifully made, of excellent tone and tune, and nothing 
could be better than the hanging. I do not hesitate to say, that 

1 think it the finest peal in this country. In regard to the 
ringing of them, Mr. Upjohn suggested, (as I proposed to you a 
few months since at Burlington,) a light iron frame to be placed 
in the tower, somewhere between the floor of the Church and 
the ceiling, with rings in it, to keep the ropes from swaying. 
All, including Brown and Jackson, the bell-ringers, coincided in 
the opinion that then they could be rung perfectly well from 
the floor of the Church. Mr. Upjohn is to make the plan of 
the frame, and Dr. Pugh will see to its being prepared immedi- 
ately. The chiming apparatus is to be arranged in a corner of 
the Vestry room. 

I hope to be with you on the ' opening day,' if it is not the 

2 April, Easter Monday, when no clergyman can leave his 
Parish. Would it not be well to postpone it, until everything 
is finished and in order, so that any visitors may see the whole 
thing complete "? The first of May would be a good day, and 
then people would be back in Burlington, and the whole thing 
might pass off with ecldt. However, I only throw out the sug- 
gestion. 

" Very sincerely yours, 

'^E. A. HOFF.AIAX.'" 

the bells placed IX THE CX'STODY OF THE OFFICEES OF 
ST. ^IARY^S PAPvISH. 

Easter Monday, April 2, 1866. 

The Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Mary's 
Church, Burlington, K. J. 

" Gextlemex' — More than two years ago, two ladies of your 
parish, anxious to have the Church free of debt, but from their 
natural unobtrusiveness of character, preferring not to be per- 
sonally known in any efforts which might be made to that end, 



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633 



desired me, on their behalf, to make a liberal subscriptiou to 
that object, and further directed me, if the movement should 
prove successful, to procure at their cost, and place in the tower 
of the Church, ^ A sweet chime of bells.' 

"The Eev. Mr. Hoffman, the then Rector of the parish, en- 
tered upon the project with much zeal, and through the liber- 
ality of the members of the Church, he finally succeeded in 
having the debt paid off and satisfied. 

"About Christmas, 1863, it was known that the debt would 
soon be cancelled, and Miss Margaret S. Mcllvaine and her 
sister, Miss Mary Mcllvaine, the ladies referred to, at once 
made provision for the purchase of the bells. A few weeks 
afterwards. Miss Margaret S. Mcllvaine departed this life, in 
the knowledge that this good work, which she and her sister had 
so much at heart, would be carried to a successful conclusion. 
When informed that the debt had been fully paid, a conference 
was had with the Rev. Mr. Hoffman, which resulted in giving 
the order to the well known bell founders, Messrs. Mears & Co., 
of London. Owing to unavoidable causes, the bells were not 
shipped from London, until the 5th of January last. They are 
now, however, safely lodged in the tower, and in the fulfillment 
of my trust, I have the pleasure of handing them over to the 
safe-keeping of the Officers of the Church. The bells have al- 
ready spoken for themselves and convinced us all, that they are 
just what was desired, ^ A sweet chime.' 

" The ladies, not willing that their gift should in any way 
add to the expenses of the Church, have provided an endow- 
ment fund, to meet all necessary charges attending the care and 
ringing of the bells. A few days ago, I received from Miss 
Mcllvaine, a certificate of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, 
for five thousand dollars of the convertible mortgage loan of 
1882, with a power to transfer. In a note accompanying this 
certificate. Miss Mcllvaine says : ^ You will of course transfer it 
to the officers of St. Mary's Church, in such manner as to secure 
it a permanent fund for the ringing of the bells.' 

" The necessary transfer has been made to the Church, and 
you will please find enclosed the new certificate of the loan. 



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The interest is 6 pr. ct., and is payable half yearly, on the 1st 
of January and July. 

" It is the wish of the donors, that this fund of §5000 be kept, 
for all time, securely invested, by yourselves and your successors 
in office as a trust, for the purposes intended, and that the 
interest which may accrue, from time to time, be applied solely 
to the care, preservation, necessary repairs and proper ringing 
for all the public services of your Church, of the peal of bells 
which they have now caused to be placed in its tower. 

"I am sure gentlemen you will, while holding official re- 
lations with the Church, see that the income from this invest- 
ment or from any change of investment that may hereafter be 
made, shall be applied to the purposes intended, and that you 
will adopt such measures as will serve to perpetuate in your 
successors this trust. 

" In thus closing my duties, I may add, that several English 
books on bells and bell ringing, will to-day, in the name of 
Miss Mcllvaine, be deposited in the Burlington Library ; and 
that I shall hand over to the Rev. Mr. Johnson, some of the 
letters and documents, incident to the purchase of the bells, to 
be preserved among the archives of the Church. 
Very Respectfully, 

Your Ob. St., 

James H. Castle.'^ 

eeception of the peal of bells. 
''St. Mary's Vestry Room, April 10th, 1866.— An adjourned 
meeting of the Vestry was held this evening. Present, Rev. 
William Allen Johnson, Rector; Charles Ellis, M. D., and 
Thomas Milnor, (Wardens), Samuel Rogers, Camille Baquet, 
LL. D., Wm. C. Myers, Charles S. Gauntt and George H. 
AYoolman. 

" The Rector stated that the special business of the meeting 
was to receive the gift of a Peal of Bells from Miss Mary 
Mcllvaine, in behalf of her deceased sister and herself. 

" They also presented the Parish a bond of the Schuylkill 
Navigation Co., Xo. 7726 for §5000, the interest of which was 



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635 



to be appropriated to the chiming, ringing, and keeping in re- 
pair, the bells. 

" On motion of Dr. Ellis, the Eector, Dr. Pugh and Mr. 
Milnor were appointed a committee to prepare suitable resolu- 
tions of thanks to Miss Mcllvaine, for her munificent gift, to 
report at a future meeting of the Vestry. On motion. Dr. Ellis 
was added to the committee. 

"On motion of Mr. Myers, a standing committee on bells was 
created, to consist of the Eector and Wardens.'^ 

THE THANKS OF THE VESTKY. 

"May 14th, 1866. — At a stated meeting of the Vestry, the 
Rector, on the part of the Committee to make a formal acknowl- 
edgment to Miss Mcllvaine for her generous gift of a peal of 
bells, reported, that it being understood that Miss Mcllvaine 
preferred an informal acknowledgment from the Rector, he had 
accordingly written a letter to her, in behalf of the Vestry, ex- 
pressing their thanks for her magnificent gift.'^ 

COMMUNICATION FEOM ST. BARNABAS' PARISH. 

" The following was received from the Rector, Wardens and 
Vestrymen of St. Barnabas' Parish : 

" To ihe Rector J Wardens, and Vestrymen of St. Mary^s Church: 
"The memorial of the Rector, Wardens, and Vestrymen of 
St. Barnabas' Church respectfully sheweth, 

" That it seems to them to be desirable that the lease of prop- 
erty for three years recently conveyed by St. Mary's to St. 
Barnabas' Vestry, should be extended without limit of time, or 
for ninety-nine years, from the following considerations : 

"Permanence of character as an independent Church with 
real estate sufficient for the purposes of its incorporation, seems 
essential to induce persons to assume the settled position of Par- 
ishioners. Consecration as a Protestant Episcopal Church is 
necessary to the completeness of its spiritual privileges — but to 
enjoy that benefit the Building and its appurtenances should 
belong to St. Barnabas', in order to their being conveyed in that 



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ceremony to the Ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese for the 
sole use and purposes of such consecration. 

" The carriage sheds and other improvements contemplated 
by St. Barnabas' Yestrj, could be erected without risk or loss to 
them, if a fee simple or ninety-nine years title were conveyed — 
but a short lease might subject such improvements to alienation 
and reversion to the landlord, without compensation to the parties 
erecting them. 

A proviso might be inserted in the Deed or Lease that if at 
any time the Church, Parsonage, or other Buildings, erected on 
ground given by St. Mary's Corporation should be alienated, to 
purposes other than those for which they were erected, such prop- 
erty in that case, should revert to St. Mary's Vestry. 
^^In behalf of St. Barnabas' Vestry, 

" EoBT. L. GoLDSBOROUGH, Rectov. 

" c. m. hornblower, 
^' Egbert S. In^n^es, 

" Wardens. 
George W. Aldrich, 
Wm. B. Price, 
Geo. a. Eogers, 
^' Wm. a. Goodher, 
J. Warren Newcomb, Jr., 

" Committee of Vestry, 
^'Burlington, N. J., May 12th, A. D. 1866." 
" On motion of Mr. Milnor, The Vestry agree to give to the 
^ Free Church of St. Barnabas ' a deed, in fee simple, for the 
property they now occupy, with addition of sixty feet east; and 
that a committee be appointed to prepare a Deed to submit to 
the next meeting of the Vestry." 

CANDIDATES FOR CHIMER. • 

^' On motion of Mr. Milnor, the Eector was requested to in- 
vite Prof. Haverman, and Ezekiel Allen, and to request them to 
appoint a third person, to examine the qualifications of the 
candidates applying for the position of ^ Chimer.' " 



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637 



SEYERAL IMPORTANT EVEXTS DURING THE GONVENTIOXAL, 

A^EAR. 

The Rev. William Allen Johnson, Rector, adds to his Paro- 
chial Report, May 15, 1866 : 

" The parish of St. Mary's, although blessed with peace and 
general prosperity during the past year, has lost by death an 
unusually large number of communicants, not however from any 
prevailing sickness. 

The Assistant, Rev. E. DePuy, was called away to take 
charge of a parish in Advent, and from that time until Easter 
the Rector was without help. 

His thanks are due to all the resident Clergy for their kind 
assistance on Sundays and holy days, at the Parish Church, and 
especially to Rev. Messrs. Smith and Hyde, without whose aid 
the Sunday services at St. Barnabas' Chapel could not have been 
maintained. The Rev. J. A. Spooner, of Edgewater, has also 
been usefully engaged in work within the limits of the parish, 
and presented two candidates for confirmation. He has also 
baptized several, included in this report. 

" With the full and free consent of all parties, it was thought 
best to divide this ancient parish, and let the Free Mission 
Chapel of St. Barnabas be the nucleus of a second Church. 

" This was accordingly done by the election of Wardens and 
Vestry, and the legal incorporation of the Free Church of St. 
Barnabas. 

The Vestry of St. Mary's have since generously made a gift 
to the new parish, not only of the Church building and school 
house of St. Barnabas, with the ground on which they stand, but 
of so much of the adjoining lot as will answer for a Parsonage 
and other Church uses. 

"The Vestry of St. Barnabas' have secured the efficient ser- 
vices of the Rev. R. L. Goldsborough as their Rector, and the 
new parish starts with every promise of vigorous life, and with 
the hearty ^ God-speed ' of the Mother Church. 

" There are some good deeds, which ^ so shine before men ' of 
their own light and beauty, that even humility cannot hide them. 
Of this sort is the gift of a peal of eight bells to St. Mary's 



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Church by two ladies of the parish, one since deceased. Miss 
Margaret S. and Miss Mary Mcllvaine, and Avhich it seems at 
this time fitting to acknowledge, that others may be stirred by 
the good example and moved to do the like. 

^^The peal of bells was given in memory of the Right Rev. 
G. W. Doane, second Bishop of New^ Jersey, and is the carrying 
out of one of his long -cherished wishes. Procured in England 
of the best founders, without regard to cost, they are believed to 
be unsurpassed by any in this country.'' 

ST. BARXABAS AN IXDEPENDEXT PARISH. 

The Rev. Robert L. Goldsborough, Rector, in his Parochial 
Report, May 15, 1866, says : 

" Having but recently taken charge of this Parish, I must 
refer you for statistical information with regard to it, to the 
report of the Rector of St. Mary's Parish, with which St. Bar- 
nabas' held the relation of a Chapel, until within a few weeks. 

St. Barnabas' is now an independent Parish, duly incorpo- 
rated, and applies at this session for admission to union with 
the Convention." 

BURLIXGTON COLLEGE AND ST. MAEY's HALL. 

^"At the close of the Academical year at St. Mary's Hall, I 
graduated twenty-five of the pupils, the largest class, I am told, 
since the establishment of the school. 

" The closing examinations at the Hall and at Burlington 
College demonstrated that the grade of scholarship and of Chris- 
tian culture, is of the highest character. The fidelity of the 
Rector, Principal, and other members of these Academical fam- 
ilies, commends the Institution to the affectionate confidence of 
the members of the Church in this and other Dioceses. If a 
son or daughter must leave the divinely appointed influences of 
home, these Christian schools, the perpetual memorial of their 
magnanimous founder, offer an attractive place for the education 
of mind and heart. 



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The numbers who flock to them demonstrate that the friends 
of Christian education appreciate them at their just value." — 
Episcopal Address, 1866. 

ELLWOOD p. HAXCOCK, MASTER OF THE CHIMES, 

" May 21, 1866. — At an adjourned meeting of the Yestry, the 
Rector reported that the trial of skill in chime ringing had been 
very fairly conducted ; and that the committee had decided in 
favor of Mr. Elhvood P. Hancock, reporting that the playing 
was very good by all the applicants at trial. 

" On motion the election of Chimer for the term of six months, 
at a salary of §200 per annum, was then proceeded with by 
ballot. Whereupon Ellwood P. Hancock was declared elected." 

BUILDINGS AND LOT DEEDED TO ST. BARNABAS. 

''At the same meeting, on motion of George H. Woolman, it 
was unanimously 

Resolved J That the Rector execute and attach the Corporate 
Seal thereto and deliver a Deed to ' The Rector, Wardens, and 
Vestrymen of the Free Church of St. Barnabas in Burlington,' 
for the Lot of Ground with the Buildings thereon, situate at 
the Xorth East corner of Broad and St. Mary^s Streets, contain- 
ing 110 feet in front on Broad Street, the East line to be at 
right angles with Broad Street, and to extend in depth along 
St. Mary's Street about 180 J- feet to the School House lot, 

''With the condition therein that they shall use said Premises 
for no other purpose than for the maintenance of Public Wor- 
ship, in accordance with the Laws and regulations governing 
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Xew Jersey, 

"With the privilege of erecting a Parsonage and making 
such improvements as may be needed on the Premises, the 
income thereof to be appropriated for the uses aforesaid, but in 
no way or manner is any Lien or mortgage to be created to pay 
for such improvements.'' 

THE VARIOUS SUMS GIVEN BY THE MISSES m'iLVAINE TO 

ST. mart's church. 
" Cost of the Peal of Bells, Endowment Fund, and subscrip- 
tion to the funds for the payment of the debts of the Church : 



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Gold. Currencv. 

''Draft for £880 §4,307 11 

at 50 per cent, premium . §6,460 66 

'' Draft for £66 18.9. at 50 per cent, premium.... 450 91 
Total, £946 18.9. 

''Duty on bells, 35 per cent. §1,564 50, at 50 per 

cent, premium 2,346 75 

" Freight to New York , 179 82 

" Freight to Burlington 63 91 



"Cost of Bells.. $9,502 05 

"Expenses attending the hanging bells in the 

church tower, &c., &c 1,021 14 

"Incidental expenses from July, 1863, to June, 

1866 , 109 50 



§10,632 69 

" Endowment Fund, for Ringing the Bells 5,000 00 

" Additional Gifts, to meet expenses 150 00 

§15,782 69 

"The Misses Mcllvaine's subscription to the 

Fund for payment of the debts of the Church, 6,500 00 

" Total §22,282 69 

Philadelphia, July 1, 1866." 



THOSE W^HO TOOK PART IX THE FIRST PEALING OF ST. 
MAPY's bells, CHRISTMAS EVE, 1866. 

" Ellwood P. Hancock, E. B. Grubb, Jr., Henry B. Grubb, 
Charles B. Hewitt, Edward L. Hewitt, William D. Hewitt, 
George W. Hewitt, Jr., Craig MofPett, Thomas Lee, J. Morti- 
mer Barclay, Charles M. Engle, Camille A. Baquet, Ledyard 
VanRensselaer, Henry H. Douglas, A. Lardner Brown, John 
W. Buckman, Hugh Morris^ George W. Caldwell, Rev. Wm. 
Allen Johnson." 



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641 



ST. BAEXABAS CHUECH COXSECEATED. 

The Rev. R. L. Golclsborough^ Rector of St. Barnabas Church, 
to the statistics in his Parochial Report of May, 1867, adds : 

"The Church was consecrated on the 16th of June, A, D. 
1866. 

"The whole debt was extinguished during the year, and 
previous to consecration. 

" The lot of ground given by St. Mary^s is enclosed by a neat 
fence. 

" The Sexton's Lodge is repaired and fitted for his residence; 
the Sunday School occupying the second story. 

"The Parish Priest was instituted on the loth July, 1866. 

" Three Confirmations were held during the conventional year. 

" St. Barnabas is now dependent, almost exclusively, on its own 
resources, and three-fourths of its parishioners being but of 
moderate circumstances, the Free Church Plan is as yet experi- 
mental . 

" The Envelope system, by which each baptized member is 
expected to oifer his oblations through the Sunday Ofiertory, 
has been adopted. 

"In number and in spiritual progress, the Church, we trust, 
is increasing encouragingly. 

" The Rector assists at St. Mary's daily services, and in the 
celebration of the Holy Communion on the Octaves.'' 

SALE OF CHUECH LAXD IX XEWAEK. 

"July 1st, 1867. — At a special meeting of the Yestry, Mr. 
Rogers offered the following : 

" Whereas, Richard E. Bull conveyed to St. Mary's Parish 
a lot of Land situate in the City of Newark, N. J., and the sum 
of Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars having been offered for the 
same ; therefore, 

^^Resolved, That the Rector execute and attach the Corporate 
Seal thereto, and deliver a Deed to The Evangelical United 
Brethren of the City of Xewark, Xew Jersey, for the aforesaid 
ground. 

" On motion, a Tote of Thanks was extended to Mr. Bull for 
his generous gift." 

2s 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



PERMANEXT FUND FOR THE PARISH SCHOOL. 

"July 8th, 1867. — At a meeting of the Vestry held this even- 
ing, the following was offered by the Rector, and on motion 
adopted : 

" Wi-iEEEAS, On January 19th, 1866, there was begun a 
system of quarterly collections for a Permanent Fund of the 
Parish School, to be deposited in the Burlington Savings Insti- 
tution, 

" Whereas, These collections, with interest, now amount to 
1113.38; and, 

" Whereas, The Vestry have voted to add the sum of §500, 
obtained from the sale of a lot of Land in Newark, to the 
Permanent Fund ; therefore, 

^'Resolved, That the Treasurer be directed to invest the 
amount now on hand to his best advantage, the interest to go 
annually to the support of the School, and that the Treasurer of 
the Parish School have full power to invest the collections here- 
after obtained, the interest to accrue for the increase of the 
Fund, until otherwise ordered by the Vestry." 

THE DEATH OF ME. EDW^AED B. GRUBB. 

" September 23, 1867. — A special meeting of the Vestry was 
held this evening at the call of the Rector. 

The Committee appointed to prepare Resolutions on the 
death of Mr. Grubb, reported as follows: 

''The Rector, Yv^ardens and Vestrymen of St. Mary's Church, 
Burlington, having learned that God has taken out of this 
world the soul of our deceased brother, Edward B. Grubb — for 
many years an active member of the Vestry and a faithful 
steward in the discharge of his duties — ■ 

'^Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Grubb this body has ex- 
perienced a loss which it will be hard to supply, and would 
hereby express their deep sense of his most valuable services to 
the Parish during his official connection with it. As Treasurer 
of the Church, and the wise financial counsellor to whom all 
deferred — his firmness and fidelity to sound principles, his 
accuracy and promptness, aided greatly in carrying it through a 
crisis in its history which could scarcely have been successfully 
passed without his support. 

"Resolved, That while they cherish his beloved memory as 
the judicious friend, the Christian gentlemeu, and fellow-member 



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with themselves of the Church of Christ ; they express their 
cordial sympathy with the bereaved ones of his family and their 
full trust that God having accepted him ^ in the Beloved/ has 
taken his soul in the sweet resting place of his saints^ and 
refreshed it with the light of his countenance, 

"Besolved, That this be entered on the books of the Vestry 
and a copy sent to the family of Mr. Grubby and published in 
the Neiv Jersey Dollar Newspaper" and Gospel Messe7iger.^' 

THE DEATH OP THOMAS MILNOR. 

^'Treasurer's office, March 17th, 1868. — A special meeting of 
the Vestry was held this evening. The Rector stated that the 
object of calling the meeting was to take action with regard to 
the death of Thomas Milnor, Senior Warden of this Parish. 
The following was offered and unanimously adopted : 
Whereas, This Vestry have learned with deep grief of the 
death of Thomas Milnor, Esqr., Senior Warden of St. Mary's 
Church : 

Resolved, That while we bow in submission to the Will of 
God, we wish to express our unfeigned sorrow at the loss of one 
who for twenty-two years served the Parish faithfully in the 
office of Warden ; and to offer our heartfelt sympathies to the 
members of his bereaved household. 

Resolved, That his memory should be ever cherished in St. 
Mary's Church for the fidelity shown to her best interests ; and 
especially, when for long years as Treasurer, in times of diffi- 
culty and danger, his unfailing liberality sustained the Parish, 
and carried it safely through many emergencies and trials. 

" Resolved, That we keep in lasting honor the memory of one, 
who by his upright walk as a man and a citizen, his courtesy 
and benevolence, showed the influence of that Christian Faith 
which was his confidence through life, and his comfort at the 
hour of death. 

Resolved, That the Vestry as a body attend the funeral of 
their deceased brother and associate, and that a copy of these 
resolutions be sent to the family of Mr. Milnor, and published 
in the Burlington Gazette and Gospel Messenger T 

LETTER from RICHARD E. BULL. 

May 13th. — At a stated meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary's 
Parish, held this evening, the following from Mr. Richard 
E. Bull, formerly a member of this Parish, now residing in 
England, ^vas ordered to be entered upon the minutes : 



HISTOEY OF THE CHURCH 



ElvertoOj York, Feast of the Annunciation, 

" March 25, 1868. 
Rev'd Sir and Gentlemen — The result of the investiga- 
tion respecting the Deed was unlooked for, yet withal so grateful 
to my feelings, that the only regret I feel is that it was not 
worth $5000. 

^' The application of the money is, also, most satisfactory ; and 
I am truly thankful to Almighty God,, by whose Providential 
guidance so excellent an arrangement has been made. 

Burlington, both in its spiritual and temporal interests, will 
command my best wishes for its future prosperity. 

^' Gentlemen, I thank you for your kind testimonial, which. I 
assure you will ever call forth my grateful remembrance. 
I am, Rev'd Sir and Gentlemen, 

^' Your obliged and ob't servant, 

" Richard Ellis Bull. 
To the Hector J Church Waixlens and Vestrymen of St. Mary^'s 
Church, Burlington^ 

THE BISHOP OF ALBANY. 

January 14th, 1869. — At a special meeting of the Vestry, 
Dr.Pugh offered the following, which was unanimously adopted: 
" In view of the election of our former Rector, the Rev. AVil- 
liam Croswell Doane, S. T. D., as first Bishop of the Diocese of 
Albany, we, the representatives of the Parish in which so much 
of his life was spent, and to the Rectorship of which he was 
called as the successor of his honoured Father, desire to place 
on record our gratification at this result ; and to transmit to the 
Bishop-elect our most cordial congratulations, as well as to ex- 
press afresh our recognition of his sound learning, eminent abil- 
ities, and untiring devotion to all the duties of his priestly 
office, which we believe to be the best qualifications for the 
work of a Bishop in the Church of God." 

A missionary guild organized. 
^^A Ladies' society has been organized to work for the cause 
of Missions, under the title of the ^ Church Missionary Guild of 
St. Mary's Parish.' It has already done a good work, and 
promises in the future to be useful in many ways." — Parochml 
Report, 1869. 



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645 



SCHOLAESHIPS FOUIS'DED. 

I report, also^ with grateful emotions, the donation from an 
unknown benefactor, through his Excellency Marcus L. Ward, 
Governor of New Jersey, of two thousand dollars, to found two 
Scholarships, one in Burlington College, and one in St. Mary\s 
Hall. These foundations are to be known as the ^ Marcus L . 
Ward Scholarship,' and the ^ Archibald Shaw Odenheimer 
Scholarship.' 

As the generous lady, who has endowed these Scholarships, 
is unknown, I desire, for myself and the Trustees of the Insti- 
tutions, to make this public record of our grateful appreciation 
of her liberality, and of her most acceptable contribution to the 
cause of Christian education. 

^' Our thanks are also due to the late Governor of New Jersey, 
who has forwarded the intentions of the donor, and manifested 
his interest in the Institutions, of the Trustees of which he is ex 
officio the President." — Episcopal Address, 1869. 

LEGACY FEOM MES. EOBAEDET. 

"July 30th, 1869. — At a special meeting of the Vestry, the 
Rector stated that the object of calling the meeting was to re- 
ceive the legacy of Mrs. Sarah C. Robardet.f The following 
was adopted : 

" Wheeeas, Mrs. Sarah C. Robardet, of this city, died May 
19th, 1868, and by the Codicil to her AVill, dated Nov. 20th, 
1866, duly proved, and recorded in June, 1868, devised to the 
Rector, Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Mary's Church, $5000, 
payable in one year after her decease, in trust, towards erecting 
a Parsonage and furnishing the same, and the executors, John 
D. Abercrombie and Franklin Woolman, propose to pay the 
same by assigning to us good mortgages to the amount of $5000, 
upon receiving the interest due on them to 19 of May, inclusive, 
and also the government tax on legacies of $300, which has to 



t "May 21st, 1868, — At a meeting of the Yestry, the Rector offered the 
following : 

"Whereas, it has pleased Almighty God to take out of this world the 
soul of our deceased sister, Mrs. Sarah C. Kobardet, she having arrived at the 
age of :93 years, and being the oldest member of the Parish — therefore, 

"Besoked, That as a mark of respect, the Vestry attend the funeral in a 
body." 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



be paid by us ; and whereas, it is desirable to keep said legacy 
to the full amount of $5000, on motion it was 

Besolved, That the Treasurer pay out of the funds of the 
Church the said government tax of $300, and also the interest 
due to May 19th, inclusive, on said mortgages, to be repaid 
back when he receives the interest on the same.'^ 

RESIGNATION OF THE REV. WILLIAM ALLEX JOHXSOX. 

^* House of Samuel Rogers, (Senior Warden) March 9th,. 
1870. — A stated meeting of the Yestry was held at 8 P. 
" The Rector retiring, Mr. Rogers took the chair. 
" The following, from the Rector, was read : 

Burlington, March 9th, 1870. 

To the Wardens and Vestrymen of St. Ifary^s Parish: 

^' Gextle3IEX — I feel it to be a necessity (and a most painful 
one to me) to come to a decision and put an end to a struggle 
which has been agitating my mind for some time past. 

" I have been led to believe it to be my duty to retire from 
the charge of St. Mary^s Parish, and think it due to you and to 
the Parish, to notify you thus in advance in offering my resig- 
nation, to take effect on the 1st of July next. 

" I deeply feel the serious responsibility I incur in voluntarily 
withdrawing from a field of useful labor for the Master, in which 
His Providence has placed me. 

" The very fact that to take this course is so great a trial to 
myself and my family, induces the probabilities of its being a 
duty. 

Many reasons always concur in leading one to such a decision. 
" The more pressing and decisive ones are such as these : 
" While not at all ill, nor wishing to assign my health as the 
reason, doing full clerical duty as I have all along done — I yet 
feel, after five years' work in this large and laborious Parish, a 
sense of physical and mental exhaustion, a craving for entire 
rest and change of life, which is something to be experienced 
rather than described. These feelings are not transient. They 
have been steadily growing in power, and I believe T ought to 
heed them as a voice of Providence, warning me that my system 
is overtasked here, and must be relieved from the strain. 



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Then my children are constitutionally delicate. The heat 
of the summer, in all the plain country along the coast, is ex- 
cessive and debilitating. The happiness and usefulness of all 
their future lives would probably be influenced by a removal to 
a more bracing climate in a hilly country, and to a more com- 
pletely rural life. 

I have endeavored to meet their case by sending them away 
every summer, for a long period, but this entails great expense 
and separation of the household, which becomes more undesira- 
ble as the children advance in age. 

These are the controlling considerations which have led me 
to this decision. I desire it to be considered final. 

My heart saddens at the Avord, for I have learned to love 
the place, and have now lived long enough among you to form 
strong and Vv^arm attachments here, which will last as long as 
life endures. 

From the Parish I have all along met with increasing kind- 
ness. To the best of my knowledge and ability I have honestly 
labored for its good, and for the spiritual benefit of its members. 

With what forbearance and indulgence my willing but most 
imperfect services have been received, I appreciate most fully. 
It is a satisfaction to know that I shall leave it peaceful and 
united, and although sadly swept of prominent members by the 
hand of death during my ministry — still in a prosperous con- 
dition. 

Wherever my lot may be cast, ' St. Mary's, Burlington,' 
will be a sacred name ; never to be forgotten, in memory, or 
prayer. 

" That the Great Shepherd of the sheep may over-rule all for 
good, and lead you on in the old paths of faith and order which, 
in these days of novelties and distraction, alone promise peace 
and safety to the soul, is the sincere prayer of your attached 
Rector, 

^'Wm. Allex Johxsox." 

letter ox the eesigxatiox of the rey. mr. johxsox. 

"House of Dr. Pugh, (Junior Warden) April 16th, 1870.— 
A special meeting of the Yestry was held. 



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" The Committee on resignation of the Rector^ presented the 
following letter^ which was ordered to be placed on the minutes : 
" To Rev. Wm. Allen Johnson : 

" Rey. and Dear Sir — In enclosing to you the resolution of 
the Testry, accepting your resignation as Rector of St. Mary's 
Parish, we desire to express to you, on behalf of the Wardens 
and Vestrymen, the sincere regret and sorrow we feel that such 
a step is necessary. 

"The reasons that have influenced your judgment and in- 
duced you to take this course, are cogent, and, to a conscientious 
mind, must be final, so that we" feel that any attempt to induce 
you to change your determination would be neither kind nor 
successful. 

" In accepting your resignation, however, it is due to you to 
say that your labors in our Parish have been most acceptable, 
and increasingly so as each year has passed, and that your steady 
mental growth, your steadily increasing power of presenting 
truth, betokening more than usual promise, and your consistent 
Christian life and character, the more and more evident and 
valued as you have more and more gone in and out among us, 
in the midst both of our joys and sorrows, have all led us to 
hope that our relations of Priest and people might be of long 
continuance. But in the discipline of life and in the order of 
Providence, it is one of the frequent lessons we all have to learn, 
that loving and cherished relations are liable to be broken up. 
So that in parting from you, our beloved Rector, we can but 
feel that we are all in the hands of God, and that he knows 
what is best, both for you and for us. 

" \\ e can but assure you that wherever you may go, you will 
bear with you the love and prayers of the people of St. Mary's, 
and the hope that you and yours may be blessed with full health 
and happiness, and be enabled ere long to fill some other part 
of the Lord's Vineyard with a love and labor such as we have 
shared. 

" Very faithfully your friends, 

"Samuel Rogers, ^ 

" J. Howard Pugh, V Committee. 

" Fra^skliis' Gauxtt, J 



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DEATH OF MISS m'iLVAINE. 

It was my melancholy privilege to officiate^ on the 10th of 
December last, at the funeral of Miss Mary Mcllvaine, the sur- 
vivor of two sisters, whose gift of the peal of bells to St. Mary^s 
Church, and other noble benefactions, have been mentioned in 
previous reports. She sleeps, the last of the old name in Bur- 
lington, among her kindred, under the shadow of the ancient 
Church — ^ Remember them, O my God, for good, according to 
all they have done for this people.' 

" In closing my ministry in this Parish, I wish once more to 
express my thanks to the Reverend clergy who have so cordially 
rendered their assistance in the Sunday services, and other times 
of need. The pain of the severance of those ties of love which 
bind the pastor to his flock, is heightened in this case by parting 
from those who have been, indeed, ^brethren beloved.' — Paro- 
chial Report, 1870. 

THE CONVOCATION OF BURLINGTON, ORGANIZED. 

" Immediately on the adjournment of the last Annual Con- 
vention,'' writes Bishop Odenheimer in his Episcopal Address 
for 1871 — ^^at w^hich a Canon was passed dividing the twenty- 
one counties of the Diocese into three Convocations, I proceeded 
to discharge the pleasant duty imposed on me by the Canon, of 
organizing the Convocations and appointing the respective Deans. 

" On the 9th of May, 1870, in St. Mary's Church, Burling- 
ton, the Burlington Convocation was organized, by the appoint- 
ment as Dean of the Rev. J. F. Garrison, M. D., Rector of St. 
Paul's Parish, Camden, and by the election of the Rev. DeW. C. 
Byllesby, Rector of Trinity Parish, Mount Holly, as Secretary. 

"The Convocation embraces the counties of Burlington, 
Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape 
May, containing a population of 206,341, with 29 Churches." 

ST. mart's hall ENLARGED. 

" St. Mary's Plall has enlarged her buildings, and is ready to 
receive more pupils than ever. The elevated character of the 
training, for body, soul, and spirit, which this Academical 



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Home for the Daughters of the Church continues to dispense, is 
on record in the living examples of the Graduates of St. Mary's 
Hall, scattered over every State of the Union. The personal 
devotion of the Principal, Vice-Principal, and other coadjutors 
to the best interests of the pupils in all departments, is un- 
wearied and most conscientious. 

Burlington College — the twin institution in the Diocese for 
Christian education — solicits the interest of all who desire for 
the sons of the Church a thorough academical training in union 
with the purity and loving discipline of a cheerful Christian 
and Church Household.'' — Episcopal Address, 1870. 

A MEMOEIAL ENDOWMENT IX BUELINGTON COLLEGE. 

In connection with the subject of Christian education, I ask 
the attention of the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese to the fol- 
lowing appeal for the perpetuity of Burlington College : 

^ The establishnaent of Burlington College, upon a firm 
financial basis, is a duty which has been too long neglected by 
its friends. 

* It is proposed to devote the ^ Bishop Doane Monument 
Fund ' to the endowment of the Professorship of Ancient Lan- 
guages, and to tender the Chair to the Rev. Professor Marcus 
F. Hyde, the incumbent since the foundation of the College. 
By this memorial, the perpetuity of this institution will be 
guaranteed, its usefulness and influence increased, its standard 
of scholarship maintained, and an important advance will be 
made toward the position which it was designed to occupy, and 
to which it is entitled. 

' The memory of its founder and first President cannot be 
more affectionately honored, or his influence more appropriately 
perpetuated, than by thus associating with his name, the first 
endowment of the College, whose interests were so near his heart, 
and with which he was so entirely identified. 

" ^ The cordial and practical approval of this project, by those 
of the Alumni to whom it has already been communicated, 
warrants confidence in its speedy accomplishment. Your aid 
and influence are respectfully requested in the attainment of this 
object. 



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651 



" ' Contributors to the fund, for the endowment of the Bishop 
Doane Professorship of Ancient Languages in Burlington Col- 
lege, can address communications to any one of the undersigned, 
who were appointed a committee on the organization of the 
Alumni, at the last meeting of the Board of Trustees : 
^^^Wm. Ceoswell Doane, 

" ' Class of 1850, Albany, N. Y. 
^^^Geoege M. Miller, 

" ' Class of 1850, 18 Wall St., N. Y. 
^ C. Willing Littell, 
' Class of 1852, 520 Walnut St., Phila. 
" ^ Edward B. Grubb, 

" ' Class of 1860, Burlington, N. J. 
" ^Alumni and Committee of the Trustees.^ 
" The efforts of the Committee of the Board of Trustees of 
Burlington College, N. J., to endow the Professorship of An- 
cient Languages in the Institution, are worthy of the generous 
co-operation of the Alumni, and of all the other friends of the 
College and its illustrious founder. Bishop Doane. For what it 
has done, and, if funds be supplied, it stands pledged to do, in 
the thorough training of the young, the College is worthy of the 
proposed endowment. I bespeak a liberal response to the ap- 
plication of the Committee from all who have enjoyed the benefits 
of the College ; from all who bear good will to the memory of 
the dead, and who have at heart the promotion of sound Christian 
education and exact scholarship. 

'^W. H. Odenheimer, 

Bishop of New Jersey. 
''Burlington, N, J., Sept, 10th, A. D. 1869.'^ 

RULES CONCERNING THE BELLS. 

''Residence of Samuel Rogers, (Senior Yv^arden,) June 24th, 
1870. An adjourned meeting of the Vestry was held this even- 
ing. The Rector presented the following 

" Rules conGerninif the Bells. 

" 1. The Rector and Wardens shall constitute a permanent 
committee on the bells, to whom all disputes and doubtful points 
are to be referred. 



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2. All ringing and chiming shall be under the direction of 
a Master of the Chimes, to be elected by the Vestry. 

3. If a company of ringers be formed, they shall establish 
their own rules or by-laws by which they shall be governed, 
subject to the approval of the Bell Committee. 

'^4. They shall ring a peal on Christmas and New Year's 
eves at midnight, on Easter morning, on the 4th of July, and 
on other occasions, with the permission of the Bell Committee.':? 

" 0/ the Master of the CJiimes. 

" 5. It shall be his duty to chime at an early hour on Christ- 
mas and Easter-Day if there be no pealing, and on the 4th of 
July and 22d of February, on Sundays at 8 o'clock, and before 
every service, on all Holy Days and days when the Holy Com- 
munion is administered, before morning service, and before all 
special services appointed by the Rector as directed, and at 
funerals, as hereafter specified. 

^^When there is a Sermon or Communion, the large bell 
shall be tolled after chiming, followed by the Priest's Bell. If 
not, it shall be omitted. If it be desired to have the bells 
muffled, the Chimer shall be allowed to charge $2 for the extra 
labor. If it be desired to have them chimed for a wedding, §5 
shall be theChimer's fee ; if pealed, |10." 

''Of the Passing Bell. 
'' 6. The passing bell shall be rung for at least fifteen minutes 
by the Chimer or Sexton, when the soul of any baptized mem- 
ber of the Church is passing out of this world, that Christian 
people may offer up their prayers to God in its behalf in the 
hour of extremity, but only by the express orders of the Rector." 

''Of Funerals. 

" 7. At every funeral in the Church Yard, a bell shall be 
tolled by the Sexton one hour before, and as the funeral ap- 
proaches the Church. For all communicants of the Church, 
three or more bells shall be tolled by the Chimer, but for none 
others. The Dirge after the funeral, shall be a privilege be- 
longing only to communicants, and to baptized persons under 
sixteen years of age. Doubtful cases and apparent exceptions, 
to be referred to tlie Bell Committee. 

'^ 8. Upon the death of the Bishop of the Diocese, or the 
Rector of the Parish, the large bell shall be tolled at least one 
hour. Upon the death of any other officer of the Church, one 
of the other bells, at least fifteen minutes. 

" 9. The bells shall be tolled annually between the hours of 
12 and 1 p. M., on the 27th of April, the anniversary of the 
death of Bishop Doane, to whose memory they are dedicated. 



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10. The SextOD, under the orders of the Rector and Master of 
the Chimes, shall ring a change at least fifteen minutes before 
each daily service, and strike two bells. 

''11. The use of the bells is to be confined strictly to ecclesi- 
astical purposes, with the exceptions above noted ; but they may 
be rung for fires, with the consent of any officer of the Church, 
but for no political or secular matters, or marriages elsewhere 
than in Church, unless by a unanimous vote of the Yestry and 
the consent of the Eector. 

" On motion, the rules were adopted by sections, and then 
adopted as a whole, and a copy of them ordered to be placed in 
the Porch of the Church.^' 

THE rector's proposal TO THE DIOCESE ENDORSED. 

At the same Yestry-meeting, (June 24th) on motion of G. H= 
Wool man, it was 

Besohed, That this Yestry approve and endorse the amend- 
ment offered by our Rector, the Rev. W. A. Johnson, at the 
last meeting of the Diocesan Convention, requiring Deputies to 
the Convention to be communicants of the Church. 

THE RET. GEORCiE 3I0RGAX HILLS ELECTED RECTOR OF ST. 
MARY^S PARISH. 

Residence of Samuel Rogers, August 3d, 1870. — A special 
meeting of the Yestry was held in the evening at the call of the 
Wardens — S. Rogers, in the chair. 

On motion of Dr. Gauntt, the Yestry proceeded to the elec- 
tion of a Rector. 

Dr. Pugh nominated the Rev. George Morgan Hills, Rector 
of St. PauFs Church, Syracuse, in the Diocese of Central New 
York. A ballot was ordered, whereupon the Rev. George 
Morgan Hills received the votes of all the Yestry present, and 
was declared elected Rector of this Parish. 

On motion, the Rector's salary was fixed at §2500 per annum y 
in addition to the use of the Parsonage, and the revenue of the 
Talbot lots. 

Drs. Pugh and Gauntt, and Gen. Grubb, were appointed a 
committee to notify the Rev. Mr. Hills of his election ; Avhich 



t These rules, handsomely engross&clin print, ^vitli a viyneltz of a. bell, are- 
framed, and hanging in the South Porch. 



654 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



they did, in person, at the residence of Gen. Grubb, where Mr. 
Hills was, at that time, visiting ; he having preached in St. 
Mary's and St. Barnabas' Churches the Sunday previous, on the 
invitation of Bishop Odenheimer. 

Mr. Hills accepted the call on the 9th of August, and entered 
upon the duties of the Rectorship, September 4th, 1870. f 



EXAMINING CHAPLAINS. 

On the 28th of September, 1870, Bishop Odenheimer ap- 
pointed the Rev. George Morgan Hills an Examining Chap- 
lain ; thus completing the six, for the Diocese — those before 
appointed being the Rev. R. M. Abercrombie, D. D., the Rev= 
Joseph F. Garrison, M. D., the Rev. Robert N. Merritt, the 
Rev. George Z. Gray, and the Rev. Christopher W. KnaufP. J 

On the 7th of November following, this College of Chaplains 
met at the rectory of St. Paul's Church, Rah way — w^hen the 
Rev. Dr. Abercrombie w^as chosen President, and the Rev. 
Mr. Gray, Secretary. The three departments of ecclesiastical 
study, canonically required, were apportioned as follows : 

The Books of Holy Scripture, Hebrew, ) Eev. Robert N. Merritt, 
Greek, and Latin, / Rev. G-eorge Z. Gray. 

The Evidences of Christianity, and Sys- ) Rev. R. M. Abercrombie, D.D., 
tematic Divinity, / Rev. Christopher W. Knaiifi'. 

Clinrd^mstoTj EceleA^^tM Polity | j, j p Garrison, M. D, 
^ISl^'nT^TSl Sieh! I George Morgan Hills.' 



THE DIVINITY DEPARTMENT OP BURLINGTON COLLEGE. 

On Thanksgiving day, November 24th, 1870, the service ap- 
pointed for the festival having been said in St. Mary's Church 



f George Morgan Hills, the second son of Horace Hills, was born in the 
village (now city) of Auburn, N. Y., October 10th, 1825; graduated at Trinity 
College, Hartford, Conn., August 5th, 1847 ; proceeded M. A., after three 
years' study in Divinity ; was ordered Deacon in Trinity Church, Buffalo, 
N. Y., September 22d, 1850, by Bishop DeLancey, and took charge of Grace 
Church, Lyons, N. Y. ; was advanced to the Priesthood in Trinity Church, 
Geneva, N. Y., September 21st, 1851, by Bishop DeLancey ; was Rector of 
Trinity Church, Watertown, N. Y., from July 17th, 1853, until May 1st, 
1857 ; and, from that date, of St. Paul's, Syracuse, N, Y., until he entered 
upon the Rectorshij) of St. Mary's Parish, Burlington. 

X This was a year before the Canon creating the office of Examining Chap- 
lains, was enacted by the General Convention. 



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655 



— at which the Rector preached, and the Bishop celebrated the 
Holy Communion — Bishop Odeoheimer invited the Clergy to 
Riverside ; and, after conference, arranged, for the revival of 
the Divinity Department of Burlington College, as follows : 
The E.t. Rev. Wm. H. Odenheimer, D. D., Lecturer on Chris- 
tian Ethics and Canon Law ; the Rev. Charles T. Kellogg, Li- 
structor in Ecclesiatical History and Liturgies ; the Rev. Elvin 
K. Smith, Instructor in Dogmatic Theology ; the Rev. Marcus 
F. Hyde, D. D., Instructor in Sacred Criticism and Patristics ; 
the Rev. William S. Walker, D. D., Lecturer on Oriental and 
Biblical Literature ; the Rev. George Morgan Hills, Lecturer 
on Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, f 

INSTITUTION OP THE EECTOK. 

On the second Sunday in Advent, December 4th, 1870, the 
Bishop of New Jersey instituted the Rev. Geo. Morgan Hills 
into the Rectorship of St. Mary's Parish. 

The day was fair and balmy, one of those Indian-summer 
days which yet linger with us, and cause us to fancy ourselves still 
in October. A fresh blown rose, growing in the open air, was 
plucked on the way to Church. 

The chimes w^ere playing the old tune of St. Michael's as we 
entered the sacred edifice, and one could almost hear the words 
so long wedded to that tune, " O praise ye the Lord, prepare 
your glad voice.'' 

Besides the Bishop and Rector-elect, the Clergy present were, 
the Rev, Thomas F. Davies, Rector of St. Peter's Church, 
Philadelphia ; the Rev. Elvin K. Smith, principal of St. Mary's 
Hall ; the Rev. Charles T, Kellogg, Rector of Burlington Col- 

t "As we have a Theological Department of Burlington College, which, in 
past days as now, has done, and is doing, good service to the Church, in the 
training of fit men for the sacred ministry, I wish that specific collections for 
the education of Candidates for Orders might be made and applied to found 
and maintain Theological Scholarships in Burlington College. There is one 
scholarship already existing that bears the honored name of ' Wallace,' the 
pious gift of a faithful daughter of the Church, who now rests from her labors. 
Many young men now in the ministry have been aided by this faithful be- 
quest ; and if I had larger sums at command, the work of Christian Church 
Theological training would be enlarged, to the great benefit of the Church in 
this Diocese." — Episcopal Address, 1871. 



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HISTOHY OF THE CHURCH 



lege; and the Rev. Marcus F. Hyde, D. D., professor of Ancient 
Languages, in the same. 

The Wardens, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and J. Howard Pugh, 
M. D., were stationed on the right and left of the Rector-elect, 
at the foot of the choir-steps ; the Senior Warden presenting the 
keys of the Church to the new incumbent. 

The Bishop preached on the text, There was loar in Heaven/^ 
eto.y Rev. xii 7. Before entering upon the subject proper, the 
preacher addressed the newly instituted rector and his flock in 
these words ; 

" I congratulate you, my reverend brother, in taking spiritual 
charge of a congregation, who, having enjoyed the ministry of a 
succession of able and devoted pastors have been well trained 
in the principles of respect for the sacred ministry, and who will 
manifest their training by following with a ready mind your 
official instructions, and by continually increasing in their prac- 
tical exhibition of love for yourself and your family. I con- 
gratulate you, the congregation of St. Mary's Parish, in having 
secured for your priest and rector, a minister of God whose 
success in the pastoral work is known to the Church at large ; 
and who comes with all the experience of his pastoral life to 
devote himself, body, soul, and spirit, to the spiritual edification 
of yourselves and your children. And I may be allowed to add 
that as the Bishop of this Diocese, I may be congratulated on 
securing for my clerical family one who, years ago, when he was 
a member of the Diocese of the first Bishop of ^Yestern New 
York — that model of a Christain prelate, the now sainted 
DeLancey — won my respect and love. It seems to me but a 
few days ago that I went to Western New York to make a 
visitation of some of the parishes,t in obedience to the wish of 
the Bishop, whose health was failing, and for whom my work 
of love seemed but the ^ coming beforehand to anoint his body 
to the burying.' j As I passed through the churches, confirm- 
ing and preaching, I came to a parish where I was received 
witli generous hearted hospitality by the rector and his house- 
hold, and where the signs of prosperity, temporal and spiritual, 
abounding in the parish, made me feel that I was in a centre of 
vigorous Church life and work. In the Providence of God, the 

t In September, 1864, 

i Bishop DeLancey died AjDril 5th, 1865. 



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657 



good priest of that parish is this clay your iiLStittited rector,t 
and one of the clergy of Xew Jersey. This is indeed an aus- 
picious day for all of ns ; and ^vhilst I bless you all, and bid 
you God-speed, I heartily pray that the Holy Spirit may bind 
all hearts together as the heart of one man, in unity, peace, and 
charity, and fill ns with godly zeal for the edification of the 
Faith and Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Lord, the Good Shep- 
herd and Bishop of our souls." 

The large congregation, including the teachers and pupils of 
St. Mary's Hall and Burlington College, remained, after the 
Holy Communion was concluded, to add their bidding of God- 
speed,'' to that of the Wardens and Vestrymen. 

At 4 p. M., the Church was again filled, when the Rector read 
Evening Prayer, and a sermon was preached by the Rev. 
Thomas F. Davies ; the Rt. Rev. the Bishop pronouncing the 
Absolution, and giving the Blessing of Peace. 

AX ALMS CHEST. 

On the 21st of March, 187i, an alms chest, of handsome 
design and finish, was affixed on the right side, within the door 
of entrance J to the south transept of the Church. So far as 
can be ascertained, no such article had ever been, either in the 
old Church, or the new, although there had long been one at 
St. Barnabas'. 

AX ALTAR CEOSS. 

On Easter Even, April 8th, 1871, there was placed upon the 
altar of St. Mary's Church, a foliated altar-cross, (valued at 
§100,) of Italian statuary marble — three feet and a-half in height, 
including its base — the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ellis, wife of 
Charles Ellis, M. D., in memory of a departed relative, a com- 
municant of the parish. With great good taste, there is no 
inscription on this sacred ornament. 

7 On Monday in AVhitsun-week, May 29tli, 1871, after Divine Service" was 
'•'Ended in the fforenoon," in compliance -with the conditions of the deed of 
John Talbot, made July 13th, 1724, (see page 183,) the rector "pnblickly 
before the Congregation read the thirty-nine Articles in the Book of Common 
prayer.". 

i II Kings, xii 9. 

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THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE PARISH. 

^' The Parish is entirely free from debt, and its finances are 
conducted with an efficiency and promptness worthy of the 
highest commendation." — Parochial Report, May, 1871. 

CLOSE OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH ACADEMIC YEAR. 

On Tuesday, the 11th of July, 1871, the closing exercises of 
the 25th academic year were held in Burlington College. After 
Divine Service in the new chapel — a room much larger and 
better furnished than the one formerly used for this purpose — 
the examinations took place, lasting from 8.30 A. M. until 2 p.m. 

At 2J p. M. the announcement of Standing, and Form promo- 
tions, was made by the Rector. Heads of Forms were declared 
as follows : pnmz*; Masters John Dows Hills, Eugene Jeffrey 
Babcock, Henry George Wilson, George Sumner Chipman, 
Thomas Kingsbury Benton, George Heathcote Hills. 

The candidates for advancement were then called forward and 
presented by the Rector to the Rt. Rev. President, who addressed 
them briefly ; and, with his blessing, admitted them to their 
advanced positions. 

Handsome copies of Freund's Leverett's Latin Lexicon, were 
presented to Masters John Dows Hills and Eugene Jeffrey Bab- 
cock, for the highest general rank, cum honore. 

On withdrawing to the refectory, three long tables were 
filled with students and invited guests ; and after dinner, at the 
call of the Bishop, speeches were made by the Rev. James W. 
Bradin. and the Rev. Hobart Chetwood, ex-rectors of the Col- 
lege ; and the Rev. George Morgan Hills, rector of St. Mary's 
Parish. 

At the alumni meeting, resolutions were adopted looking to 
the endowment of Professorships. The Rev. Geo. Morgan 
Hills and Mr. Geo. McClellan Fisk, headmaster of the Col- 
lege, were elected honorary members of the Associate Alumni. 

In the evening, an oration of great force and leauty was 



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pronounced before the alumni by C. Willing Littell, Esq., of 
Philadelphia f 

THE EECTOE EECEIYES THE HONOEARY DOCTOEATE. 

The Rev. Dr. Jackson to the Eev. Dr. Bills. 

"Trinity College, July 14th, 1871. 
Kev. George Morgan Hills, D. D., 

" Burlington, J. 
"My Deae Doctoe — It gives me sincere pleasure to be 
-able to inform you officially, that Trinity College, yesterday, 
at its commencement, conferred on you the honorary degree of 
Doctoe of Diyixity. I tried to accomplish this at Hobart; j 
but, now, I am much better satisfied that you should receive it 
from your Alma Mater. 

" I remain, my dear Doctor, 
" Faithfully yours, 

"A. Jacksox, 
President of Trinity College 

commexcement at ST. maey's hall. 

The commencements at St. Mary's Hall have been growing 
an interest, annually, from the foundation of the Institution to 
the present time. 

During the three days next preceding, the annual examina- 
tions are held under the careful attention of the Rt. Rev. the 
Bishop of New Jersey ; and in the presence of the entire corps 
of teachers, and a goodly attendance of patrons and friends. 

y Son of the gentleman, who many years before presented that full-length, 
life-size portrait of Bishop Doane, which attracts the attention of every visitor 
to the College. On the foot of its massive gilt frame is this inscription : 

" COLLEGIO. BURLINGTONIENSI. 
ALMAE. DUOEUM. SUOEUM. FILIORUM. MATRI 
HANC. PRIMI. PRAESIDIS. G. W. DOANE. NEO-CAES. EPISC. EFFIGIEM. 
GEATI. ANIMI. MONIMENTUM 
D. D. D. JOHANNES STOCKTON LITTELL 
III KAL. OCT. 
ANNO. SACRO MDCCCLIII." 

i The Eev. Dr. Jackson was President of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., 
horn April, 1858, to July, 1867. 



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Early on Thursday (Commencement day) the number of 
visitors increases to a throng, who come from all quarters to wit- 
ness scenes, " w^hose like/^ as a reporter from Philadelphia once 
expressed it, "are known on no other day, and in no other 
place, but Burlington.'^ 

The ample grounds — familiarly known as " the circle ; the 
spacious buildings ; the art gallery, decorated on all sides with 
specimens of the proficiency of the pupils, with crayon, and 
pencil, and colors ; and, crowning attraction of all, the Chapel 
of the Holy Innocents, are each visited in order. 

At 10 A. M. the visitors gather in the study hall, and while 
awaiting the hour for the exercises, interest themselves in view- 
ing the emblems and mottoes, of former classes, which adorn 
the walls. For many years, each class has chosen an emblem-, 
and a text from Holy Scripture — those for the class of 1871 
being Lilies of the Yalley, and the words. In quietness 
and confidence shall he your strength. 

On the wall, just over the platform, was a bold crayon-sketch, 
representing the porch to an abbey, having on its arch the motto 
of the class, while near the base of one of the columns support- 
ing this arch, was a cluster of these flowers, twenty- eight in 
number, one for each of the graduating class, the largest class 
ever graduated. 

But — there is a perceptible hush in the assemblage ; and, 
all arise and stand. The procession approaches. First, comes 
the Bishop of Yew Jersey, in academic gown, Oxford cap, and 
scarlet hood ; then, the Principal of the Hall, then the class of 
young w^omen to be graduated, '^not with broidered hair, or gold,, 
or pearls, or costly array,'' but attired in white, with no ornament 
except a leaf of ivy from the Chapel walls. Following these, 
come the matron, and vice-principal, the rector of the pari&h, 
the rector of the college, the visiting clergy, and the trustees, 
for whom places are provided on the platform. All kneel in 
silent prayer. Then, the reading of compositions, from the 
graduating class begins. These are in French, German, Italian, 
Spanish, and Latin, as well as English, with such diversity of 
subject, thought, and style, as shows the characteristics of each 



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661 



writer. "The awarding of testimonials" follows; a simple, 
though much admired^ feature, of the day. An engraved card, 
with the signatures of the Bishop and the Principal, certifies that 
the recipient has attained for a given period, the maximum for 
conduct and scholarship. 

From the school room, the procession returns to the library ; 
while the audience — parents, and relatives holding blue tickets, 
having reserved seats — enter the Chapel. When all are seated 
— and every inch of room is always occupied — the sweet strains 
of the processional float towards them from a distance ; 

"Hark I liark, my soul I Angelic songs are swelling." 

" The singers go before." And, what a blending of melodi- 
ous voices ; voices trained, in tune, and time, by daily practice 
in hymnody ! The music gains in volume. The procession of 
choristers in cottas, and white-clad damsels, and vested clergy, 
reaches the middle of the nave, and the organ adds its notes. 
The line, in the last stanza, seems literal : 

Sing us sweet fragments of the songs above." 

The "Amen" has hardly ended, when the Bidding Prayer 
and Litany are read ; followed, always, with the metrical version 
of Psalm cxxxi : 

" Lord, forever at Thy side, 
Let my place and portion be." 

Each member of the class is then called, and each comes 
forward to the altar-rails, and receives from the Rt. Rev. Presi- 
dent, the diploma of the Hall — with its repesentation of " the 
handmaid of the Lord." 

The Bishop then addresses them on "The Christian Woman's 
Mission" — an anthem follows, and they kneel for the Episcopal 
benediction. 

While, in double rows, these white-clad maidens are bending 
on the lowest steps of the altar, they seem like their chosen 
emblems, " lilies of the valley." 

At 4 p. M. a musical rehearsal takes places in the school-room. 
Solos, duos, quartettes, and choruses, interspersed with brilliant 
instrumental music, occupy two hours. Finally, the twenty- 
eight graduates appear once more together, on the platform, and 
sing their " Parting Song." 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



THE PLEDGE SYSTEM FOR DIOCESAN MISSIONS. 

" The pledge and envelope system/^ for Diocesan Missions^ 
was introduced into the parish, October 29th, 1871, (see p. 439,) 
resulting in a six fold increase of offerings for that object.f 

BISHOP SELWYN VISITS BURLINGTON. 

"On Thursday, November 9th, 1871, the Rt. Rev. George 
Augustus Selwyn, D. D., D. C. L., Lord Bishop of Lichfield, 
England, visited Burlington, as the guest of the Bishop of the 
Diocese. His lordship, accompanied by two of his clergy and 
by Bishop Odenheimer, arrived in Burlington from Philadelphia 
at 3 p. M., and was met at the station by the Bishop of Albany 
and the Rector of St. Mary's, and driven immediately to St. 
Mary's Church, where divers other clergy were in waiting. The 
Church was completely filled, and the chimes rang out joyfully. 

" The three bishops and three priests, on alighting, went at 
once to the grave of Bishop Doane, where they all stood, un- 
covered, and in silence. It was a time, and an occasion, for the 
artist, the poet, and the orator. Bishop Selwyn at the tomb of 
Bishop Doane ! 

" Shortly afterwards, the procession, headed by the masters 
and students of Burlington College, the former in caps and 
gowns, and the latter in their neat uniform, passed from the 
sacristy around the north transept, by the tomb of Bishop 
Doane, to the west door of the nave, where the students opened 
ranks, -and the Bishops and Clergy passed up the nave to the 
chancel. In the procession were the Bishop of New Jersey, the 
the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Albany, the Rev. 
Dr. Hills, rector of St. Mary's parish, the Rev. Mr. Kellogg, 
rector of Burlington College; the Rev. Mr. Smith, principal of 
St. Mary's Hall; the Rev. John R. Selwyn, son of the bishop, 
and vicar of St. George's, Wolverhampton ; the Rev. John H. 
lies, prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral ; the Rev. Drs. Hyde, 
Walker and Weld, and the Rev. Messrs. Pettit, Goldsborough, 
Perkins, Cathell and Shaver, of New Jersey. 



t In the Parochial Keport for 1875, the amount for this object is given a? 
§703.83. 



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The episcopal throne was occupied by the Bishop of the 
Diocese, and the chairs on either side of the altar by his lord- 
ship the Bishop of Lichfield, and the Bishop of Albany. Even- 
ing Prayer was said by the Rev. Messrs. Selwyn and lies, the 
Absolution being pronounced by the lord Bishop. At its close. 
Bishop Odenheimer advanced to the choir steps, and in a few 
word^ of sonorous eloquence, welcomed his lordship as one of 
the towers and bulwarks of the Sion of God, greeting him in the 
name of the dead as well as of the living, and referring to the 
intimacy between Bishops Selwyn and Doane. As his lordship 
came forw^ard and ascended the pulpit, the congregation rose. 
Bishop Selwyn then delivered a most touching address. He 
alluded to the flowers which he saw on the tomb of Bishop 
Doane, and hailed them as tokens of never-dying affection. 
Recounting his first meeting with Bishop Doane at Eton Col- 
lege, and the subsequent sympathy and affection between them, 
he proceeded to speak of the sublimity of Bishop Doane's his- 
toric position as a Christian educator, and the worth and en- 
during fame of his work, as shown by the scholarly men and 
women sent out from Burlington College and St. Mary's Hall, 
Avhom he had met in various parts of the world. He had 
known the trials and discouragements under which Bishop Doane 
laid these noble foundations. He begged the pardon of his au- 
dience if, there at the grave of his friend and brother prelate, 
whose living monument he saw before him in the students of Bur- 
lington College, he addressed himself more particularly to the 
young, and sought to impress upon their minds, in this feverish 
age and country, the lesson of Bishop Doane's life, viz.: jjcdlenGe 
in the work and race of life. Taking this as a theme, his lord- 
ship's speech breathed throughout the holiest spirit of the ripe 
Christian culture of England's ancient Church and school. At 
the conclusion of his lordship's address, the Prayer for the Queen 
and several collects were offered, and the benediction was pro- 
nounced by the Bishop of Albany. 

" The party then drove to the college, where they were re- 
ceived by the students in front of the main entrance. His lord- 
ship passed around the semi-circle in which the sixty students 



664 HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



were arranged, shaking hands with, and speaking some kind 
word to, each one. According to English usage, the Lord 
Bishop asked a holiday for the students, and put it to vote, and 
it is needless to say there was an unanimous silence when con- 
trary minds were asked for ! 

" A short service was held in the Chapel of the Holy Child 
Jesus. ^ Jerusalem, the golden,' was sung on entering. After 
prayer by the Rev. Rector, the Lord Bishop was formally intro- 
duced by the Rt. Rev. President, and made a very thoughtful 
address. He w^as followed by the Bishop of Albany, who spoke 
with great feeling. He expressed himself as having taken new 
heart from what he had seen of the college that day, with its 
numerous and increasing body of students, and the zeal of its 
efficient rector. The benediction was pronounced by Bishop 
Selwyn, and the assemblage retired. 

The students gathered in the general study-hall, where his 
lordship introduced his son to them, as an old Eton boy. The 
Rev. Mr. Selwyn then made a very clever, and characteristically 
English speech, which elicited loud cheers. 

" In the evening, his lordship attended prayers at St. Mary's 
Hall, w^here he made an address full of pathos and beauty, and 
was followed by the Rev. JNIr. lies. His lordship asked the favor 
of a holiday for the girls. Bishop Odenheimer made a conclud- 
ing address of great beauty and tenderness, founded on II Kings 
XX : 14-15: [Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, 
and said unto him, What said these men f and from whence came 
they unto thee f And Hezehiah said. They are come from a far 
country, even from Babylon. And he said, What have they seen 
in thine house f And Hezehiah ansioered, All the things that are 
in mine house have they seen : there is nothing among my treasures 
that I have not shewed than,'] and reviewing the events of the 
day in Parish, College, Hall and Home. From 9 to 11 p. m. a 
levee was held at ^Riverside,' where Mrs. Odenheimer received, 
with her usual grace, the many friends who called to pay 
their respects to her distinguished guests, and partake of her 
elegant hospitality. 

To no parish in this new country could an English clergy- 
man and scholar come and find older and more classic Church 



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665 



associations than to this venerable parish of ' sweet St. Mary's." 
Especially is this true of Bishop Selwyn. The similarity of 
thought between himself and Bishop Doane — both possessing 
the same spirit of heroism and self-sacrifice in the cause of 
Christ — endeared them strongly to each other. Like most origi- 
nators, they lived too soon. Thirty years ago these two grand 
men, Selwyn in the Anglican, and Doane in the American, 
Church, came before the world, enunciating and setting in mo- 
tion very positive ideas in regard to what their far-seeing minds, 
perceived to be the two most important fields of the Church's 
work, viz., Missions and Christian Education. The Church 
then was disposed to regard these ideas as impracticabilities, and 
their authors as visionaries. To-day the Church stands where 
they did then, and thus acknowledges the greatness of their 
foresight." — The Churchman. 

THE EEV. • DE. JOHNSON TO THE EEY. DE. HILLS. 

" Bainbridge, Chenango C'y, N. Y. 

March 23, 1872. 

"i^eu. George Morgan Hills, D. D, 

Rev. and Deae Beothee — I received this afternoon your 
note of request for information concerning the Church in Bur- 
lington. I have but little personal knowledge on the subject, 
often as I have officiated in St. Mary's and in St. Barnabas'. 

" The history of the Chime of Bells deserves a record. The 
Bells were first officially used on Easter Day, 1866, the j^rs^ of 
April ; and on that morning our beloved Bishop Odenheimer 
first appeared in Church after a long three or four months pain- 
ful absence ; f he confirmed, addressed the class, and celebrated 

t "It pleased God," writes Bishop Odenheimer, in his Episcopal Address of 
1866, " to take me from the midst of my Episcopal duties, and to confine me 
to my house for nearly four months. On the afternoon of the second Sunday 
in Advent (December 10th) after officiating at the Missionary Chapel of the 
Holy Trinity, Eoundabout, and in the act of leaving the chancel, I made a 
misstep and fell to the nave, fracturing the patella of my left knee. Through 
the kindness of the Rector and parishioners of Roundabout and South Amboy, 
and the generous action of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company m 
furnishing me a special car, I was enabled to reach Riverside without delay ; 
and by God's blessing on the skill of my surgeon, and other faitliful helpers, 
a measure of my former strength has been restored to me. Although I was 



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the Holy Eucharist. I preached the sermon, bringing in our wel- 
come to the Bells, our congratulations at the Bishop's recovery 
and presence, not omitting a pleasant reference to the April 
Day. The text was 2 Pet. i, 16: ^ For loe have not followed 
cunningly devised fables,^ etc. I wrote it for the occasion. 

" I recall with tender emotion the memory, that while I was 
spending protracted hours in St. Mary's Church Yestry room_ 
elaborating the Catalogue of the General Theological Seminary 
Pamphlets, I used to step out into the Church to admire the con- 
stant and fatiguing labors which our lamented friend Mr. 
Edward B. Grubb devoted to the practical experiments of 
arranging the successful pealing of the Bells, applying to it for 
weeks all his well known science and skill. There he was often 
for hours with his coat off, alone, in his beautiful House of 
Prayer, consecrating his time, his strength, and his talents to 
this sacred work. I felt that it was work, and worship too. 

" I do not remember anything else to tell you of, except a 
little history told me by Mr. Windsor, one of our parishioners at 
Baiubridge, a lawyer of reputation. More than thirty-five years 
ago, he was going down the Delaware river, upon a raft, bound to 
Philadelphia, in company with the chief owner, a churchman 
of Canandaigua. When they reached a place called Burlington, 
their logs in some way became entangled and obstructed, and 
they wanted very much to borrow a row-boat, to free them, 
and put them all in regular line again. So they got on shore 
and tried in vain to borrow a boat for the purpose. Boats there 
were, but they were locked, or their owners were absent and 
could not be consulted. They were told however to walk along 
the Bank, and perhaps they might find what they wanted. 
AVhen they had gone so far as almost to despair of their chance, 
they came to a nice boat, chained and locked. Looking around 
they espied a man standing on a porch near by. ^ Can you tell 
me. Sir, who owns this boat ? ' ^ I do,^ was the reply. ^ Could 
you let us have it for a little while to start our raft again ? ' 

able to carry on my official correspondence without interruption, I performed 
no out-door Episcopal dnty until Easter-even (March SOtli) when I resumed 
my Visitations by celebrating the Holy Eucharist, and Confirming twenty- 
four persons, in the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, St. Mary's Hall." 



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667 



^Certainly — but just wait a minute till I put on my boots, and 
I will go along with you myself and help you.' So out they 
started. The obliging stranger rowed, and Avorked with a will, 
and soon all was right. ' Xow,' said the man, 'what shall I 
pay you for the use of your boat?' 'Oh nothing at all, you 
are perfectly welcome.' ' Oh my dear Sir,' said the other, 'you 
have not only lent us your boat, but you have lent us your arms 
and you did grand service, I must somehow repay you.' 'Oh', 
was the answer, ' I count it a pleasant thing to help a neighbour, 
especially if it be a neighbour in difficulty.' ' Well,' said the 
man, ' tell me at least your name, that I may know who has 
obliged me so much.' The other answered, ' Why, they com- 
monly call me Bishop Doane.' ' Bishop Doane I ' replied he, 
' you don't mean to say, this is the great Bishop Doane, of whom 
we hear so much.' The other laughed and said, ' You will find 
no one else to answer to the name.' Then with many thanks 
the raftsmen bid good bye, the Bishop inviting them to call 
and see him, if they passed that way again. 

" This little pleasant incident, I guess, has never been circu- 
lated, till it turned up in our little country village in Central 
Xew York, three hundred miles away, and one of the very actors 
in the scene told it to me himself. 

" Traveling in a car with the Bishop of Albany, I had the 
satisfaction of bringing the Bishop and the raftsman together. 

" Wishino; you all success in brino^ino^ toQ:ether all ancient and 
modern traditions concerning good St. Mary's, and the Church 
in Burlington generally, I remain 

"Most truly and respectfully, 

" Your friend and brother, 

"Samuel Eooseyelt Joiixsox." 

a legacy axd other gifts — the oegax removed axd 
doubled ix size. 
"The legacy (of $1000) included under the head of offerings 
for ' the Poor,' was received from the estate of Mrs. Sarah C. 
Robardet, the annual interest of which, by the provisions of her 
will, is to be applied to the purchase of fuel for the needy mem- 
bers of the Parish. 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



^^The offerings for cabinet-organ (§125), and altar linen (§25), 
were specific gifts from two inclividuals.f 

" The great organ of the Church has been removed from the 
:floor of the north transept, to the gallery at the foot of the nave, 
and doubled in size ; and a door, gallery, and pews, have been 
<!onstructed in the north transept, corresponding to those in the 
south transept, thus supplying seventy additional sittings. The 
cost of these changes was met by the conversion of a portion of 
the funded property of the parish." — Parochial Report^ 1873. - 

A SUNDAY IX BURLIXGTOX. 

The Church Journal of December 19th, 1872, has the follow- 
ing from an anonymous correspondent : 

" It was on a pleasant autumn day, that the train stopped at 
the station, and stepping from it, we found ourselves in the 
heart of the good city of Burlington ; which has something to 
boast of, greater even than the advantages of manufactures or 
trade. 

"Facing the river, all along the 'green bank,' are fine, old- 
fashioned residences, low-walled and unpretending, but having 
delightful grounds, and shaded by ancient trees, and shrubbery 
of marvellous growth ; pleasant abodes, bearing the unmista- 
kable impress of ease and elegance. 

" In this vicinity, are located the two academies of St. Mary's 
Hall, and Burlington College ; with ' Riverside,' the home of 
the Bishop of New Jersey, lying between. Up and down the 
river, are pleasure boats moored ; now and then, a sail glides 
by ; or the little steamers, plying between the city and Phila- 
delphia. 

'' The Hall, numbering near two hundred pupils, from every 
section of the land, is a long, irregular structure of brick, near 
the river's bank, with pleasure grounds adjoining. Attached to 
it, is a lovely little chapel ; that of ' the Holy Innocents ;' where 
daily service for the pupils is held. 

" At some distance from this, below, and beyond the Episco- 
pal residence, standing farther back, but looking toward the 
river, is the College, established in 1846. We had the pleasure 
of spending a little time there, and of becoming somewhat ac- 
cjuainted with its accomplished Rector, the Rev. Dr. Clerc, and 

t The cabinet organ, by Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ellis ; and the altar linen, from 
England, by Mr. William D. Hewitt. 



IX BUELINGTOiS^. 



669 



his family; and with some of the corps of teachers; and though 
not witnessing their system of instruction, were most delight- 
fully impressed with the advantages of the institution. It was 
very pleasant to breathe the air of a genial Christian home ; to- 
note the courteous and fraternal spirit of the boys towards one 
another ; and the deference and respect, which they seemed, 
most spontaneously, to accord to their principal and teachers. 
The religious influence around them lifts up their standard of 
character, and ennobles their ideas of life and its duties. * 
On the bright Sunday morning the sweet chimes of St. Mary^s 
called us to Church. There is, perhaps, no where to be found 
a more beautiful Church, than St. Mary's of Burlington ; so 
solid, in structure; and symmetrical, in proportions. It is 
cruciform, with a graceful spire rising from the junction of the 
nave and transepts. 

" As we came near, the long procession of girls^ with their 
teachers, from the Hall, passed in at one door, in their neat 
attire, and fresh loveliness; making a pretty sight. From 
another direction, and by a different entrance, passed the young 
collegians ; fine-looking, manly lads, in their handsome uniform 
of gray, marching, with measured step, accompanied by their 
tutors. There was the full morning service, and the Hector of 
the Parish, the Rev. Dr. Hills, gave an excellent practical ex- 
hortation, with some interesting facts, relative to the duty of 
giving to Diocesan Missions. 

" The organ is a fine instrument, and finely played ; and the 
music well rendered by the choir of the parish, in connection 
with one composed of boys, from the College. 

At the close of the sermon, the Rector read from a telegram, 
which had been given him in the chancel, the startling news of 
the Boston calamity ; while a thrill of consternation and sym- 
pathy, trembled through the large congregation; and when, 
after the prayer for the Church Militant, a supplication was 
offered for the deliverance of our smitten brethren, all hearts 
were fervently uplifted. 

" In the afternoon, we came once more into the churchyard, 
where a scene of rare loveliness presented itself to our gaze. 
The sweet, crisp air, was mellow, with the rich autumn sunset. 
Above, a little to the left, in the clear blue, lay the moon, a 
silver shell. At our right, rose the walls of the beautiful 
Church, defined against a glowing sky, from whose horizon 
streamed a wondrous banner of clouds, intense crimson, lyings 
in burnished folds, against others of vivid green ; a truly mar- 
vellous combination, Aflame-color,, vert and azure.' Through 



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HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



the stained windows, lights were shining ; and the softened voice 
of the organ, with the vesper-hymn, floated towards us ; while 
in all the branches above us, multitudes of sparrows were twit- 
tering and chirping their evensong. On either side, the quiet 
dead; beneath our feet, the fallen leaves; above, the tall ever- 
greens, and cross-topped spire, pointing upward to the serene 
and glorious skies. A lull of silence, — and the people came out 
from Church ; and breaking into groups, lent that ne\v anima- 
tion to the picture, that human life ever gives. 

" AYe spent a pleasant evening at the College, with sacred music, 
and the missionary service, held by the boys ; early closing 
w^ith family prayers. Then, reluctantly, our good nights were 
said ; and again we bent our steps toward our hotel. The sweet, 
calm moonlight, fell around, and in the northern sky, red 
streamers of auroral light flamed up, and sank again below the 
zenith; and so, a superbly lovely night, ended for us, a more 
delightful day, in the dear old town of Burlington." 

OBSERYAXCES OX THE FOURTH OF JULY. 
"the salutation at mYERSIDE." 

From the time of the foundation of Burlington College, the 
anniversary of our National Independence has been observed 
w^ith customs and exercises unique. As a description of one 
of these occasions will afford an idea of them all, w^e select an 
account of that on the 4th of July, 1873. 

At 8 o'clock in the morning there w^as the formal raising of 
the College flag on the campus. This banner is the same as that 
of our national colors, except that in the ground which is occu- 
pied in them by the stars, a large white cross appears. " The 
Star Spangled Banner," is played by the band as soon as the 
flag reaches its highest position on the staff. 

At 9 A. M., the family of St. Mary's Hall emerge in a body 
from that institution, and take their station in double lines, 
sweeping around and down on either side of the green bank, 
making two great arcs of a circle — two hundred teachers and 
pupils — in front of the great doorway of Riverside. Hardly 
have their places been gained, before Rector and professors of 
the college, all in academic gowns, Oxford caps, and hoods of 
their several degrees, attended by their students in military 
array — neat gray uniforms, with banners and muskets and mar- 



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tial masic, are drawn up in a straight line facing Eiverside. 
Outside the great doorway is the Bishop, in gown and scarlet 
hood, as the central figure ; on his right, the rector of the Parish 
and the principal of the Hall ; and just back of him, the members 
and invited guests of his own immediate household. 

One of the students of the College comes to the front, and in 
behalf of his fellow students, greets the Bishop with a short, 
appropriate and well-learned speech, to which the Bishop 
makes a fitting reply. " God bless our native land," is then 
sung by the united assemblage, and the collegians withdraw 
in martial order for their own pleasures at the College ; while the 
family of the Hall are invited into the spacious grounds of the 
Episcopal residence, to pass their customary social hour.'' 
About this time, the chimes from St. Mary's spire are heard 
playing national airs, and soon the parishioners in the city 
are engaged in the service of morning prayer at the parish 
Church, which is always said in accordance with " the Form " 
prescribed for this anniversary in the Proposed Book."t 

THE PEESENTATION OF ALMS. 

On Sunday morning, October 19th, 1873, with the approval 
of the Bishop, who was present, the custom was introduced in St. 
Mary's, (which has long been common in many churches,) of 
having the whole congregation rise and stand during the presen- 
tation of the alms and oblations on the altar. 

A EECTORY PURCHASED. 

On the 8th of November, 1873, the spacious brick mansion 
on the northeast corner of Broad and Wood streets,^ was pur- 
chased at public auction for a rectory ; and first occupied as such, 
March 11th, 1874. Six thousand dollars of the purchase-money 
was provided by the bequest of Mrs. Robardet, made six years 
ago, (see p. 645,) with its accumulations since ; and one thou- 
sand dollars was contributed by Mrs. Euphemia B. Grubb. 

t See p. 422. 

X This house was built in 1838, and is one of the best and most commodious 
dwellings in the city ; admirably located for its new uses ; commanding a 
view of the entire Churchyard, and within a minute's walk of the Church 



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THE DEATH AND BUEIAL OF THE RET. ME. SHAYER.f 

The Rev\ Daniel Shaver, itinerant missionary of the Con- 
vocation of Burlington, entered into rest on Sunday morning, 
Jan. 25th, 1874, the feast of the conversion of St. Paul, 
aged 56 years. The burial took place from St. Mary's Church, 
Burlington, on Wednesday morning, Jan. 28th. Fifteen of the 
reverend clergy were in attendance. The Rev. Joseph H. Smith 
and the Rev. F. C. Putnam read the portion of the burial service 
appointed for the Church. The choir led the congregation in 
the anthem, and the hymns "Asleep in Jesus," and ''Hark! 
hark, my soul ! The Rev. Dr. Hills, at the request of the de- 
ceased, preached ; and the sermon, by vote of the clergy present, 
was published. The following are its chief words : 

It was the pre-eminent distinction of our departed brother 



doors. A year ago, the premises were put in complete repair, and all the 
modern conveniences added. 

At a meeting of the Vestry November lOtli, 1873, on motion of the Eector, 
it was " Resolved, that the acknowledgments and thanks of this Vestry are 
due, and are hereby given, to Mr. John Broomhead for his valuable and effi- 
cient personal services in securing the purchase of the Rectory for St. Mary's 
Church, on Saturday last,'" 

t This humble servant of Christ first saw the light on the 9th of February, 
1818, in the village of Westmoreland, New York. His father, a devout man, 
shed upon his household the powerful influence of a Christian life. He said 
but little to his children on the subject of their personal religion, but never 
failed to gather them around the family altar, and to make mention of them in 
his prayers. " I can hear his voice «o?r," said our brother, recalling this por- 
tion of his childhood, and choking with emotion at the remembrance of what 
he owed to such a father. 

The Cazenovia Seminary, was the place in which our friend had his next 
education. Gifted with a deej), clear voice, familiar with the language of 
Holy Scripture, and with an earnest desire to save souls, at the early age of 
19 he became a Methodist preacher — removing from place to place, for several 
years. At a burial from Trinity Church, Watertown, N. Y., he first heard 
any service of the Church. It impressed him deeply. He was led to read the 
Prayer book ; and, as he had opportunity, to witness other services for which 
the Church has such inimitable provision. The prayer book was again re- 
ferred to, and compared with Holy Scripture ; and he said to me, with em- 
phasis^ repeating the remark, "The Scriptural character of the Book of 
Common Prayer — this it was which convinced me." He was confirmed by 
Bishop DeLancey, in Rochester, N. Y., and became a candidate for Holy 
Orders in the diocese of Indiana. He went to Nashotah for six months, 
where he enjoyed the instruction of those, who, through God's grace, have 
made that school of the prophets one of the grandest monuments of missionary 
faith in modern times. In the chapel of Nashotah, our candidate was or- 
dained by his OAvn diocesan. Bishop L'pfold ; and in the following year pro- 
moted to the priesthood, in Indianapolis. After serving many years in 
Indiana, he removed to Texas, and in 1868, came to New Jersey. G. M. h. 



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673 



that most of his life was given to missionary wori^. He never 
was a rector, never had any ecclesiastical, nor academic titles, 
never held any conspicuous posts. I count him worthy of 
double honor in that he exercised his office in outlying villages 
and secjuestered hamlets, where, but for him, or rare ones like 
minded, the preaching of the Kingdom might never have been 
heard. ^ >k 

He labored at Rocky Hill, at Rancocas, and at Fairview, 
releasing more than one of these churches from the embarrass- 
ments of debt ; and latterly, at Barnegat, Tuckerton and Mana- 
hawken — on the sea-coast — where the people received him with 
thankfulness. During this period we are " witnesses how holily 
and justly and unblamably he behaved himself.'^ Who has not 
seen him, calm and thoughtful, going forth to seek the dispersed 
in the scattered communities to which he was sent ? With his 
surplice and service-book, his sermons and tracts for distribu- 
tion, he has gone at all seasons ; alone, and often on foot ; and 
how cheered he seemed, if on his return, he could tell of but 
two or three who had been sufficiently touched by the Sun of 
righteousness as to be garnered into the Church's granary. Men 
of less patience and less faith would have grown discouraged at 
the small returns of the soil which he had spiritually to till. 
But who ever heard him complain ? He seemed to have learned 
that the good seed must be sown, regardless of appearances ; and 
that "the kingdom of God Cometh not with observation." * 

A month ago I was summoned at night to give him what 
was then believed to be the final consolations of the Church. 
He laid his head lovingly upon my shoulder and said in his 
sweetly solemn way : " That Holy Communion ! That blessed 
Communion Sitting upon his bed, his wife and only child on 
either side of him, he was soon receiving that " manna," which 
the faithful continue to eat, " till they come to the borders " of 
the promised land. Every response was made, without a book, 
and, occasionally, he interpolated, with cjuiet fervor, " Glory to 
God." When the office was concluded he was laid back upon a 
pillow. After the others withdrew, I inquired if he had any 
message for the Convocation. He paused for some time — so 
long that I feared he was too exhausted to reply — then he said, 
" Life is short. The Holy Scriptures are the best sermons. The 
Holy Ghost the best preacher. Tell the brethren that my heart 
is overflowing with love to them ; that I have tried to cultivate 
the little places they have assigned me ; and that I think there 

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are indications tliat, by God's blessing, there will in time be a 
glorious harvest." 

He survived yet many days. And in these more fully set 
his house in order. He directed concerning the abode of his 
family, concerning his personal effects, concerning his mission- 
ary supplies. He *'gave commandment concerning his bones," 
and desired them to be buried in St. Mary's churchyard ; and 
that none but the Church's hands should consio^n them to the 
earth. 

To soothe and cheer him through the weary nights, it was 
the custom of his wife and daughter to sing hymns, playing 
upon an instrument of music." The last Sunday night he passed 
upon earth, while they were thus engaged, he commenced sing- 
ing in German, 

" This heart of mine, O Jesus, take." 

It Vv^ill not surprise you to hear that one with such a record, 
as he drew near the portals of Paradise, had glimpses within. 

When his sight was sealed to earth, he several times ad- 
dressed, by name, friends long deceased ; his parents ; his two 
children ; and the late Samuel Rogers, sometime Senior War- 
den of St. Mary's, to whom, in his last sickness, he ministered. 
''They are coming!" he exclaimed. " Who?" was the inquiry. 
" Oh ! so many angels !" was his answer. 

Three days more he lingered — his hearing and speech gone. 
Shut out from all things earthly, he seemed communing with 
"the powers of the world to come." He was constantly lifting 
his hands and smiling — and thus he departed; an expression of 
joy illumining his face, and remaining upon it, like a lingering 
ray from Heaven. 

Who that was acquainted with that countenance in life, and 
saw its radiance in death, had not occular demonstration, that 
" Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." 

The services at the grave were read by the Rev. Elvin K. 
Smith, and the Rev. Drs. Clerc, W^alker, and Weld; the earth 
being cast upon the coffin by the Rev. Messrs. Lines and New- 
man. After the final "Amen," the bells in St. Mary's spire 
played " Rock of Ages." t 

f At the first Dieeting of the Convocation of Burlington after the decease of 
Mr. Shaver, Dr. Hills and Mr. Smith were appointed a committee to erect a 
headstone at his grave. A cross-topped stone, a little to the northwest from 
the old St. Mary's Church has this inscription : "The Eev. Daniel Shaver, 
Missionary, entered into rest Jan. 25th, a. d. 1874, aged fifty-six years." 



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THE OLD CHUECH OF ST. MARY^ BUELINGTOX^ X. J. 

BY GEOEGE m'CLELLAX FISK. t 

''A chapel nigh the field, 
A broken chancel with a broken cros^— 
Where lav the might v bones of ancient men, 
Old knights." 

A queenly ruin 1 — though it wear 

iS'o splendor to strange eyes, 
Yet rich and royal memories 

From each old wall arise — 
How it was raised in Bridlington, j 

Of her sweet heart and hand, 
The gracious and free gift to God 

Of Anne | of England. 

But not for this the temple old 

Is Cjueenlike in its age, 
But for its dower of ghostly gifts 

And cjracejvl heritage. 
For here the Church's triple crown, 

The Holy Orders three, 
Has shone in lustrous light upon 

An Apostolic See, || 

Its blazing stars, the Bishops bold, 

A Talbot *' and a Doane — 
And here were placed for many a year 

The x^astoral staff and throne. 
Here stood the mitred poet-prince, 

Of Xoya Cfesarea 
A Chrysostom — whose flaming soul 

xse'er knew reproach or fear. 

The knighthood of the Church of Christ, 

The Arthurs and Geraints 1 
Their graves now pave these sacred courts ; ° 

Their souls are with the saints. 



t Mr. Fisk was admitted to the Holy Order of Deacons, in St. Mary's 
Church, on Trinity Sunday, May 31st, 1874; and on the Thursday following, 
in the same Church, was united in iloly Matrimony witli Mary Greenough, 
by the Eev. Dr. Wm. S. AValker, father of the bride— Bishop Odenheimer 
pronouncing the Benediction. 

X The original spelling retained by its namesake on the Yorkshire coast. 

§ Queen Anne befriended the church with benefactions, including a chalice 
and paten, still in use. 

ii In 1712 the S. P. G. purchased here '"'the best house in America" for an 
Episcopal residence, and fixed upon Burlington as the first American See. 

*~ The Eev. John Talbot, M. A., founder, and for a quarter of a century 
Eector of this Parish, was, in 1722, consecrated by the non-jurors, and returned 
to this country, where he died November 29th, 1727. 

" Xo less than five rectors are buried in and about this Church — to sa/ 
nothing of other clergymen — and distinguished laymen, not a few. 41 



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Oh, reverently regard their dust, 

And let your ?tep he light 
O'er tho?e, whose spirits stand so near 

The Beatific Sight. 

When Christ shone out — the Light of Light — 

At His Epiphany, 
From Mary's breast His radiance beamed 

O'er every land and sea. 
So vrhen on this far sunset coast 

"Went out the Saviour's fame, 
'Twas borne from thi^ Cathedral Church, 

That beareth Mary's name. 

Here has been told in all the years 

2s ow numbered vrith the past, 
The Church's blessed rosary 

Of Festival and Fast f 
And still ^vith every rising sun, 

That gilds the Eastern skies, 
Outpour the children-choristers 

For daily sacrifice.! 

Oh, cherish then this holy house 

Thy glory, Burlington I 
For blessings it hath brought to thee, 

And fame for thee hath won. 
And as you pass this moss-grown close^ 

This Via Sacra tread. 
Thank God, that He hath knit in Christ, 

The living with the dead. 

Guard well this relique of old time, 

This witness in the West, 
"Where long the ancient Faith was preached, 

And where its heralds rest. 
The beauty of their footprints shines, 

In light that ne'er shall cease. 
And brighter than the day when first 

Their voices published peace. 

Peace .' It hath been a constant gues-t. 
Because this Ark of God, 

Hath rested here — and here for years 
Hath bloomed the almond rod. 

Then pray ye for St. Mary's wealth- 
Long as thine hour-glass runs. 

So priests shall never wanting be, 
To bless St. Mary's sons. 



t Daily service was established in this church so long ago as 1724. 

i The Parish School now occupies a portion of the building, and goes thence 
to the new church every day for Morning Prayer. 



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677 



[official.] 
DIOCESE OF isEW JERSEY : 
COJS: VOCATION OF BURLINGTON. 

At a meetino; of the Executive Board of the Convocation of 
Burlington, September 29th, 1874, the Feast of St. Michael and 
All Angels, the Bishop announced that on the 18th instant, he 
received the resignation of the Rev. Joseph F. Garrison, M. D., 
as Dean of the Convocation, and that he had this day appointed 
to that office the Rev. George Morgan Hills, D. D. 

The Secretaryship thus becoming vacant, the Board elected 
the Rev. Nathaniel Pettit, Secretary, until the next regular 
meeting of the Convocation. 

W. H. Odenheimer, 
Bishop of Neio Jersey. 

THE BISHOP CALLS A SPECIAL COXYENTIOX. 

"House of Bishops, New York, Oct. 10th, 1874. 
" To the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of New Jersey. 

" Brethren Beloved ix the Lord — By the action of the 
General Convention this day consummated, the formation of a 
new Diocese within the present limits of the Diocese of New 
Jersey has been ratified, said new Diocese to be composed of the 
seven Northern counties of the State, viz. : the counties of Sus- 
sex, Warren, Morris, Passaic, Bergen, Hudson and Essex, to- 
gether with the township of Summit, in Union county. 

" In accordance with the privilege given me by Article Y of 
the Constitution of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the 
United States of America, I have decided to elect the new Dio- 
cese as my jurisdiction, and, God willing, shall become the 
Diocesan thereof on the day of its organization, November 12, 
A. D. 1874. This decision is the result of most serious and 
prayerful deliberation. Fifteen years of unfailing kindness 
from every part of the Diocese make it almost impossible for 
me to relinquish the oversight of any portion of my beloved 
fiock • but the decision must be made, and I now announce it 
in the fear of God, and with changeless affection for you all. 



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^'This decision as to my future jurisdiction will soon leave 
you without a Bishop. Therefore, by virtue of the authority 
vested in me by Article III of the Constitution of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church in the State of New Jersey, I hereby call a 
Special Convention of the Diocese of New Jersey, to be held in 
St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N. J., on Thursday, the 12th day 
of November next, a. d. 1874, at 9 o'clock A. m., for the elec- 
tion of a Bishop t and such other Officers and Committees as 
may be necessary to continue the Diocese in full working order. 

" You will provide that duly accredited Lay Deputies from, 
your several Parishes be present at this important Convention. 
Imploring God's blessing upon you, I am 
Affectionately, your Bishop, 

"William Henry Odenheimer, 

" Bishop of Neiu Jersey. ''^ 

FAREWELL LETTER FROM BISHOP ODENHEIMER. 

The following, directed to the Rev. Geo. Morgan Hills, D. D.^ 
Rector of St. Mary's Parish, and to the Rev. Robert L. Goldsbor- 
ough. Rector of St. Barnabas' Church, was read in those 
Churches, on Sunday November 8th : 

" Diocese of New Jersey, Nov. 7, 1874. 
" To My Dear Friends, the Clergy and Laity of the City of Bur- 
lington, N, J. : 

" The division of the Diocese of New Jersey having been con- 
firmed by the General Convention, I 'have been compelled to 
decide which portion of the State shall become, God willing, my 
future jurisdiction. 

" After earnest and prayerful thought, I have chosen the 
upper section to be my Diocese. This compels me to take leave 
of the lower fourteen counties of my old and beloved Episcopal 
charge. 

t The following, prepared by the rector of ?t. Mary's, was offered twice, 
and thrice, and, in some instances, seven times, a day, by hundreds of Bur- 
lington Church people. 

''a prayer. 

" To he offered in private and in families until the election of a Bishop. 
" Almighty God, Who knowest the hearts of all men, and their exact adapta- 
tion to times and places, give us, we beseech Thee, a man after Thine own 
heart, to be our Chief Shepherd under Thee, one who will feed us with a faith- 
ful and true heart, and rule us prudently with all his power, through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen.'' 



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679 



In separating officially from my friends, and especially from 
you, my neighbours of this city, which has been my home for 
the last fifteen years, I cannot say in person, farewell to each. 
I desire, therefore, to express in this letter my unfailing love 
for you all and for your families ; to acknowledge the courtesy 
with which you have always received me and my household, 
and to invoke God's choicest blessings, temporal and spiritual, 
on you and yours. 

" That peace and prosperity may abound among you, and that 
you may be united by the power of the Holy Ghost in perfect 
charity, is the fervent prayer of ever your affectionate friend and 
Bishop. 

''W. H. Odenheimer," 

THE SPECIAL CONVENTION OF THE DIOCESE. 

St. Mary's Church, Burlington, 
Thursday, November 12th, A. D. 1874. 
A number of the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of New 
Jersey, assembled for Divine Service, at 9 A. M., in accordance 
with the call of Bishop Odenheimer, issued October 10th. 
(See p. 677.) 

Morning Prayer was said by the Rev. Alfred B. Baker, the 
Rev. Gustavus M. Murray, and the Rev. Erskine M. Rodman, 
assisted in the Lessons by the Rev. Albert U. Stanley and the 
Rev. Stevens Parker. 

The Ante-Communion Service was said by the Rev. Joseph 
F. Garrison, M.D. ; the Rev. Elvin K. Smith, reading the 
Epistle, and the Rev. George Morgan Hills, D.D., reading the 
Gospel. 

The sermon was preached by the Rev. Alfred Stubbs, D.D., 
from the words, " Neither he the partaker of other men's sinsJ^ 
I St. Tim. V. 22. 

The Offertory was said by the Rev. Samuel A. Clark, D.D., 
after which, the Holy Communion was celebrated by the Rev. 
Nathaniel Pettit, assisted by several of the Clergy. The Rev. 
"William S. Walker, D.D., pronounced the blessing. 

After Divine Service, the Assistant Secretary called the Con- 
vention to order, and reported that there was present a constitu- 
tional Cjuorum. 



G80 HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



The Rev. Joseph F. Garrison, M.D., was nominated for Pres- 
ident of the Convention, by the Rev. Dr. Alfred Stubbs ; and on 
motion of the Rev. Dr. Clark, balloting was dispensed with, 
and the vote taken viva voce. 

The Rev. Dr. Stubbs and Mr. Morris Meredith were appointed 
to conduct the President to the Chair. 

After briefly addressing the Convention, the President ap- 
pointed the Rev. William B. Otis, Mr. George E. Sibley, and 
Dr. J. Howard Pugh, a Committee on the Testimonials of Lay 
Deputies which had not been sent to the Assistant Secretary. 

The Rev. Alfred B. Baker was nominated for Secretary, by 
the Rev. Dr. George Morgan Hills ; and declared elected. 

The Secretary appointed the Rev. Nathaniel Pettit his As- 
sistant. 

The President then read the following communication from 
Bishop Odenheiraer : 

"To the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese of New Jersey, assembled in Special 
Convention : 

BuETHREN Beloved in the Lord — My official notice calling this 
Special Convention, issued on the 10th of October, duly informed you of the 
decision of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, con- 
firming the action of the Diocese in the matter of its division. 

" I have also communicated to you my election of the new Diocese, con- 
sisting of the upper seven counties, together with the township of Summit, as 
the field of my future Episcopal jurisdiction. 

" You meet together to-day (the 12th inst.) then, for the first time in fifteen 
years, without my presence as your Bishop. This fact, to me, is full of heart- 
felt interest, for it recalls to me, with intense emphasis, the unwearied love 
that, during these many years, you have poured out upon my personal and 
official ministrations, upholding my weakness, bearing with my infirmities, 
and strengthening my efibrts to fulfil the responsibilities of my Episcopate. 
I shall enjoy those gracious gifts no more ; and although I go to a portion of 
my old Diocese, where the same precious blessings have been granted to me, 
nevertheless I shall never forget what I have so freely and fully received 
from you, and your beloved households. God bless you and them with every 
benediction, temporal and spiritual ; and when the glorious work for Christ 
and His Church in this Avorld shall be ended, may we be united forever in 
the rewards of the Church triumphant, for the merits of Jesus Christ our 
Saviour. ''^ 

''And now, dear Brethren, I will not detain you from the important duties 
which, in the name of God and His Church, you are called upon to discharge 
in this Special Convention, 



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681 



" Commending to your usual conscientious care the various interests and 
institutions of the Diocese, to which I have so often directed your particular 
attention in my former addresses, and assuring you of my undying love for 
you all, I invoke, for your guidance in all things, the presence of God's Holy 
Spirit, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 

J "Affectionately your friend and Bishop, 

"W. H. Odenheimer, 

''Bishop of Nevj Jersey. 

" Diocese of New Jersey, November 11, 1874." 

Mr. George E. Sibley, from the Committee on the Eules of 
Proceeding in the Election of a Bishop, read their report, 
which, was, in the language of the report adopted by the Con- 
vention of New Jersey in 1859, with the single exception of 
this addition, " it being understood that the first ballot taken 
shall be informal." (See p. 555.) 

J. Howard Pugh, M. D., of Burlington, was elected Treasurer 
of the Diocese. The following were elected 

THE STANDING COMMITTEE. 

Rev. Samuel A. Clark, D. D., Hon. Abraham Browning, 
" Alfred Stubbs, D. D., Mr. Charles E. Miluor, " 

" George Morgan Hills, D. D., Joseph H. Thompson, M. D., 
" Joseph F. Garrison, M. D., Mr. Richard S. Conover. 
The Convention took a recess till 5 30 P. M. 
The Convention re-assembled, at the hour appointed ; and on 
motion, proceeded to the order of the day : 

THE ELECTION OF THE FOUETH BISHOP OF NEW JEESEY. 

The Chair appointed as Tellers of the Clerical Vote, the 
Rev. E. M. Rodman, and Mr. M. B. Taylor ; and of the Lay 
Vote, the Rev. Elvin K. Smith, and Dr. J. H. Thompson. 

Silence was kept for a space, for the secret prayers of the Con- 
vention. Selected Collects were said by the President, and the 
Veni Creator Spiritus, in its longer form, was said by the Presi- 
dent and Convention, answering by verses. 

The seats for the Clergy and Laity having been arranged by 
the Chair, the Convention proceeded to ballot, in which it was 
engaged until Friday afternoon, before a choice was made. 

The following table shows the results of the various ballots : 



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683 



After the tellers reported the fourteenth ballot^ the President 
announced that the Rev. John Scarborough, D. D., Eector of 
Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., had been duly elected by the 
concurrent vote of the Clergy and Laity, Bishop of the Diocese 
of Xew Jersey. 

On motion of Mr. George E. Sibley, the Convention unani- 
mously declared that the Eev. John Scarborough, D. D., Rector 
of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., is elected Bishop of the 
Diocese of Xew Jersey. 

On motion, the Chair appointed the Rev. Dr. Clark, the Rev. 
Dr. Stubbs, the Rev. Mr. Banister, Mr. Charles E. Mil nor, and 
Mr. A. S. Livingston to wait upon the Rev. Dr. Scarborough, 
and inform him of his election, t 

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Hills, the Convention united in 
singing the Gloria in Excelsis. 

On motion, 

Besokedj That the Canonical Testimony of the Bishop-elect 
be now signed by the Clerical and Lay members of the Conven- 
tion. 

Whereupon, duplicate copies of the Testimonials, beautifully 
engrossed on vellum, were signed by //ify clergymen and ffty- 
nine laymen, those from Burlington being, of the clergy, tlie 

f'Of those appointed at your special Convention, to convey to me in person 
official notice of your action, two only came, a clergyman and a layman. But 
your choice of representatives could not have fallen more worthily. The 
Eev. Samuel A. Clark, D. D., Eector of St. John's Church, Elizabeth, I had first 
learned to knovr well and appreciate, as a man of genial nature and warm 
heart, at the session of the General Convention which met in Baltimore in 
1871. ^ He did all that a friend could do, both as President of 

the Standing Committee and as Chairman of your Special Committee, to make 
the rough places smooth for me. AYhen too ill to write himself, he sent mes- 
sages of love and cheer to me by anothei-'s hand. But just as I was learning 
to lean on this staff, suddenly it broke. The very day before I came here for 
my consecration, he was called hence, and bidden of the Master ' to go up 
higher.' My last official act as Presbyter was to aid the Bishop of Pennsyl- 
vania in the sad rites of burial. ^ * As the funeral train, which was 
carrying the surpliced priest to his last resting-place, reached the city of 
Trenton, the sad, startling news met us, that by a strange and very marked 
coincidence, which all felt, the noble layman, Alfred S. Livingston, who but a 
few short weeks before, had been his companion and your messenger also to 
me, full of life and vigor, and apparently in his prime, or little beyond it, had 
passed away suddenly, ' and was not, for God took him ;' and thus by God's 
inscrutible ordering, another human prop was taken away from me I My 
first official act after my consecration was to assist the Eector of Trinity 
Church, Trenton, at the burial of his Warden and loved parishioner." — Epis- 
copal Address, 1875. 



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Revs. Elviii K. Smith, Robt. L. Goldsborougb, Geo. Morgan 
Hills, Francis J. Clerc ; and of the laity, J. Howard Pugh, 
M. D., and Edward S. Lansing, M. D. 

RESPONSE OF THE COMMITTEE TO BISHOP ODEXHEIMER's 

FAREWELL. 

Rectory of St. Mary's Church, 
Burlington, N. J., Js^v. 14th, 1874. 
^' To the EL Rev. Wm. H. Odenheimer, D. D. : 

^' Beloved Father ix God — At the Special Convention 
of the Diocese of New Jersey, held in St. Mary's Church, Bur- 
lington, on the 12th instant, your valedictory communication 
was received ; and on motion of the Rev. Dr. Clerc, it was ^Re- 
solved unanimously^ That the Deans, the Secretary, and two lay- 
men to be nominated by the chair, be appointed to convey to 
Bishop Odenheimer, our late Diocesan, the response of the Con- 
vention to his loving words and counsel, to assure him of the 
kindly sentiments of the Convention towards him ; and of the 
prayers of the Convention for his restoration to health, and 
lengthened Episcopal services.' 

^' The duty assigned us is both grateful and painful, for it 
refers to an Episcopate from which we are henceforth to be de- 
prived. 

" You came to the Diocese, Rt. Rev. Father, at a time, and 
under circumstances, which made its administration peculiarly 
delicate, and difficult. By your magnanimity and large-hearted- 
ness, manifest from the first day until now, every interest has 
prospered, while clergy and laity have been knit together in 
you personally and officially. Ever ready with a word of cheer, 
your leadership has been ceaseless and unfaltering ; your fidelity 
to every trust, unwearied ; and your singleness of aim, transpa- 
rent ; and had it depended upon our suffrages and not your elec- 
tion, you would have remained the ^ Bishop of Kew Jersey,' 
with the sweet home of Riverside, until called to your great 
reward. Happy years we have seen together ! Years without 
a doubt, or cloud ! Years of peace and comfort ! AYe use no 
doubtful language, beloved Father, when, in the name of the 



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685 



whole Diocese which we represent, we reciprocate your expres- 
sions of warm attachment and undying love. 

Praying the Great Physician to so prosper your voyage and 
all the means for your recovery that you may return to ^ North- 
ern New Jersey ' to bless that, and the whole Church in 
America, as hitherto, with your presence and counsels, we re- 
main. 

Ever your devoted friends, 

" Geo. Morgan Hills, 

"Dea?i of Burlington. 
" Eeskine M. Rodman, 

'^Dean of New Brunswick. 
" Alfred B. Baker, 

^'Secretary of the Convention.. 
" George C. Hance,, 
Joseph H. Thompson.'^ 

THE rev. dr. SCARBOROUGH ACCEPTS THE EPISCOPATE. 

"Pittsburgh, Pa., November 24th, 1874. 
Jb the Revs. Samuel A. Clark, D. D., Alfred Stubbs, D. D., T. Leivis Banister.^ 
and Messrs. Charles E. Milnor, Alfred S.. Livingston', Committee, <Scc, 
"My Dear Brethren — I have delayed my answer to your letter of the 
13th inst., informing me of my election to the Episcopate of Ncav Jersey, in 
order that I might be able to confer personally Av.ith some of you, and to find 
out more fully the mind of the Clergy and Laity of the Diocese. And now. 
with all the facts and information' before me, after the most careful considera- 
tion, and looking to God for His special help and guidance, I am fully per> 
suaded of my duty to accept the high office and responsibilities, to which you 
have called me, with such singular and hearty unanimity. To you, therefore, 
as chosen representatives, and through you to the Diocese, I hereby commu- 
nicate my formal acceptance of the office of a Bishop in the Church of God 
provided the Ecclesiastical authorities of other Dioceses shall confirm my 
election, and consent to my consecration. To those who know the blessings 
and comforts I have had here in ministering to the noble Parish from which 
this action severs me, I need not say that my decision has cost me much of 
anxiety and pain. If, in my future work among you, I shall have the same- 
cordial support I have had here, I could ask no more, without asking an 
impossible service at your hands. 

" During the coming weeks, and always, I crave your earnest prayers, dear 
brethren, that I may have grace and strength sufficient for the sacred work to. 
which, in God's name, I now and here commit myself,, for the remainder ©•£ 



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my life and ministry, wlietlier that be long or short. I can only pledge anew, 
to the Church and to you, a full and honest consecration of myself, all I am 
and all I have, to my work ; Avhile in advance, I beg your considerate for- 
bearance, if in anything I seem to fall short of the noble men who have 
preceded me in this holy office. 

"In love and zeal, 'striving together for the faith of the Gospel,' and the 
up-building of Christ's Kingdom, may we be true yoke-fellows in our work^ 
while we look up to Him for a blessing who alone can give the increase here 
or the reward of faithful service hereafter. 

" Commending you, dear brethren, and the Avhole Diocese, to God's loving 
.care, I am, believe me, 

" Faithfully your friend and servant, 

"John Scarborough." 

BEQUESTS OF MISS H. C. SWANX. 

Miss H. Catharine Swann, of BurliDgton— wlio departed this 
life November 23d, 1874 — after devising to her sister daring 
her life, the interest and income of all her estate, and so much 
of the principal as may be required for her comfort, among other 
bequests made the following : 

^'Secondly. — I give and appoint Two Thousand Dollars to be 
either kept invested securely in Bond and Mortgage, the interest 
of which is to be used by the Rector, Wardens, and Trustees of 
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, in Burlington, for the support of 
either maimed, or sick, or destitute, or aged poor of the Parish ; 
or the Principal may be expended to assist in building or buy- 
ing a House as a Hospital or home for such persons. 

^'Thirdly. — I give and appoint One Thousand Dollars to The 
President and Trustees of St. Agnes School in Albany, New 
York — to be used by the President and Trustees of said School 
for the purpose of educating one pupil at said School, who must 
be the Orphan of an Episcopal Clergyman, * * 

^'Fifthly.—-! give and appoint $500 Five Hundred Dollars 
to the Parish School of St. Mary's Church, Burlington. 

^'Sixthly. — I give and appoint Four Hundred 400 Dollars 
to the Burlington Library. * * 

"Ninthly. — I give and appoint $300 Three Hundred Dollars, 
Provided a further sum of $800 Eight Hundred Dollars be raised 
within three years, the whole to be safely invested by the Rector 
and Wardens of St. Mary's Church, Burlington, and the Interest 



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687 



to be expended yearly in repairing and restoring the Graves 
and Tombstones needing such care in St. Mary's Churchyard, 
Burlington. If however the additional sum be not raised 
within the time specified, the Three Hundred Dollars shall be 
given to the Trustees of Christ Church Hospital for the benefit 
of said Hospital." 



" St. Mary's Rectory, 

''Christmas Eve, 1874. 
" Dear Dr. Walker f — Will you please accept the accom- 
panying Hood of a Doctor in Divinity, in token of the high 
esteem in which you are held by your many friends at the Hall, 
and in the Parish of St. Mary's ; and oblige us by wearing it 
for the first time, to-morrow, Christmas Day ? 

'' Wishing you, and your dear family, all the blessings of this 
holy season, believe us, 

'' Very sincerely yours, 
Mrs. Geo. Morgan Hills, '' Miss Nancy M. Stanley, 

Mrs. Elizabeth K. Hale, " Mrs. Elvin' K. Smith, 

" Mrs. Paladini, " Miss H. T. McPherson, 

" Mrs. George H. Woolman, " Mrs. Edw'd S. Lansing." 

Mrs. C. Ross Grubb, 



DR. walker's response. 

^'To the elect ladies of St. Mary^s Hall and of St. Ma.ry^s Church, 
Burlington : 

''Dearly beloved in the Lord — lam in possession of 
a kind token of your highly valued esteem, which you have 
been pleased to present me. I cannot express how much I 
prize the gift coming from your hands ; and for the expression 
of your feelings accompanying it. You have long been in the 

t The Eev. Win. S, Walker, D. D. — for twenty-five years rector of St. 
John's Church, Ithaca, N. Y., received the honorary Doctorate from Hobart 
College, Geneva, in 1864— came to Burlington to reside, December 30th, 1865. 
On invitation of the rector of St. Mary's, lie has uniformly aided in the ser- 
vices, without appointment, and without compensation. 



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habit of adorning the Gospel which you profess; and now, yon 
seem desirous of adorning its ministers. May we all be clothed 
with Christ's righteousness, and live to the praise of His glory. 
Wishing you all the happiness of the season, 
" I remain. 

Yours in the Gospel of Xt, 

W. S. Walker. 
To Mrs. Geo. Morgan Hills, Miss N. M. Stanley, Mrs. Eliza- 
beth K. Hale, Mrs. Elvin K. Smith, Mrs. Paladini, Miss H. T. 
McPherson, Mrs. Geo. H. Woolman, Mrs. Edward S. Lans- 
ing, and Mrs. C. Ross Grubb." 

THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP SCARBOROUGH. 

Tuesday, the Feast of the Purification, February 2d, 1875, 
was another historic day for the venerable Cathedral city of 
Burlington. Every train of cars brought hosts of Church people 
from all parts of the country to witness the solemnities, first 
witnessed in Burlington, attending the Consecration of a Bishop. 
The weather was as nearly perfect as it could well be in mid- 
winter. The sky was of that bright, cloudless^ inspiring kind, 
which is so famous in this region. At 9 A. M. the chimes from 
St. Mary's spire rang out their joyful notes, and the crowd came 
thronging in to Morning Prayer. The Rt. Rev. William Cros- 
well Doane, D. D., Bishop of Albany, a former rector of the 
parish, vested in surplice, stole andj scarlet hood, officiated, no 
one occupying the chancel with him but the Rev. Dr. Hills, the 
present rector. At the conclusion of this service, the Wardens 
and other lay officials, who acted as ushers, and were designated 
by purple rosettes on the left breast, began their delicate work 
of ribboning off the seats reserved for the families of the Bishops, 
the delegation from Trinity Church, Pittsburgh (the late parish 
of the Bishop Elect), the lay members of the Standing Commit- 
tee of New Jersey, the trustees of Burlington College, and the 
lay deputies to the late Special Convention which elected the 
new Bishop. At 11.15 A. m., St. Mary's Church was filled 
with the largest assemblage since the funeral of Bishop Doane 
in 1859. (See p. 527.) There were at least one thousand 



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present; and many were unable to get even standing room. 
Business in tlie city seemed almost suspended, and many paused 
on their way to listen to the chiming of the bells. 

The clergy, robed in their proper vestments, moved from the 
parish school-room, down Broad street, entered the main gates 
of the churchyard, and were joined at the door of the sacristy 
by the Bishops and those who were to officiate, and thence passed 
round by the tomb of the late Bishop Doane, (to whom Bur- 
lington and the whole Church in the United States owes so 
much) and entered the Church by the west door, the chorus- 
choir, with Mr. Frank K. Hewitt at the organ, leading the pro- 
cessional hymn, 

Onward Christian soldiers, 
Marching as to war." 

Among those present were the following : 

The Et. Eev. Horatio Potter, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., Bishop of New York. 
The Rt. Eev. AVilliam Bacon Stevens, D. D., LL. D,, Bishop of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

The Et. Eev. John B. Kerfoot, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Pittsburgh. 
The Et. Eev. A. N. Littlejohn, D. D., Bishop of Long Island. 
The Et. Eev. William Croswell Doane, D. D., Bishop of Albany. 
The Et. Eev. M. A. DeWolfe Howe, D. D., Bishop of Central Pennsylvania. 
The Et. Eev. Benjamin H. Paddock, D. D., Bishop of Massachusetts. 
The Eev. John Scarborough, D. D., Bishop Elect of New Jersey. 
The Eev. Alfred Stubbs, D. D., President of the Standing Committee. 
The Eev. George Morgan Hills, D. D., Secretary of the Standing Committee. 
The Eev. J. F. Garrison, M. D., and the Eev. N. Pettit, Attendant Pres- 
byters. 

The Eev. Albert B. Baker, Secretary of the Special Convention. 
The Eev. Thomas E. Pynchon, D. D., President of Trinity College, Con- 
necticut. 

The Eev. William Allen Johnson, a former Eector of St. Mary's Church. 
The Eev. J. Breckenridge Gibson, T>. D., and the Eev. A, TenBroeck, 

D. D., former Eectors of Burlington College. 

The Eev. Francis J. Clerc, D. D., Eector of Burlington College. 

Eev. Edward B. Boggs, D. D., Eev. Samuel B. Bostwick, D. D., 

" H. Palethorp Hay, D. D., Marcus F. Hyde, D. D., 

" William A. Matson, D. D., " Alvi T. Twing, D. D., 

^' William S. Walker, D. L>., H. Hastings Weld, D. D., 

" Pelham Williams, D. D., " William A. White, 

" S. Ealph Asbury, " Henry M. Baum, 

" Perceval Beckett, " William S. Boardman, 

" William B. Bolmer, " Gordon M. Bradley, 

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Eev. James W. Bradin, 


Eev. W. B. Burk, 


" John C. Brown, 


(I 


D. W. C. Byllesby, 


Gideon J. Barton, 


u 


Asa S. Colton, 


C. William Camp, 


l( 


A. Sidney Dealey, 


" Thomas H. Cullen, 


(( 


Charles W. Duane, 


" K. E. Dennison, 


u 


George W^. Easter, 


" William K. Earle, 


u 


George McClellan Fisk 


" William Ely, 


t ( 


Samuel Hall, 


" E. L. Goldsborough, 


ii 


Horace B. Hitchings, 


Benjamin Hartley, 


a 


Eobert Hudson 


Samuel F. Hotchkin, 


a 


Levi Johnston, 


" Peter L. Jaques, 




James H. Lamb, 


Cyrus F. Knight, 


u 


L. H. Lighthipe, 


" William H. Lewis, Jr., 


u 


T. Gardiner Littell, 


'■' S. Gregory Lines, 


ii 


F. M. McAllister, 


" D. W. C. Loop, 


ii 


Gustavus M. Murray, 


" William W. Montgomery, 


li 


Louis C. Newman, 


" William H. Neilson, Jr., 


i( 


Levi W. Norton, 


" Edwin G. Nock, 


li 


Charles M. Parkman, 


" Stevens Parker, 


i ( 


Theo. M. Eeilly, 


" Charles M. Perkins, 




Edward M. Eeilly, 


" William M. Keilly, 


a 


E. M. Eodman, 


Edmund Eoberts, 




John Alden Spooner, 


" Lorenzo S. Eussell, 




Thomas A. Stevenson, 


" Albert U. Stanley, 


u 


Charles L. Sykes, 


P. Wilson Stryker, 


li 


George W. Timlow, 


" Stephen H. Synnott, 




W. H. Van Antwerp, 


" Elliott D. Tomkins, 


li 


Albert E. Walker, 


" William H. Vibbert, 


i( 


Merritt H. Wellman, 


" George H. Watson, 


li 


D. Ellis Willes, 



And several others, about a hundred in all. 

xVfter a brief pause for silent prayer, the Bishop of Pennsyl- 
vania commenced the Communion office, the Bishop of Albany 
reading the Epistle, and the Bishop of Long Island the Holy 
Gospel. The Nicene Creed was then said ; and the Hymn, in 
MEMORIAM, Thou art the way/^ was sung to the tune of Bur- 
lington. 

The Bishop of Pittsburgh then preached on The Pastoral 
Office of a Bishop, from the words: "T/ie Shpherd and 
Bishop of your souls.^^ I St. Peter ii. 25. 

After the ascription, Gloria Patri was sung, followed by the 
Hymn, 

" Lord, pour Thy Spirit from on high. 
And Thine ordained servants bless," 

to the tune of Old Hundredth. 



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The elected Bishop, vested with his rochet, was then presented 
by the Bishops of Albany and Massachusetts to the Bishop of 
New York, the empowered Consecrator for the occasion, sitting 
in his chair, which had been placed in the choir, not far from 
the chancel-arch, the Presenters unitedly saying, " Reverend 
Father in God, we present unto you this godly and well-learned 
man, to be Ordained and Consecrated Bishop/^ The Consecrator 
demanded Testimonials of the person presented, and caused them 
to be read. Whereupon the Rev. Alfred B. Baker, Rector of 
Trinity Church, Princeton, and Secretary of the Special Conven- 
tion which elected Dr. Scarborough, produced and read, the 
original Testimonial signed by the clerical and lay deputies of 
the late Special Convention. 

The Rev. Dr. Hills then presented and read the following : 

III the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
Ghost. Amen. 

I, George Morgan Hills, D. D., Rector of St. Mary's Church, 
Burlington, N. J., and Secretary of the Standing Committee of 
the Diocese of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that on the 17th 
day of December, A. d. 1874, in behalf of the said Standing 
Committee, and in accordance with the requirements of § III, 
Canon 13, Title I of the Digest of Canons, I forwarded to the 
Rt. Rev. Benjamin B. Smith, D. D., LL. D., Presiding Bishop 
of the House of Bishops, the evidence, that a majority of the 
Standing Committees of all the Dioceses of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, had consented, in the words of the Testimonial 
required by said Canon, to the proposed Consecration of the 
Rev. John Scaeborough, D. D., as Bishop of New Jersey. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand and 
the seal of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of New Jer- 
sey, in the City of Burlington, N. J., on this Second day of 
February, being the Feast of the Purification, in the year of our 
Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-five. 

George Morgan Hills, 
Secretary of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Neiv Jersey. 



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The Rev. Dr. Stubbs then presented and read as follows : 

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 

Ghost. Amen. 

1, Benjamin Bosworth Smithy D. D., LL. D., by Divine per- 
mission Bishop of Kentucky, and Presiding Bishop in the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 
do hereby certify that a majority of the Bishops of said Church 
have, in accordance with the requirements of sub-section [2] of 
Section III, of Canon 13, of Title I of the Canons of said 
Church, given their consent to the consecration of the Reverend 
JoHx Scarborough, D. D., Presbyter and Rector of Trinity 
Church, Pittsburgh, in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, as Bishop of 
the Diocese of Jsew Jersey. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my hand and 
seal as Presiding Bishop aforesaid, in the city of Hoboken, on 
this Twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord 1875, 
and in the forty-third of my Consecration. 

B. B. Smith, 

Presiding Bishop. 

Attest : Hexry C. Potter, 
Rector of Grace Church, Neic York, and Secretary of the House 
of Bishops. 

The Consecrator required of the Bishop-Elect the Promise of 
Conformity, which he made as follows : 

In the Name of God, Amen. I, John Scarborough, Doctor of 
Divinity, chosen Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 
the Diocese of Xew Jersey, do promise conformity and obedience to 
the Doctrine, Discipline, and Worship of the Protestant Episco- 
pal Church in the United States of America. So help me God, 
through Jesus Christ. 

The Consecrator then moved the congregation present to pray, 
and the Bishop of Massachusetts said the Litany, introducing 
the special Suffrage for the Bishop-Elect. The Consecrator 
then questioned the Bishop-Elect in certain Articles, that the 
congregation might bear witness how^ he was minded to behave 
himself in the Church of God." After the Collect that he 



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might have strength and power to perform all these things^ the 
rest of the Episcopal habit was put upon the Bishop-Elect by 
his Attendant Presbyters, the Eev. J. F. Garrison, M. D., and 
the Eev. Nathaniel Pettit, and kneeling down, the seven Bishops 
present encircled him, and said responsively the Veni Creator 
Spiritus. Another prayer followed, when the Consecrator and 
the other six Bishops laid their hands on the head of the elected 
Bishop, still kneeling in their midst, the Consecrator saying, 
" Eeceive the Holy Ghost for the Office and Work of a Bishop 
in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Impo- 
sition of our hands ; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, 
and of the Holy Ghost. ' Amen. And remember that thou stir 
up the grace of God, w^hich is given thee by this Imposition of 
our hands : for God hath not given us the spirit of fear ; but of 
power, and love, and soberness.^^ 

Then the Consecrator delivered to him the Bible, saying the 
words prescribed. 

\Yhen he arose from his knees, the new Bishop, thus duly 
commissioned as Diocesan of New Jersey, was escorted to the 
Episcopal throne by his presenters, the Bishops of Albany and 
Massachusetts — the whole congregation singing the hymn, 
" Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty,^' to the tune of Niccea. 

The offertory followed, the offerings being received by four 
Deacons in surplices, and afterwards divided ecjually between 
the Convocations of Burlington and New Brunswick. 

After the prayer for Christ^s Church militant, those in the 
vast congregation (many of whom had stood during the entire 
services), who did not wish to remain, withdrew from the 
Church ; and the Bishop of Central Pennsylvania continued the 
Communion office, the Bishop of New York, as the Conse- 
crator, being celebrant. 

The Ter Sanctus was sung, and the single stanza, Hail ! 
sacred feast," to the tune of Quebec. 

The Bishop of New York communicated all the Bishops 
present ; the Bishops of Pennsylvania, Long Island, Central 
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts communicated the other clergy ; 
and the Bishops of Albany and New Jersey, aided by the Eev. 



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Dr. Pynchon, President of Trinity College, Hartford, and the 
Rev. Dr. Hills, Rector of St. Mary's Church, communicated the 
faithful laity. After the blessing, the congregation remained in 
their places, while the bishops and clergy left the Church in the 
same order in which they entered it, the choir and people sing- 
ing for a recessional, Hark, hark, my soul,'^ to the tune of 
Vox Angelica. 

The bishops, clergy, lay deputies, and their families, were in- 
vited to unite with the parishioners, including the teachers and 
pupils of St. Mary's Hall and Burlington College, in extending 
to the Bishop of New Jersey a welcome to Riverside ^ where a 
sumptuous collation was spread, and where nearly all remained 
in social enjoyment till half-past four or five o'clock. 

Thus passed the greatest ecclesiastical day in the history of 
Burlington. t 

TWO ADDITIONAL ALMS BASONS. 

Two silver alms basons, corresponding in size, weight, and 
finish, with the two which have been so long used, (see p. 261,j 
and p. 466,) were received on the 27th of March. In the centre 
of each, is the sacred monogram, handsomely wrought ; and on 
the bottom of each, is the inscription : " Presented to the Rev"^ 
George Morgan Hills, D. D., for the use of St. Mary's Church, 
Burlington, N. J., by Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ellis, on Easter Day, 
187o."§ 

f "In thus recalling incidents that are yet fresh in memory, I must not fail 
to name here, and acknowledge the debt of gratitude we owe this venerable 
Parish, for its' generous and bountiful entertainment, and its Rector, for the 
pains-taking care and good taste which marked every detail of that beautiful 
service, which put in ray hand the chief pastor's statF. Nothing was unthought 
of, and everything was done with most perfect decency and order." — Episcopal 
Address, 1875. 

t Since that page (261) left the press, an old deed discloses that Mrs. Kath- 
erine Peirce was the daughter of Gov. Bass, who married first Eobert Talbot, 
(see p. 196,) and afterwards Edward Peirce, who was a Churchwarden in 1733. 
Among the burial entries of Dr. Odell, is this : "March 30th, 1774, Catherine — 
Widow of Edward Pearce." 

§ The only other plate, in possession of the parish, not mentioned in these 
pages, is a chalice and paten, without name or date, supposed to be the first in 
use. The chalice, which is about half the ordinary size, has on its stem three 
angel-heads in full relief ; and upon one of the faces of its hexagonal base, a 
crucifix. The convex side of the paten has I. H. S. in large letters, above 
which is a straight sword; and below, the sacred heart, pierced with three 
nails, and in its side, a fresh wound. 



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695 



MONUMENT TO SIE A. B. ENGSTROM.f 

The executors of the late Sir Andreas B. Engstrom, in April, 
1875, erected over his grave, in St. Mary's Churchyard, a coped 
tomb, formed from two blocks, one of Pennsylvania marble, and 
the other of Italian marble. 

At the head of the latter, in full relief, is an enlarged fac- 
simile of the jewel of his knighthood, under wdiich is the Nor- 
wegian motto, JUSTICE AND TRUTH.'' 

At the foot, also in full relief, is an anchor, suggestive of his 
early life at sea, as well as the Christian's hope. 

The ends of the hoodings are finished with well wrought oak 
leaves. 

On the right side are the words, " sir Andreas b. engstrom, 
KNIGHT of the ORDER OF ST. OLAF;" and on the left side, the 

words, " FOR THIRTY-SIX YEARS AN INSTRUCTOR IN ST. MARY's 
HALL." 

In the hood on the right side, is the inscription, " born in 
ARENDAL, NORWAY, MAY IST, 1794 ;" in that ou the left, 
DIED IN BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY, APRIL 19tH, 1874." 

EXTRACTS FROM BISHOP SCARBOROUGH'S FIRST EPISCOPAL 

ADDRESS. 

^'Among the very first questions I had to meet and settle was 
that of my future residence, and it was the most difficult and 
complicated question I have as yet had to face. It is clue to 
you, as representatives of the whole Diocese, that I state in 
brief, some of the reasons which led me to break the traditions 
of the Diocese, and make a change. Riverside, by its tender 
associations, had fixed itself in the minds of many, as the only 
possible home for the Bishop and his family; and I confess I 
held to this same opinion, till I came here and saw for myself. 
I then found, that it would be utterly impossible for me to 

t Andreas B. Engstrom, a native of Norway, but for fifty years resident in 
America, was an instructor in drawing and painting in St. Mary's Hall, from 
its foundation until the year before his death. In May, 1872, he received 
from the King of Norway and Sweden, the diploma and jewel of Knight of 
the Order of St. Olaf." He departed this life April 19th, 1874, and. his 
burial was attended on the 24:th of April, by the trustees, teachers, and pupils 
of St. Mary's H]all and Burlington College, in a body. 



696 HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



maintain such an establishment, with the means you had been 
able to put at my disposal. A majority of the Standing Com- 
mittee entertained the same view. And the more enquiry I 
made, among the clergy and laity throughout the Diocese, the 
more convinced did I become, that my impression was but too 
true. And as I have made it a maxim of my life ^to owe no 
man anything,' I hesitated about assuming a burden and a 
responsibility, which might harass me, or possibly involve me in 
debt. The house had cost the Diocese an annual rental of 
nearly §1000, for the past ten years, to keep it in repairs, and 
pay taxes and insurance. Many, I found, thought this a heavy 
burden. Then, too, there was immediate need of a large out- 
lay for repairs, before it could be comfortably occupied. This 
I found the Diocese was not prepared to meet ; and the trustees 
of Burlington College, being the mere guardians or custodians 
of the title, ought not, if they were willing, to be taxed for the 
maintenance of a property from which they derive no revenues. 
Meantime the importance of other places of residence was 
urged upon me, and after weighing as carefully as I could all 
the claims, and all the interests involved, it seemed to me that 
Trenton had most to commend it, as the Capital city of the 
State, as a large and growing centre of Church life, as well as a 
great railroad focus, and very convenient of access, to and from 
every part of the Diocese. The use 'of a house was offered 
there, one of the most beautiful homes in the city, without cost 
to the Diocese or to me. We are indebted for this, mainly, if 
not wholly, to one large-hearted layman, Mr. Samuel Iv. Wil- 
son (I trust he will pardon me for thus publicly naming him), 
who has not only been thus generous to the Diocese and to me, 
but has in many ways beside, added materially to my comfort. 
Eventually, I trust a house will be either purchased or built 
in Trenton, and become the property of the Diocese, thus fixing 
permanently the See city in the State Capital. I delayed the 
decision of this question nearly three months, and gave it as 
thorough and fair consideration as I could, and I am strongly 
persuaded that I have done that which is best for all the 
interests concerned, and best for myself. If I have made a mis- 



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take, and time shall prove it so, I shall strive to be as frank 
and independent in confessing and mending it, as I have been 
in making it. 

" If any think the change suggested, or brought about, by a 
lack of interest in the schools, they were never more mistaken. 
Had I thought for a moment that these important institutions 
would suffer harm, my own choice and comfort would not have 
had a feather's weight as against them. But I am satisfied'they 
will gain, rather than lose, in efficiency. The heads of the 
College and St. Mary's Hall will find their authority strength- 
ened, by not having too near at hand, a ready source of appeal; 
and in any emergency I shall be easily accessible, being only 
distant forty minutes, with ready communication nearly every 
hour. There is always danger in divided responsibility. In- 
deed, the Bishop cannot, consistently with other duties, and 
perhaps he ought not if he could, take any active part in school 
work, or school discipline. His office as Visitor gives him ample 
power, and all the rights he can claim or exercise. His interests 
are so divided, and his time of necessity so broken up into frag- 
ments, that it is impossible for him to do more than take a gen- 
eral oversight of the schools, without hindering his other work 
in the Diocese. This can and will still be done as impartially 
and effectually, I trust, as it ever was. 

" While speaking of the schools, let me add a word further,, 
as to their place and importance in this Diocese, and in the 
Avhole Church. IS'o one familiar with the history of St. Mary's 
Hall, need be reminded of the fact, that it has wielded a vast 
and wide-spread influence, since its first organization. It has 
impressed itself very strongly on the age, and has stood con- 
fessedly at the head of Church institutions in this country. Its 
steady, unfaltering success, has made it a pioneer, and others 
have eagerly copied its main features, till there is now a numer- 
ous progeny of daughters all over the land. Wherever its grad- 
uates are found, they are not only enthusiastic in their loyalty 
to their Alma Mater, but as a rule are devout and earnest 
church women. We shall meet them here this week, with pride 
and joy, as they return in large numbers to celebrate the found- 



698 



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er's birthday ; and, while they recall the happy associations of 
their girlhood, and revive the blessed memories that still linger 
here, they are to band themselves together, more compactly, in 
a permanent and lasting organization, that will give fresh life 
and impetus to the noble work of their Ahna Mater. The past 
year has been one of singular trial to the Hall, but adversity 
has only served to prove its efficiency and strength. Its patron- 
age is undiminished, save for the brief portion of the present 
year, and confidence in it is unshaken. Advantage was taken 
of the time when school duties were suspended, in the winter, 
to make some radical changes and improvements in the buildings ; 
and others are still in contemplation, which, when completed, 
will keep St. Mary's, so far as everything that can minister to 
health and outward comfort, still in the forefront of institutions 
for the education of women. I commend the school heartily to 
the patronage and confidence of all who are seeking a safe place 
for the education of their daughters. 

^' Burlington College has not been so fortunate as the Hall. 
It has experienced more of the changes and chances of American 
institutions in their first years of struggle. Had its founder 
been spared, he might have been able to settle it on a firm and 
lasting foundation. The preparatory department is well organ- 
ized and prosperous, with a full and efficient faculty. The 
College proper will be revived whenever the available means 
can be had for that purpose. If it could have even a moderate 
endowment, there is a field and a work ready for it. It would 
be a fitting and noble tribute, to the memory and the name of 
its founder and first president, if his friends would unite their 
strength, and make the College a memorial of him, while they 
put it beyond the fear, or the possibility of want or failure for 
all time:'—3Iay 2hth, 1875. 

RE-UNION AT ST. MARY's HALL. 

It was lately proposed that the ladies, who hav^e been going 
out from this Christian school for well-nigh forty years, should 
gather again in the courts of their Alma Mater. No such re- 
union had ever taken place. The idea was hailed with delight, 
and a committee was appointed to arrange a programme. On 



IX BUELIXGTOX. 699 

the Feast of the Anuunciation, a circular addressed to the grad- 
uates, was issued by IMiss Caroline L. Mitchell, on behalf of the 
Committee, from which we quote : 

^ We ask you to come back to your dear Alma Mater on the 
anniyersary of Bishop Doane^s birth, May 27th. It is proposed 
to have an address by the Bishop of Albany, in St. Mary's 
Church, on Thursday, May 27th, together Vvdth Morning Prayer 
and the Holy Communion ; to dine at the Hall, and spend the 
afternoon and evening in social intercourse; to attend the Even- 
ing Prayer in the school chapel, when brief addresses may be 
made by the Bishop of Xew Jersey, and other prominent friends 
of the Institution. On the morning of Friday, the 28th, the 
business meeting should be held, which will result, it is hoped, 
in the organization of an Alumnse Association ; thus insuring, 
from time to time, the re-assembling of the graduates. At 12 
o'clock there will be the usual noonday service in the chapel, 
and a Memorial Address, commemorative of Bishop Doane. 
A Musical Rehearsal, by the pupils of the Hall, will close the 
day.' " 

" This order was faithfully and felicitously carried out. The 
27th was one of the fairest days of the month. The earliest 
ceremony of the day was that beautiful custom, annually ob- 
served on this day, of wreathing with flowers that portrait of 
Bishop Doane, which looks down from the Library walls at St. 
Mary's Hall. In the resplendent morning light, through the 
dewy leaves, and grassy mounds, and cross-topped stones of 
'sweet St. Mary's' churchyard, a constant stream of pilgrims 
wended to the resting place (as the inscription on his tomb reads) 
'Aidae. Sandae. JIariae. Fundatoris.' All bore flowers. First 
it was a priest with uncovered head ; then a gray -haired pro- 
fessor of the Hall ; then the sombre habit of a sister of one of 
our Church's religious orders ; and then daughters of the school, 
and little children. That massive cruciform tomb, never with- 
out its flowers, was truly a floriated cross, and it seemed to 
signify of him, whose body lay beneath it, that his cross of 
suffering had verily become a cross of triumph. 

" The graduates to the number of one hundred and fifty and 
upward, met at the Hall at ten o'clock, and a long procession 
of past and present pupils was soon passing down the embow- 
ered bank, under the ancient trees, and beside that quiet river. 



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walking to the music of the melodious chimes that rang from the 
tower of St. Mary's Church. There is a great contrast between 
the * Hall girls ' of to-day and yesterday. The former are 
bright, and fresh, and of joyous spirit. The latter have many a 
shrouded figure among them, and there are but few faces, which 
do not bear the traces of grief. But all live over again their 
girlish days, as they walk to Church in the old familiar paths. 

At the Church, the nave was reserved for the graduates, and 
it was filled to overflowing. Morning Prayer was said by the 
Rev. Dr. Hills, rector of St. Mary's Church, and the Rev. Dr. 
Clerc, rector of Burlington College, the Absolution being pro- 
nounced by the Bishop of New Jersey. The Ante-Communion 
w^as said by the Bishop of Albany, assisted in the Epistle by the 
Rev. Mr. Smith, principal of the Hall, and in the Gospel by the 
Rev. Dr. Millett, of Holmesburg, Pa., a former principal. The 
Bishop of Albany then delivered an address from III St. John, 
iv, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children tvalk in 
the truth. As this is to be published, we will not attempt to give 
an idea of it. 

" The Bishop of Albany then proceeded with the Holy Com- 
munion, being assisted in the celebration by the Bishop of New 
Jersey, the Rev. Dr. Millett, and the Rev. Mr. Smith. The 
Rev. Principal Smith announced that the Offertory would be 
divided between two graduates of the Hall, for church work in 
which they are engaged ; the one the head of an orphanage in 
China, the other the wife of an English clergyman, who is re- 
storing his parish church, an edifice of the age of William the 
Conqueror and William Rufus. 

" Besides the clergy mentioned, there were present in the chan- 
cel, in surplices, the Rev. Dr. Gallaudet, of New York ; the 
Rev. Mr. Stansbury, of Newark ; the Rev. Dr. Hyde, and the 
Rev. Messrs. Parkman, Perkins, and Fisk, of New Jersey. 

"After the services, dinner was served at the Hall, when 
speeches were made by the Bishops of Albany and New Jersey, 
and the Rev. Drs. Hills and Millett. 

^^The afternoon was delightfully spent in the time-honored 
apartments of the Hall, and in the pleasant grounds. Old ac- 



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quaintances were renewed, old associations revived, and new 
interest in the school awakened, by a sight of the improvements 
which have been made in every department. 

"At evening the ^ gable bell/ which swings in ^the cross- 
topped belfry/ was rung, and prayers were said in the chapel, 
after which graceful addresses were made by the Bishop of New 
Jersey and the Rev. Dr. Hills. 

''On Friday morning a business meeting was held in the 
school-room. A permanent organization was effected, and Miss 
C. L. Mitchell, of Burlington, was elected President. It was 
decided to hold a business meeting, yearly, and general social 
re-unions every five years. Steps were taken to found a Schol- 
arship at the Hall. 

" At noon a short service was held in the chapel, and a memo- 
rial address was delivered by the Principal. It was a faithful 
portraiture of Bishop Doane, drawn from life, and personal in- 
tercourse. As this address will also be published, it will be 
doing it best justice to describe it no further here. 

•'At four o'clock a musical rehearsal was given in the school- 
room. The choruses were particularly sweet, and it was all 
unusually interesting. The most memorable features of the pro- 
gramme were a Grand March, ' The Pe-union,' dedicated to 
the Alumnae, written for the occasion by Mr. G. W. Hewitt, 
Professor of Music at the Hall ; and a song, being a poem of 
Bishop Doane's, ' What is that. Mother ?^ set to music by Prof. 
Hewitt. 

"This concluded the first reunion. The graduates all passed 
to the office of the Principal, and recorded their names and ad- 
dresses, the matrons giving both the old and the new. A tender 
and loving memento of this festival was a little poem by Miss 
Mitchell, entitled '•' Heart's Ease — for Pemembrance,' which 
was distributed ameng the graduates. And still another of a 
more practical character, was a little pamphlet, ' A Letter about 
Reading and Books ; for the Pupils and Graduates of St. Mary's 
Hall,' by the Pev. Principal, a very timely and suggestive 
paper. 

"I beg that space may be allowed for a word of public testi- 
mony to the eminent services of the vice-principal. Miss Stanley. 



702 



HISTOKY OF THE CHURCH 



Her name is mentioned because she and her noble fame belons: 
to the Church at large. She is so inwoven with the story and 
success of this school, that hers will be an historic character. St. 
Mary's Hall is one of the crown-jewels of the Church in Amer- 
ica, and the vast throng of those who receive her benefits, are 
indebted for them, under God, to two persons chiefly, the fbunrler, 
and the vice-principal. 

" A grateful incident of the occasion was the placing in the 
chapel a polished brass lectern, the gift of the Principal and his 
wife. It bears this inscription : ^ For mercies manifold, a 
Thank-offering from a Priest and his wife. May 27th, a. d. 
1875.' ''—Rev. Geo. McChUan Fish. 

ADMIRAL DE CAMP.f 

On the 14th day of June, 1875, Rear Admiral John De Camp, 
U. S. N., was baptized on his sick-bed, at his residence on the 
southwest corner of AYood and Union streets, Burlington, by 
the Rev. Dr. Hills ; his w4fe, son, and daughter, and the Rev. 
Geo. McClellan Fisk being present. The Admiral entered into 
rest June 24th, aged 63 years. His remains were taken for in- 
terment to Morristown, N. J. 

J John De Camp -^-as born at Morristown, J., in 1812 ; and was appointed 
a midshipman in the Navy, from Florida, on the 1st of October, 1827. His 
iirst active service was on the sloop Vandalia, of the Brazil squadron, in 
1829-30. On June 10, 1833, he was promoted to Passed Midshipman. After 
duty on the frigate Constellation, of the "West India squadron in 1837, he was 
commissioned Lieutenant on February 28, 1838. In 1840, he was again on 
duty on the Brazilian station, being attached to the sloop Peacock, and in 
1815-46 to the sloo^ Boston, of the same squadron. During the war with 
Mexico in 1846-47, he distinguished himself at the battle of Vera Cruz. His 
next field of duty was the Pacific squadron, on the sloop Falmouth^ in 1850 : 
then the coast of Africa, on the frigate Constitution, in 1854 ; and on Septem- 
ber 14, 1855, he received his commission as Commander. He was subse- 
quently attached to the Brooklyn IS"avy Yard, and on duty as a Lighthouse 
Inspector. The outbreak of the Rebellion found him in command of the 
storeship Relief, from which he was ordered, in 1861, to the command of the- 
steam sloop Iroquois, of the Western Gulf Blockading squadron. This was 
one of the vessels of Flag-Officer Farragut's fleet, which made the passage of 
Forts Jackson and St. Philip, on the 24th of April, 1862, previous to the cap- 
ture of isew Orleans. The vessel of Commander De Camp was on picket 
duty, about a mile in advance of the main squadron, on the night of the 23d 
and 24th. In the perilous passage of the Eebel Forts, the Iroquois occupied 
a position id the Second Division, under Captain Bell. By 4 o'clock on the 
morning of the 24tli, she was hotly engaged with the forts, and shortly after- 
ward a Eebel ram and gunboat came astern and poured into the Iroquois a 
most destructive fire of grape shot and langrage, most of which was copper 



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703 



EESTOEATIOX OF THE OLD CHrECH.f 

At a meeting of the Vestry of St. Mary's Clinrch, April 6tb^ 
1875, it was 

Resohed, That a committee of five be appointed to sectire a 
plan, and devise ways and means for the conversion of the old 
Church into rooms for the Sunday School, and other parish pur- 
poses. 

On the 12th of July, the committee reported progress; and 
William D. Hewitt, architect, submitted plans and specifications 
to the Vestry. 

slugs. An ll-inch shell and a stand of canister driven into the gunboat drove 
her off, and the Iroquois proceeded, only to suffer severely from the raking 
cross-fire of Fort St. Philip. As De Camp's vessel passed the forts, she was 
beset by five or six Eebel steamers, to each of which she gave a broadside of 
shell as she passed, nearly every one of her assailants being completely de- 
stroyed. Four miles above the forts the Iroquois captured a well equipped 
gunboat and forty Eebel soldiers. The Iroquois lost eight men killed and 
twenty-four wounded, and was badly injured in her hull. Commander De 
Camp subsequently took part in all the engagements on the Mississippi, up to 
and including the capture of Yicksburg, and for his gallantry at Xew Orleans 
was commissioned Captain on July 16, 1862, He commanded the frigate 
WahasTi, of the South Atlantic squadron, in 1863-64 : and was commissioned 
Commodore on September 28, 1866. In 1866-67, he commanded the Potomac, 
when at Pensacola as a storeship, and his last active duty was as commander 
of the same vessel, Avhile stationed at Philadelphia as a receiving ship, in 
1868-69. On July 13, 1870, he was made Eear Admiral on the Eetired List. 
He was in active service forty-three years, over eighteen of which were passed 
at sea. He was one of the ablest and bravest, of the old school of naval 
officers. An illustration of his daring was furnished on one occasion when, 
while suffering from illness, he caused himself to be fastened in the chains of 
his vessel, and lost part of an ear by a fragment of a Eebel shell. Admiral 
De Camp came to Burlington to reside in 1871, where he attended St. Mary's 
Church, as regularly as his impaired health would permit. He was ever 
ready to contribute, according to his means, for the promotion of Church 
objects. He was a great reader, and during the last years of his life turned 
his attention to several religious books. Bishop Hopkins' " End of Contro- 
versy Controverted," gave him especial pleasure. A day was fixed for his- 
public baptism in the Church, two years before his last sickness, but an attack 
of illness prevented it. 

t From tlie beginning of this work until its completion, in the daily morn- 
ing and evening prayers at St. Mary's Church, the following, set forth by the 
rector and sanctioned by the Bishop, was ofiered : 

A prayer; 

To he offered during the restoration of old St. Mary's Church, Burlington, X. 

Blessed be Thy name, O Lord, that it hath pleased Thee to put it into the 
hearts of Thy servants to build the old wastes, the desolations of many gen- 
erations. Direct the counsels of those to whom the plan is entrusted. Guard 
and defend the workmen from accident and harm. Bring it to a safe and 
happy completiron. Bless its friends and benefactors ; and grant that all who 
shall enjoy the benefit of this pious work may show forth their thankfttlness- 
by making a right usaof it, through Jasus Christ, our Lord. Araen. 



704 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



On the 9th of August, the Rector, Wardens, Edward T. Dug- 
dale, and Henry B. Grubb, were empowered to solicit further 
subscriptions, make a contract and complete the work. 

Mr. Henry B. Grubb was appointed Treasurer of the Com- 
mittee, and the following subscriptions were received: Anony- 
mous, §800; Euphemia B. Grubb, E. Burd Grubb, each 8500 ; 
C. Ross Grubb, Florence R. Grubb, Charles Ellis, Elizabeth A. 
Ellis, Geo. Morgan Hills, J. Howard Pugh, Julie E. Reynolds, 
William S. Walker, Franklin Woolman, each SlOO ; Laura Col- 
let, William Hance, R. C. McMartrie, Elizabeth M. L. Paladini, 
Xancy M. Stanley, the Misses Wetherill, each $50 ; Charles E. 
Allen, Virginia L. Allen, Sarah P. Cleveland, Edward T. Dug- 
dale, Anna Earl, W. D'Olier, Geo. A. Rogers, Souder & Hugg, 
John Wm. Wallace, Geo. H. Woolman, each 825; James H. 
Castle, Harriet T. Mcpherson, each SIO; Isaac Kimball, 85. 

A contract, for §5091.00, was made in September, with James 
Wilson, master-builder, who associated with him, William A. 
Goodher, mason. The work was begun on the 12th of that 
month, and continued without interruption under the personal 
inspection of the architect and committee, Mr. Grubb devoting 
much thought and time to it, almost daily. 

During its progress, the interest of the people was unusually 
great, and it was a subject of universal gratulation that this his- 
toric house, in which so many generations praised God, was not 
permitted to be demolished, but restored for sacred purposes. f 

f Under this structure several sleep who '"'once knelt down in its aisle." 
One stone, covering their place of entombment, bears this inscription : " Eev. 
Chas. H. Whartox, D. J)., died July 23d, 1833, Aged 86. Axx AVhaetox 
died June 20th, 1834, Aged 63." Xo't far from this, a similar stone reads : 
'•'Sacred to the memory of John H. Care,: Born in Birmingham, England. 
He did honorable service for more than thirty years in the navy of the United 
States : and died in Burlington, Xew Jersey, October 18, 1833; aged 71 years. 
Of simple and unostentatious habits, he loved to exercise a liberal hospitality : 
retiring and reserved by nature, he was an affectionate husband, a good neigh- 
bour, and a generous friend. Beloved for his candour and kindness, by those 
who knew him well ; all respected him as an honest and honorable man. ThU 
stone records the grief of his bereaved v:idov:." 

The places of others are not designated, but when we reflect that the first 
Bishop in America, (see p. 211) and he who ought to be regarded as the 
earliest statesman of America, (see p. 164) are there, we have enough to war- 
rant us in considering this restored fabric one of the most interesting and 
sacred in this country. 



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705 



DIAGEAM OF THE EESTOEED CHUECH. 

The followiDg is the architect's diagram, showing the arraDge- 
ments of the old Church restored, for the Sanday, and Parish 
Schools : 




a. The ancient Holy Table. 

b. b. Chairs for the Clergy. 

c. c. c. "Windows. 

d. d. d. Doors. 

€. e. e. Foldinof-doors. 



/'. Entrance to Parish School Eoom. 

g. West porch. 

h. Teacher's desk on foot-pace. 



i. Cabinet-organ. 



Lectnrn. 



All the rooms are appropriately furnished with forms, desks, 
and chairs. 

2y 



706 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



THE BENEDICTION OF THE OLD CHUECH OF ST. MARY. 

Few events have taken place in Burlington during the past 
quarter of a century which have awakened a deeper interest than 
the re-opening of the venerable fabric on the corner of Broad 
and "Wood streets, which has been so elegantly restored. 

It w^as the Feast of the Purification, a day in the Churches 
calendar, which has no superior in appropriateness for such a 
solemnity. 

The Holy Eucharist had been said at the present Parish 
Church, according to usage on every Holy Day, at 9 o'clock 
the Bishop of New Jersey being celebrant, assisted by the Rector, 
and the Rev. Nathaniel Pettit, rector of Christ Church, Borden- 
town. 

At 10 o'clock, the old bell — bearing the date 1769 — in the 
quaint belfry of the restored building, after long silence, was 
heard once more, calling to the special Office of the day, which 
was prepared, expressly for the occasion, by the Rector. 

There was a very large congregation in attendance, including 
the teachers and children of the Sunday and Parish Schools, in 
a body ; and the families of St. Mary's Hall and Burlington 
College, the latter in their uniform for dress parade. The clergy 
present were the Bishop of Northern New Jersey, the Bishop of 
New Jersey, the Rev. Drs. Hills, Hoffman, Hyde, Clerc and 
Walker, and the Rev. Messrs. Smith, Pettit, Goldsborough, 
Lighthipe, Willes, Burton, Hotchkin and Fisk. 

At lOJ o'clock, the bishops and other clergy, in their official 
vestments, were received at the southwest entrance by the 
Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestrymen, when the Rector, ad- 
dressing the Bishop of the Diocese, said : 

Reverend Father in God — I hold in my hand the original deed for the land 
on which we stand. It was purchased on the 6th of March, 1702, from certain 
men, styled " Yeomen," by Nathaniel Westland, Robert "Wheeler and Hugh 
Huddy, as ffeoffees in Trust, for the Erecting a Church & other build- 
ings as occasion may serve for Charitable uses.^' 

The Church was built in 1703 ; extended westward, in 1769; extended east- 
ward, in 1811 ; increased in accommodation, in 1821 ; made cruciform by en- 
largement north and south, and consecrated, in 1834 ; and finally left for the 
new Church, in 1854. Thus, for more than a hundred and fifty years, the 
land was used for a Church in accordance with the first clause of the provision 
of its deed. We meet to-day, Rt. Rev. Father, to ask that the second clause of 
this provision in its deed may be complied with ; and that you will bless the 
restored building, for its " charitable uses," now that " occasion serves." 



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Here the Rector read the minute of the Vestry of St. Mary's, 
adopted last month, requesting the Bishop to perform this office. 
The Bishops and Clergy, advancing into the building, said : 

The Bishop — O God, Ave Jiave heard with our ears, and our fathers have de- 
clared unto us, the noble works that thou didst in their days, and in the old 
time before them. 

Mesponse — Lord, arise, help us, and deliver us for thine honour. 

Bishop — Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; 

Response — As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, ivorld without 
end. Amen. 

Bishop — Blessed be Thy holy Name, O Lord, for all Thy servants departed, 
this life in Thy faith and fear : give us grace so to follow their good examples, 
that Avith them we may be partakers of Thy heavenly kingdom. Grant this, 
O Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen. 

Blessed be Thy Name, O Lord, that it hath pleased Thee to put it into the 
hearts of Thy servants to build the old wastes, the desolations of many genera- 
tions. Grant that all who shall enjoy the benefit of this pious work, may show 
forth their thankfulness, by making a right use of it, through Jesus Christ, 
our Lord. Amen. 

Vouchsafe, O Lord, to hallow this place afresh, that whatsoever defilements 
it may have contracted in the time of its desolation, being purged and done 
away, it may be presented pure and without spot before Thee, through Jesus 
Christ, our Lord. Amen. 

Almighty and everliving God, we humbly beseech Thy Majesty, that as Thy 
only-begotten Son was this day presented in the temple in substance of our 
flesh, so we may be presented' unto Thee with pure and clean hearts, by the 
same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Our Father, Who art in heaven, etc. 

The Bishops and Clergy, having reached the west door, made 
the circuit of the entire interior of the building. Parish School 
room, Bible Class rooms and Sunday School room, saying 
responsively 

Psalm cxxvi. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion, then were 
we like unto them that dream. 

Then was our mouth filled uuth laughter, and our tongue with joy. 

Then said they among the heathen. The Lord hath done great things for 
them. 

Yea, the Lord hath done great things for us already ; ivhereof we rejoice. 
Turn our captivity, O Lord, as the rivers in the south. 
They that soiu in tears, shall reap in joy. 

He that now goeth on his way weeping, and beareth forth good seed, shall 
doubtless come again with joy, and bring his sheaves with him. 

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost ; 

As it Avas in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. 
Amen. 

Psalm cxxvii. Except the Lord build the house, their labour is but lost 
that build it. 

Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waheth but in vain. 

It is but lost labour that ye haste to rise up early, and so late take rest, and 
eat the bread of carefulness; for so he giveth his beloved sleep. 

Lo, children, and the fruit of the vjomb, are an heritage and gift that cometh of 
the Lord. 

Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children. 
Happy is the man that hath his quiver ftdl of them ; they shall not be ashamed 
v:hen they speak ivith their enemies in the gate. 



708 



HISTORY OF THE CHUECH 



Glory be to the Fatlier. aiv\ to the Son. and lo the Huly GJio-t ; 
As it was ill the be_':rinii:_, is no^v. and ever shall be, wurld without end. 
Amen. 

Psalm cxxviii. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord, and walk in his 
ways. 

For thou shah eat the labour of thine hands: O'lrell is thee, and happy shalt 
thou be '. 

Thv AviiV. -li:''! :i> the fr-iirf';! vine upon tlie v.-alls of thine hou-e. 

rC '^'b" " ' - . ■-->-/:bv;^ rb; r,;6b. 

L'j. b: > ■ b \ ;n:in bt bles-^cd that feareth the Lord. 

Th- ' : Sion shall so bless thee, and thou shalt see Jerusalem in 

P'^OSjj. - .- . - _ b":;:. ^ ■ 

Yea. that tli'ju -liak thy ciuidren - chiL:lren, and peace npou Israel. 
Glory Ije to tlie Fabner. and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost : 
As it was in tlie beadiiuing, is now. and ever shall be. world without end. 
Amen. 

The Rev. Dr. Clerc. Rector of Burlington College, then read 
for the TiK-T Lessox : 

Isaiah t.xi. 4 ^ And they shall build the old waste,-=. they shall raise up 

the bjrmci ^ " ^ us. and they shall repair the vraste cities, the desolations 

of maw - ■ 

" .\ ' _ - biall itand ornd feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien 

.b . , -;i an;l your vinedressers. 

bi .u d- named the Prie-t- of the Loed : men shall call you the 

Alini-^t-r- -yir <to;i : ye -liall ea: the riches of tlie Gentilts, and in their 

7 ^ For y-u: -b::.;nc ; ■ b ' ' " :o double: and y': ■ confusion they shall 
reivioe in their ]' ■•rti- n : liic-rL-rore in their land they shall possess the double : 
evcila-ting ^ y -;::ib b..- mij-i biem. 

^ For 1 tiiC LoRi' love yolgmenr. I hate robbery for burnt offering : and I 
will direct their work in truth, andi I will make an everlasting cc^venant with 
ihem. 

9 Au'l tlieir -eed ^hall be kno-.^ui among the Gentiles, and their oflspring 
amoui;- bie i^t-jple: all that ^ee them shall acknowledge them, that they a/^e 
the seed u'de'- tiie Lord hath Ides^cd. 

Here followed, without announcement, Hymx 281, to the 

tune of St Ann's : . ' 

bwas a joyful sound to hear 
Our tribes dtvoutly say. etc. 

The Rev. Elvin Iv. Smith. Principal of St. Mary's Hall, then 

read for the Secoxd Le>>oy : 

St. LrKE i. 4'3 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord. 
47 And my -piri: liath reic'iced in God my Saviour. 

■4S For lie i".::.bi rcgardLed the low estate of hi- handmaiden: for, behold, 
from henceforth ail gerieraticais shall call me bles-ed. 

49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things ; and holy is liis 
name. 

50 And Ms mercy ?> on them that fear him from generation tu generation. 

51 He hath showed strength with his arm ; he hath scattered the proud in 
the imagination of their hearts. 

52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low 
degree. 

o3 He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath .sent 
empty away. 



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709 



54 He hath, holpen his servant Isi'ael, in remembrance of his mercy ; 

55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. 

Here followed Hymn 180, to the tune of St. George's: 

Behold a humble train 

The courts of God draw near, etc. 

Bishop Scarborough then said : "Let us rehearse the Articles 
of the Christian Faith, as contained in the Apostles' Creed.'' 

The Belief ended, the Bishop, stepping out from the chancel 
into the head of the nave, and turning toward the East, with 
his right hand uplifted, said : 

In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holv Ghost. Amen- 
I Certify you, that in this case all is well done, and according unto due 

order, concerning the purifying and hallowing afresh of this house, where our 

fathers praised God. 

Here Bishop Odeuheimer took up the " Office," saying : 

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers : 
Let him not leave us, nor forsake us. 

Let us pray: 

O Lord, shew Thy mercy upon us : 
And grant us Thy salvation. 
O Lord, save our Eulers : 

And mercifully hear us ichen ice call upon Thee. 
Endue Thy Ministers with righteousness : 
And make Thy chosen people joyful. 
O Lord, save Thy people : 
And bless Thine inheritance. 
Give peace in our time, O Lord : 

Because there is none other that nghteth for us, but only Thou, God. 
O God, make clean our hearts within us : 
And take not thy Holy Spirit from us. 

O most glorious Lord, we acknowledge that we are not worthy to offer unto 
Thee any thing belonging unto us ; yet we beseech Thee, in Thy great goodness, 
graciously to accept the renewed Dedication of this place to Thy service : receive 
the prayers and intercessions of all who shall call upon Thee in this house: 
that coming before Thee with clean thoughts and pure hearts, with bodies 
undefiled, and minds sanctified, they may always perform a service acceptable 
to Thee ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Grant, O Lord, that whosoever shall teach in this place, may be taught of 
Thee, not speaking the words Avhich man's Avisdom teacheth, but which the 
Holy Ghost teacheth, that so they may be to those entrusted to their charge, 
a wholesome example, in word, in conversation, in love, in faith, in patience, 
and in purity: knowing that they that be teachers shall shine as the bright- 
ness of the firmament ; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars 
for ever and ever, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 

O Lord Jesus Christ, who, as a Child, wast found in the temple, sitting in 
the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions ; let 
Thy blessing rest upon all the children who shall be taught in this place ; and 
grant that they may follow Thy example, in honoring their parents, in loving 
their kinsfolk and acquaintance, in heeding the instructions of their spiritual 
pastors and masters, in keeping all Thy commandments and ordinances, and 



710 



HISTORY OF THE CHURCH 



in growing in wisdom, and favonr with God and man. Grant this, O blessed 
Jesiis, our only Mediator and Redeemer, to whom with the Father and the 
Holy Ghost, be all honour and glory, world without end. Amen. 

O God, whose days are without end, and whose mercies cannot be num- 
bered ; Make us, we beseech Thee, deeply sensible of the shortness and uncer- 
tainty of human life; and let Thy Holy Spirit lead us through this vale of 
misery, in holiness and righteousness, all the days of our lives : That, when 
we shall have served Thee in our generation, we may be gathered unto our 
fathers, having the testimony of a good conscience; in the communion of the 
Catholic Church ; in the confidence of a certain faith ; in the comfort of a 
reasonable, religious and holy hope; in favour with Thee our God, and in 
perfect charity with the world. All which we ask through Jesus Christ our 
Lord. Amen. 

The grace of our Lord .Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship 
of the Holy Ghost, be with us all evermore. Amen. 

After this, Hymx 501 was sung to the tune of Burlington. 

Thou art the Way, to Thee alone 
From sin and death we flee, etc. 

Bishop Scarborough theu called upon the Rev. Dr. Hills, the 
Rector of St. Mary's, to give a historical sketch of the parish. 

The Rev. Doctor ascended the dais, erected just where the pul- 
pit stood in the old Church and, without notes, depicted the rise 
and progress of the venerable corporation of " the Church of St. 
Mary in Burlington in the Western division of I^ew Jersey," 
from the beginning of the reign of Queen Anne to the present 
time. 

During his address. Dr. Hills exhibited the old record-books 
and deeds of the parish, a large collection in vellum, and pre- 
sented canes, cut from the live oak king-posts of the ancient 
fabric, to both of the Bishops and to the Rev. Dr. Hoffman, a 
former Rector of the parish. 

He also read letters of congratulation from the Bishop of 
Albany and the Rev. Wm. Allen Johnson, former Rectors of 
the parish, expressing their regrets at necessary absence on the 
joyful occasion, with assurances that they would be present in 
spirit and in prayer. 

Bishop Odenheimer was then conducted to the dais, by the 
Rev. Drs. Hoffman and Hills, and read a written address ; his 
chief references being to the old Church as he first knew it, 
when Rector of St, Peter's, Philadelphia. 

Bishop Scarborough made the concluding address, in which 
he said : The restoration of this ancient building is an endur- 
ing monument to the Rev. Dr. Hills ; and is one of three things 



IN BURLINGTON. 



711 



which will make his rectorship in this parish forever memora- 
ble; the other two being the acquisition of a fine rectory, and 
the valuable and delightful ^ History of the Church in Burling- 
ton/ soon to issue from the press — the fruit of the Doctor's 
research for several years, and one of the most important con- 
tributions to American Ecclesiastical History.'' 

The Rev. Dr. Hoffman, at the request of the Rector, read the 
Offertory from the Prayer Book of the Church of Scotland, which 
differs from that of the English and American Prayer Books. 

The well filled alms-basons — presented on the ancient holy 
table, vested with the cloth given by Mrs. Franklin, wife of the 
last Colonial Governor of the province — showed that the parish- 
ioners of St. Mary's did not appear before the Lord empty." 
After their presentation. Bishop Odenheimer said ; 

Blessed be Tliou, O Lord, God of our fathers, for ever and ever. Thine, O 
Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory: for all that is in the 
lieaven and in the earth is Thine ; Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and Thou art 
exalted as Head above all ; all things come of Thee, and of Thine own have we 
given Thee. For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as were all our 
fathers : our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. O, 
Lord our God, all that we have prepared to build Thee a house for Thine holy 
Name cometh of Thine hand, and is all Thine own. O Lord, God of our 
fathers, keep this for ever in the thoughts of Thy people, and be Thou our God, 
and the God of our children after us, in their generations for ever, through 
Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

Blessed be Thy Name, O Lord God, for that it hath pleased Thee to have 
Thy habitation among the sons of men ; bless, we beseech Thee, the religious 
solemnities of this day, and grant that in this place now devoted anew to Thy 
service, Thy holy Name may be taught in truth and purity through all gener- 
ations, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 

The God of peace, etc. 

Hymn 232, was the Recessional, sung to the tune of Sullivan: 

Onward, Christian soldiers. 
Marching as to war, etc. 

As the congregation, amid mingled smiles and tears, slowly 

left the Church, the chimes of St. Mary's played " Home, sweet 

home ;" " Carol, carol. Christians " Let the merry Church 

bells ring," etc. 



APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX. 



EECTOES OF ST. MARY S CHUECH. 



The Eev. Jolin Talbot, M. A., from March 2.5th, 1703, to March 25th, 1725. 
The Eev. Robert Wevman, from August 1st, 1730, to November 28th, 1737. 
The Eev. Colin Campbell, M. A., from May 10th, 1738, to August 9th, 1766. 
The Eev. Jonathan Odell, M. A., from Julv 25th, 1767, to January 1st, 1777. 
The Eev. Levi Heath, from April 13th, 1789, to April 1st, 1793. 
The Eev. Henry Vandyke, M. A., from July 1st, 1793, to August 10th, 1796. 
The Eev. Charles Henry Wharton, D. D., from September 5th, 1796, to 
July 23d, 1833. 

The Et. Eev. George W. Doane, D. D., LL. D., from October 1st, 1833, to 
April 27th, 1859. 

TheEt. Eev. W. H. Odenheimer, D. D., f from January 16th, 1860, to 
August 20th, 1860. 

The Eev. Wm. Croswell Doane, B. D., from October 18th, 1860, to May 1st, 
1863. 

The Eev. Eugene Augustus Hoffman, M. A., from June 1st, 1863, to April 
1st, 1864. 

The Eev. ^Ym. Allen Johnson, M. A., from November 20th, 1864, to July 
1st, 1870. 

The Eev. George Morgan Hills, D. D., from September 4th, 1870, to 



OFFICIATIXG IX ST. MAEY's CHUECH. 



1704, The Eev. John Sharpe 

1705, The Eev. Thorowgood Moore 

1715, The Eev. Eobert Walker 

1727, The Eev. Nathaniel Hor^yood 

1766, The Eev. Nathaniel Evans 

1785, The Eev. Samuel Eoe 

1786, The Eev. Samuel Spraggs 

1788, The Eev. John Wade 

1834, The Eev. Charles Williams, D. D.,, 



....Assistant. 

Temporary. 



...Assistant. 
Missionary. 
.Occasional. 



...Minister. 

Occasional. 



...Minister. 

, Officiating, 



t Bishop Odenheimer declined an invitation to the rectorship, but accepted 
"charge of the parish." See p. 566. 



716 



APPENDIX. 



1835, The Kev. Hewlett R. Peters, M. A Assistant. 

1836, The Kev. Samuel Starr, M. A Assistant. 

1839, The Rev. Benjamin Davis Winslow, M. A Assistant. 

1842, The Rev. Frederick Ogilby, M. A Assistant. 

1844, The Rev. James Gilborne Lyons, LL. D Assisting. 

1846, The Rev. Benjamin Isaac Haight, M. A Assistant. 

1847, The Rev. John L. VerMehr, Ph. and LL. D Curate. 

1849, The Rev. Adolph Frost, M. A Assisting. 

1853, The Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane, M. A...., Assistant. 

1857, The Rev. Charles Frederick Hoffman, M. A Curate. 

1860, The Rev. Horatio Thomas Wells, M. A Officiating. 

1860, The Rev. Franklin LaFayette Knight, D. D Officiating. 

1861, The Rev. David C. Moore Assistant. 

1862, The Rev. Samuel Seymour Lewis, deacon Assistant. 

1864, The Rev. Ephraim DePuy, M. A Assistant. 

1866, The Rev. Robert Lloyd Goldsborough, M. A Assistant. 

" The Rev. William Sydney Walker, D. D Assisting. 

WARDENS OF ST. MARY's CHURCH. 

1702, Nathaniel Westland, Hugh Huddy, Robert Wheeler. 

1703, Nathaniel Westland, Robert Wheeler. 

1704, Robert Wheeler, Hugh Huddy. 

1706, Thomas Revell, Daniel Leeds. 

1707, Robert Wheeler, Hon. Jeremiah Bass. 

1708, Robert Wheeler, Abraham Hulings. 

1709, Robert Wheeler, George Willis. 

1710, William Budd, Abraham Hillings. 

1711, Robert Wheeler, William Budd. 
1713, 1714, Hon. Jeremiah Bass, Emanuell Smith. 

1716, Abraham Hewlings, Jonathan Lovett. 

1717, Abraham Hewlings, Rowland Ellis. 

1718, John Wheeler, Abraham Hewlings. 

1719, Abraham Hewlings, John Allen. 

1720, 1722, Hon. Jeremiah Bass, George Willis. 
1723, 1724, Joseph White, John Allen. 

1725, Rowland Ellis, Jonathan Lovett. 

1727, John Allen, George Willis. 

1728, 1730, William Cutler, Abraham Hewlings. 

1733, Edward Peirce, Simon Nightingale. 

1734, vSimon Nightingale, Edward Kemball. 

1735, Edward Kemball, Thomas Budd. 

1739, John Allen, — 

1740, Joseph Hewlings, 

1741, Joseph Hewlings, Thomas Budd. 

1742, Joseph Hewlings, 



APPENDIX. 



717 



1743, Joseph Hewlings, William Lyndon. 

1744, Eevel Elton, William Lyndon. 

1745, 1755, William Lyndon, Joseph White, Jr. 
1756, 1770, William Lyndon, Abraham Hewlings. 
1792, 1793, Thomson Neale. 

1794, 1798, Thomson Keale, Joshua M. Wallace. 
1804, Joshua M.. Wallace, John Neale. 

1810, Joshua M, Wallace, 

1815, 1818, Joshua M. Wallace, Jackson B. French. 

1818, 1819, Joshua M. Wallace, Christian Larzelere. 

1819, 1829, Christian Larzelere, John Birkey. 
1829, 1833, Christian Larzelere, 

1834, 1835, Christian Larzelere, William McMurtrie. 

1835, 1838, James Hunter Sterling, John Thomas Newton. 

1838, 1839, John Thomas Newton, Jacob Shedaker. 

1839, 1840, John Thomas Newton, Charles Kinsey. 

1840, 1845, Charles Kinsey, Thomas Milnor. 
1845, 1847, Thomas Milnor, Archibald W. Burns. 
1847, 1849, Thomas Milnor, Charles Ellis, M. D. 

1849, 1850, Thomas Milnor, Richard E. Bull. 

1850, 1856, Thomas Milnor, Eobert B. Aertsen. 
1856, 1860, Thomas Milnor, William A. Eogers. 

1860, 1862, William A. Rogers, Franklin Gauntt, M. D. 
1862, 1865, John W. Odenheimer, Franklin Gauntt, M. D. 

1865, 1866, John W. Odenheimer, Charles Ellis, M. D. 

1866, 1868, Charles Ellis, M. D., Thomas Milnor. 
1868, 1872, Samuel Rogers, J. Howard Pngh, M. D. 
1872, 1876, J. Howard Pugh, M. D., Charles S. Gauntt. 



TEEASURERS OF ST. MARY^S CHURCH. 

T[ The Churchwardens, one or both alternately, were the 
Treasurers until 1761 ; and this arrangement is presumed to 
have been continued until the year which begins this list. 



William Smith — 1794... 1800. 

William Coxe, Jr 1800. ..April 12th, 1819. 

Thomas Aikman April 15th, 1819. ..July 13th, 1819. 

Jackson B. French July 13th, 1819. ..April 19th, 1824. 

William Coxe April 19th, 1824... 1831. 

William S. Coxe, M. D 1831... March 21st, 1833. 

John Larzelere March 21st, 1833... April 27th, 1835. 

Peter Guerard April 27th, 1835. ..August 18th, 1835. 

Edward Rogers September 19th, 1835... 1836. 

Edward G. Prescott August 27th, 1836... 1837. 

James Hunter Sterling September 2d, 1837... September 20th, 1837. 



718 APPENDIX. 

Walter Wilson... December 11th, 1837. ..December 19th, 1839, 

Charles Kinsev December 19th, 1839...September 1st, 1840. 

Archibald W. Burns September 1st, 1840. ..April 20th, 1843. 

John Hulme, Jr May 16th, 1843... April 17th, 1844. 

William A. Eogers April 30th, 1844. ..June 23d, 1849. 

Thomal Milnor June 23d, 1849... November 7th, 1860. 

Ed^rard B. Grubb November 7th, 1860. ..August 27th, 1867. 

E. Burd Grubb..... October 16th, 1867. ..January 13th, 1868. 

Franklin Woolman January 13tli,. 1868 

PAEISH CLERKS OF ST. IEARY's CHUECH. 

Thomas Clark 1704—1707. 

Paul Watkinson 1707—1752. 

Francis Giffing 1752 — 1760. 

Rowland Ellis 1798. 

John Johnson , 1798 . 

AVilliam Lowden -...1799 . 

John Barber 1803. 

Thomas Aikman 1806—1829. 

Adam Price 1829—1833.. 

% The office was abolished in the Parish, in 1833. 

OEGAXISTS OF ST. MARY's CHURCH. 

William Crumpton 1 801—1805. 

Miss Maria Mcllvaine 1830. 

Miss Sarah Kid 1833. 

Mrs. Christiana Lippincott 1836. 

Edward E. Hansen 1838. 

Miss Mellicent Lane 1842. 

George W. Hewitt 1845. 

Alfred Shapter 1854. 

Benjamin F. Leavens 1858. 

George W. Hewitt 1863. 

Francis K. Hewitt... 1875. 



PRIESTS OF ST. BARXABAS' FREE MISSION. 

The Pvev. William Croswell Doane, M. A., from November 30th, 1856, to 
]st, 1863. 

The Bev. Eugene Augustus Hofiman, M. A., from June 1st, 1863, to April 
1st, 1864. 

The Kev. William Allen Johnson, M. A., from November 20th, 1864, to 
April 2d, 1866. 

The Bev. Kobert Lloyd Gold&borough, xM. A., from April 2d, 1866, to 



APPENDIX. 719 

CONVENTIO^sS HELD IX ST. MAEY^S CHUECET. 













H 








PEESIDENT. 


PREACHER. 










i 




Hi 









1705, 
1762, 
1786, 
17&3, 
1800, 
1805, 
1811, 
1817. 
1828, 
1835; 
1837, 
1839, 
1841, 
1843, 
1845, 
1847, 
1849, 
1851, 
1851, 
1852, 
1853, 
1855, 
1857, 
1859, 
1861, 
1863, 
1865, 
1867, 
1869, 
1871, 
1873, 
1874, 
1875, 



yovember 2... John Talbot 

October 1 Eicbard Charlton 

September 27.. Abraham Beach 

June 5 Henry Waddell 

" 4 Menzies Earner 

5 ,....C.H. Wharton, D. D. 

May 1 John C. Eudd 

August 20. Bishop Croes 

May 28 i ' 



Abraham Beach. 
John Croes 



2: .... 
" 31.... 
" 29.... 

26.... 
" 31.... 
" 28.... 

26.... 
" 30.... 
March 17. 
Uaj 28.... 
March 17. 
May 25.... 
"30.... 



G. W. Doane. 



27 ■ " 

25. .James A.AVilliams., 

29 Bishop Odenheimer 

27 1 " 

31 .i " 

29 ! 

25 ! " 

30 

27... i " 



November 12.. Eev. Jos. F. Garrison, 
May 25 -Bishop Scarborough... 



Jasper Davis Jones 

Simon Wilmer 

James Chapman 

John M. Ward 

Harry Finch 

G. Y. Morehouse 

Bishop's Charge 

M. H. Henderson 

.John D. Ogilby. 

Bishop's 5th Charge 

The Bishop 

.John S. Kidney, 

The Bishop 

Bishop's 7th Charge 

The Bishop 

David Brown 

W. H. K Stewart 

Bishop's 9th Charge, 

John Kelly 

Jos. F. Garrison, M. D.. 

James S. Bush 

Bishop's 2d Charge 

F. C. Putnam 

E. M. Abercrombie, D.D. 

Bishop's 4th Charge 

J. IST. Stansbury 

Alfred Stubbs, D.D 

Stevens Parker 



15 
6 

4 
4 
4 
5 
7 
10 
11 
22 
28 
18 
31 
31 
33 
32 
34 
25 
39 
40 
30 
39 
47 
61 
70 
74 
66 
73 
78 
83 
99 
65 
60 



12 
10 

5. 

6 
13 
11 
15 
18 
20 
25 
24 
25 
31 
-27 
33 
31 
33 
37 
42 
37 
49 
67 
60 
67- 
81 
69- 
65 
63 
79 
51 
51 



OEDIXATIOXS HELD IN ST. iMAEY^S CHUECH, BY THE ET. EEV. 

GEOEGE DOANE, D. D., BISHOP OF NEW JEESEY. 

*[ Xo ordinations are recorded as held in Burlington, before the first on 
this list. 

1832, December 12, Peter Lott Jaques Diaconate. 

1834, " 24, Eev. Samuel Starr, M. A Priesthood. 

1836, July 8, Francis Praileux Lee Diaconate. 

1837, May 25, Edward Goldsborougli Prescott " 

" June 1, Eev. Thomas Tanser Priesthood.. 

1, Eev . James Alfred Williams 

" " 1, Eev. E^euben Isaac Germain " 

August 20, Eev. Edward Goldsborough Prescott " 



720 



APPENDIX. 



1838, June 3, Benjamin Davis Winslow, B. A Diaconate. 

1839, March 15, Rev. John Peirce Lathrop, M. A Priesthood. 

" " 15, Rev. Benjamin Davis Winslow, M. A " 

" November 3, John Purdue, M. D Diaconate. 

1840, May 3, Pliilip Edward Milledoler, M. D " 

" " 24, Rev. Henry Major Priesthood. 

" August 2, George Fitzhugh Worthington, M. A Diaconate. 

1841, April 8, John H, Hanson " 

1842, July 3, John Elliot Thompson, M. A.... " 

December 21, Rev. Alfred Mersan Loutrel, B. A Priesthood. 

" 21, Rev. John Elliot Thompson, M. A 

1843, March 26, James Gilborne Lyons, LL. D..., , Diaconate. 

" June 11, David Clarkson 

" October 15, Cyrus Munson, M. A " 

1845, July 7, Rev. James Gilborne Lyons, LL. D Priesthood. 

1846, June 7, John L. VerMehr, Ph. and LL. D .....Diaconate. 

" " 7, Rev. Jacob DeLaMontaigne Moore, M. A..Priesthood. 

1847, February 28, Charles Woodruff Rankin Diaconate. 

" 28, Rev. George Whitefield Timlow... Priesthood. 

" September 19, Rev. John L. VerMehr, Ph. and LL. D.... 

1848, March 19, Rev. Charles Woodruff Rankin 

" July 2, Andrew Mackie, B. A Diaconate. 

" September 24, William Wilberforce Lord, M. A 

" December 27, Julius David Rose " f 

1849, June 3, Rev. Andrew Mackie, B. A Priesthood. 

August 26, Nathaniel Pettit Diaconate. 

" September 23, DeWitt Clinton Byllesby " 

" December 23, Marcus Ferris Hyde, M. A " 

1850, June 2, Rev. John Anderson Parsons Priesthood. 

2, Rev. Nathaniel Pettit 

" " 30, John Rowland Diaconate. 

" September 1, Stephen Chipman Thrall " 

1851, May 29, Rev. John Rowland Priesthood. 

1852, June 6, Edward Purdon Wright, M. A.. Diaconate. 

1853, March 6, Wm. Croswell Doane, M. A..... 

" December 18, Wm. Tilghman Johnston, B. A " 

18, Joseph Shepherd Mayers, B. A 

1854, November 26, Rev. Wm. Tilghman Johnston, M. A Priesthood. 

1855, January 14, Rev. Edward Hammond Massey Baker " 

" March 4, Robert Farnum Chase Diaconate. 

" " 4, George Hobart Doane, M. A., M. D 

" " 4, Rev. Franklin Babbitt Priesthood. 

1856, " 16, Rev. Wm. Croswell Doane. M. A 

" " 16, Rev. Joseph Shepherd Mayers, M. A " 



f In the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, St. Mary's Hall. 



APPENDIX. 



721 



1856, March 16, 

16, 

" June 29, 
" December 21, 
21, 
21, 

1857, September 27, 
" December 20, 

1858, February 28, 

" ' 28, 
June 6, 
" " 6, 
" September 19, 
" December 17, 



Eev. Hobart Clieivrood, M. A Priesthood. 

"Waher Alexander Mitchell, M. A Diaconate. 

Francis Davton Canfield, M. A " 

Wellington Fergus, M. D " 

Edwin Bailey Chase, B. A " 

Eobert Green Chase, B. A " 

Key. Walter Alexander Mitchell, M. A Priesthood. 

Rev. EdAvin Bailey Chase, M. A 

John Nicholas Stansbury Diaconate. 

John Martin Henderson, M. A " 

Horatio Thomas Wells, M. A " 

Rex. Wellington Forgus, M. D Priesthood. 

Joseph S. Saunders Diaconate. 

Hey. .James Thomson Priesthood. 



ORDINATIOXS HELD IX ST. BARXABAS' CHAPEL, BUELIXGTOX, 
BY THE ET. REV. WM. R. WHITTIXGHAM, D. D., BISHOP OF 
MARYLAND. 

1859, July 20, Ed\yard Shippen Watson, M. A Diaconate. 

" " 20, Hugh Lorrington Morison Clarke, M. A " 

" 20, George Seymour Lewis, M. A " 

20, James Chrystal 

ORDIXATIONS HELD IX ST. MARY's CHURCH, BY THE RT. REV. 
WM. H. ODEXHEIMER, D. D., BISHOP OF NEW JERSEY. 



1860, March 4, H. C. Fay re Costell Diaconate. 

" " 4, Eey. Horatio Thomas Wells, M. A Priesthood. 

June 3, Eev. William Armstrong Dod, D. D " ^ 

3, Eev. Edward Shippen Watson 

" December 2, Eev. Thomas Jefferson Taylor " f 

1861, March 10, Charles Douglas Diaconate. 

" " 10, Eobert Anclrewes Poole 

" " 10, Eev. John Martin Henderson, M. A Priesthood. 

" May 27, Samuel Seymour Lewis Diaconate. 

" " 27, Horace Smith Bishop " 

" 27, Eev. Hugh Lorrington Morison Clarke Priesthood. 

1862, September 21, Levi Johnston , Diaconate. 

1863, February 27, Eev. Horace Smith Bishop Priesthood. 

" September 20, Charles Theodore Seibt Diaconate. 

" " 20, Eev. Charles Eitter Priesthood. 

" December 20, Eev. William Henry Badger " 

" " 20, Eev. Samuel Seymour Lewis " 



t By the Et. Eev. John AVilliams, D. D., Assistant Bishop of Connecticut, 
acting for the Bishop of New Jersey. 

^ 2z 



722 



APPEXDIX. 



1S63, 


December 


20. 






1S64, 


February 


21, 


Eev. James Atcbinson Upjohn 









21, 







1865, June 








1866, 


April 


3, 









June 




Wliittingham Doane Mitchell 




a 


September 26, 


Kev. Thomas Logan Murphv 




1868, 


June 


1, 






1869, December 19, 






1870, 


July 


28, 


John Alexander Goodfellow 




1871, 


Jauuarv 


1^, 


Her. Arthur Eutherfurd Morris 




1872, 


June 


21, 






1873, 


December 


19, 




a 






19, 






1874. 


May 


— ' } 


George M^Clellan Fist, M. A 


Diaconate. 






27 








September 


29, 


Edward Maxwell Eeillv. B. A 





OEDIXATIOX HELD IX ST. ^IAEY's CHUECH BY THE ET. EEV. 

JOHX SCAEBOEOrCxH, D. J)., BISHOP OF XE^V .JEESEY. 
187-5. May 23, Eev. George McCiellan Fisk, M. A Priesthood. 



PEIXCIPALS OF ST. MAEY'S HALL. 

Eev. Asa Eaton, D. D May 1, lS37..0c:, 1. 1S39. 

" Eeuben Isaac Germain, M. A Oct. 1, 1839..Marc.i -~ . 1S55. 

Daniel Caldwell Millett, M. A April 18, lS55..April 12, 1857. 

Elvin Keyser Smith, M. A Xov. 1,1858 

EECTOES OF BUELIXGTOX COLLEGE. 

The Eev. Benjamin Isaac Haight, M. A Mar. 16, lS46..Sept. 28, 1816. 

" James Watson Bradin, M. A Sept. 28, lS49..April 21,1851. 

" " Marcus Ferris Hyde, M. A. i April 24, 1851..Sept. 27. 1^51. 

" " Moses Parsons Stickuey, M. A Sept. 28,1851.. " iv, l-''2. 

" " Edward Purdon Wright. B.A.J ...Xov. 1, 1852..0cr. 31,1^53. 

" -John Lee Watson, D. D Oct. 31, 1853..Sept. 28,1854. 

" Hobart Chetwood, B. D Sept. 27, 1856.. " 29, 1858. 

" Edward Mills Pecke, M. A. % Dec. 4, 1858.. " 24, 1859. 

Horatio Thomas Wells, M. A. i.... Sept. 24, 1859.. 26,1860. 

" .John Breckenridge Gibson, M. A.. " 26, 1860..July 18, 1866. 

" " Anthony Ten Broeck, D. D July IS, 1866.. 20, 1870. 

" Charles Thompson Kellogg, M. A..Oct. 15, I870..April 4, 1S72. 

" Francis Joseph Clerc, D. D May 22,1872 



f In the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, St. Mary's Hall, 
i Acting temporarily. 



APPENDIX. 



723 



ABSTEACT OF THE ANisUAL PAEOCHIAL EEPOETS OF BUE- 

LIXGTON. 



A. D. 



1805. 
1806. 
1807., 
1808. 
1809., 
1810. 
1811. 
1812. 
1813. 
1814., 
1815. 
1816., 
1817. 
1818., 
1819., 
1820., 
1821., 
1822.. 
1823. 
1824.. 
1825.. 
1826., 
1827., 
1828., 
1829., 
1830., 
1831., 
1832., 
1833., 



22 
9 



25 
26 



18 
6 
10 
10 
18 
15 
17 
12 
9 
18 
10 
9 
5 
6 
7 

14 
11 
23 
11 
10 
8 
9 
9 
2 
26 
21 



36 



14 



11 



12 



50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
35 



30 




37 




35 


3 


35 


4 


36 


3 


38 


3 


38 


3 


40 




36 




35 


2 


38 


1 


46 


2 


50 


2 


50 


7 



§36 00 

25 00 

26 OS 
26 11 
15 80 
30 00 



2 
2 

i 

4 j 

'l i 

1 I 
4 ! 



6 
6 
5 
5 

o 
O 

4 
8 

10 
1 
7 
4 
6 
7 
9 

15 
2 
9 
6 
5 



.! 17 11 
.| 20 00 
,1 27 25 



150 


41 44 




282 23 




30 00 




85 00 




45 00 




10 00 




25 00 




75 00 




87 20 




120 00 




151 70 





144 28 


50 


102 50 


90 


100 00 


100 




100 


16 65 


90 


44 CO 



724 



APPENDIX. 



ABSTRACT OF THE ANNUAL PAROCHIAL REPORTS OF BUR- 
LINGTON — CONTINUED . 



Baptisms. 



8 
10 
6 
7 
7 
8 
8 
5 
7 

12 
12 
15 
17 
33 
43 
25 

4 
14 
10 

9 



15 
13 
9 

10 
12 
19 
15 
12 
14 
15 
13 
12 
9 
46 
37 
13 
12 
21 
12 
15 



23 
23 
15 
17 
19 
27 
23 
17 
21 
27 
25 
27 
26 
79 
80 
38 
16 
35 
22 
24 



17 
26 
8 
12 
16 
44 
26 
18 
29 
36 
29- 
27 
31 
63 
85 
13 



Commun'ts 



17 
18 
31 
32 
18 
49 
38 
28 
30 
28 
30 
34 
43 
39 



32 



34 I 52 
37 ! 60 
34 34 
54 



50 
58 
86 
98 
102 
144 
150 
153 
179 
195 
215 
230 
246 
250 
250 
250 
262 
266 
270 
290 



14 
10 
18 
8 
16 
12 
10 
18 
15 
10 
8 
7 
9 
32 
19 
15 
12 
7 

13 



115 
115 
110 
131 
125 
90 



90 
115 
157 
150 
103 
127 



APPENDIX. 

ABSTEACT OF THE ANNUAL PAROCHIAL 
LINGTOX — CONTINUED. 



725 

REPORTS OF BUR- 



A. D. 



1854. 

1855 

1856 

1857 

1858.;.... 

1859 

1860. 

1861 

1862 

1863 

1864 

1865 

1866 

1867 

1868 

1869...... 

1870 

1871 

1872 

1873 ..... 

1874 

1875 



Baptisms. 



19 
32 
40 
.25 
57 
38 
-27 



39 
22 
17 
14 



73 
95 
71 
71 
118 
62 
70 



92 
127 
111 
96 
175 
100 
97 
83 

55 I 94 

I 

39 ! 61 



Communicants. 



71 
101 



&3 51 
130 108 

84 L..., 

i 

88 ■ 46 

71 

69 

69 ^ 



47 
28 



28 





36 


60 


26 


18 


30 


52 


50 






99 


137 


109. 






62 


84 


64 


43 


26 


60 


.79 


54 


24 


15 


60 


84 


49 


39 


13 


66 


94 


74 


49 


38 


59 


85 


55 


40 


23 


72 


98 


44 


27 


13 


81 


119 


71 






55 


75 


28 


21 


17 



280 
374 
352 
319 
441 
422 
227 
301 
310 
198 
438 
456 
327 
294 
289 
300 
282 
443 
430 
454 
471 
413 



23 194 



31 
21 
12 
17 
27 
30 



218 
210 
210 
187 
150 
220 



2 


34 


245 


3 


60 


170 


4 


52 


195 


5 


31 


205 


5 


43 


160 


9 


44 


140 


3 


52 


208 


1 


38 


228 


8 


34 


225 


8 


48 


267 


9 


45 


232 


22 


36 


354 


9 


42 


365 


14 


33 


269 



^2,775 04 
2,658 56 
],268 40 
866 44 
2,758 65 
4,587 30 
1,326 02 
1,762 53 
1,968 22 
1,346 82 
19,926 72 
1,767 76 
17,446 00 
3,432 70 
3,015 76 
6,325 95 
5,267 48 
7,215 13 
8,718 79 
10,003 40 
10,568 49 
11,657 77 



726 



APPEXDIX. 



THE FIRST SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS HISTORY. 

The Kt. Rev. "William E. mittingliam, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Mary- 
land. 

The Et. Eev. John AVilliams, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Connecticut. 
The Et. Eev. Horatio Potter, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L., Bishop of New York. 
The Et. Eev. William H. Odenlieimer, D. J)., Bishop of Northern New 
Jersev. 

TheEt. Eev. Henrv B. Whipple, D. D., Bishop of Minnesota. 
The Et. Eev. William Bacon Stevens, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

The Et. Eev. Thomas H. Vail, D. J)., Bishop of Kansas. 
The Et. Eev. A. Cleveland Coxe, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Western Xew 
York. 

The Et. Eev. Eobert H. Clarkson, D. D., LL. ~D., Bishop of Nebraska. 
The Et. Eev. Charles F. Eobertson, D. J)., Bishop of Missouri. 
The Et. Eev. William Croswell Doane, D. D., Bishop of Albany. 
The Et. Eev. Theodore B. Lyman, D. D., Assistant Bishop of North Caro- 
lina. 

The Et. Eev. Alexander C. Garrett, D. 1)., Missionarv Bishop of Northern- 
Texas. 

The Et. Eev. John Scarborough, D. D., Bishop of New Jersey. 

The Eev. George F. Seymour, D. D., Dean of the General Theological 
Seminarv, New York. 

The Eev. F. A. P. Barnard, D. D., LL. D., L. H. L., President of Colum- 
bia College, New York. 

The Eev. Thomas E. Pynchon, L. D., President of Trinity College, Hart- 
ford, Connecticut. 

The Eev. M. Van Eensselaer, D. D., LL. D,, President of Hobart College,. 
Geneva, New York. 

The Eev. Eobert B. Fairbairn, D. D., Warden of St. Stephen's College,. 
Ann and ale. New Y^ork. 

The Hon. Andrew D. White, LL. D., President of Cornell L^niversity, 
Ithaca, New York. 

The Eev. William Stevens Perry, D. D , Historiographer of the Church, 
Geneva, New York. 

John William Wallace, Esq., President of the Historical Society of Penn- 
sylvania. 

W. A. Whitehead, Esq., Secretary of the Historical Society of New Jersey,. 
Newark, N. J. 

The Eev. E. Edwards Beardsley, D. D., Author of the History of the Epis- 
copal Church in Connecticut, New Haven, Ct. 

The Eev. J. Lloyd Breck, H, D., Principal of St. Mary's-of-the-Pacific,, 
Benicia, California. 

The Eev. John Vaughan Lewis, D. D., Eector of St. John's Church, Wash- 
ington, D. C. 

The Eev. William A. Matson, D. D., Editor of the Church Journal, New 
York. 

The Eev. Frederick Ogilby, D. D., an Assistant Minister of Trinity Church, 
New York. 

The Eev. Eugene A. Hoffman, D. D., Eector of St. Mark's Church, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

The Eev. Thomas F. Davies, D. D., Eector of St. Peter's Church, Philadel- 
phia. 

The Hon. H. P. Baldwin, Detroit, Michigan. 
The Flon. Tazewell Taylor, Norfolk, Alrginia. 
The Hon. James C. Smith, Canandaigua, New Y'ork. 
The Hon. Charles Andrews, Svracuse, New York. 
The Hon. Philo White, Whitestown, N. Y. 
Ctcu. W. W. H. Davis, Doylestown, Pa. 



I ]sr D E X . 



A 

A Bishop in Burlington, ■ 188. 

Abstract of reports, 723. 

Academy, at Philadelphia, 271, 360. 

Academy, Burlington, arrangements, 
328 ; subscriptions, 328, 331 ; lease, 
332, 507; name, 335; gifts, 343; 
more ground, 344 ; principal buried, 
373 ; worship in, 373 ; vS. S. organi- 
zed in, 383; alluded to, 404, 406; 
principals, building, sold, 507 ; 
alluded to, 539. 

Accident, 665. 

Accounts of Churchwardens, 268, 269. 
A cloud of melancholy thoughts, 93. 
Act, against negroes, also unlicensed 

liquor dealers, 16; in reign of 

George III, 285 ; new stamp, 287. 
Action of Vestry, unusually important, 

261 ; extraordinary, 477. 
Acts of jurisdiction denied, 192. 
Address to Archbishops and Bishops, 

160. 

Address of Clergy, 108, 274, 281. 

Address, Episcopal, Bishop Oden- 
heimer,561, 563, 568 ; Bishop Scar- 
borough, 695. 

A door open to the Gospel, 53. 

Affecting records, 344. 

Agitation in the colony, 11. 

A great weight removed, 612. 

Agreement between rector and vestry, 
329. 

Albanv, 64, 78, 88, 166, 644, 651, 662, 
663,^688, 689, 690, 691, 693, 710. 

Alms bason, 261, 384, 465, 466, 694 

Alms chest, 657. 

Alms, presentation of, 671. 

Altar, 245, 508, 536, 563, 566, 657, 661, 
663, 671, (see Holv Table.) 

Altar cloth, 132, 133, 711 : cross, 657 ; 
linen, 668; vessels, 133, 134, 261, 
384, 465, 466, 496, 497, 502, 563, 694. 

Alterations in the church buildins:, 
297, 369, 370, 372, 373, 380, 387, 394, 
399, 400, 424, 435, 436, 444, 465, 466, 



484, 489, 503, 505, 508, 578, 585, 668, 
703. 

Alterations in organ, (see Organ.) 
Alumnae of St. Mary's Hall re-union, 

698. _ 

Alumni of Burlington College, 575. 

Amboy, 30, 36, 40, 43, 48. 

America, best house in, 90. 

America, "the Bishop of," 60, 211, 704. 

American Independence, 319. 

American Philosophical Society, 347. 

American Kevolution, 307. 

American Statesman, 164, 704. 

American Union, plan of, 164. 

Amusements for May-dav, 442. 

Anabaptists, 41, 42, 49, 51", 78, 468, 469. 

Anecdote of Dr. Wharton, 408. 

Anecdotes of Bishop Doane, 445, 666 

Angel, sign of the, 262. 

Anna Regina, 19. 

Anna? Begin fe, 133. 

Anne, Queen, accession of, 19; sur- 
render of government to, 20 ; in- 
structions of, 23 ; a squaw sachem, 
27 ; God bless her, 33 ; divests Corn- 
bury, 82 ; her reign praised, 86 ; not 
her fault, 89 ; in Privy Council, re- 
peals form of protestation, 102 ; let- 
ter to, 116 ; death, character of, 123; 
gives holv vessels, 132: alluded to, 
432, 495, 710. 

Another account of the trouble, 78. 

Ante communion, omitted, 405. 

"Apostolum vehis," 546. 

Appeal to parents, 446. 

Appendix, 715-726. 

"Apud Americanos," 36, 37, 43, 54, 
146, 189, 193. 

Archdeacon of Spanish Town, 496. 

Architect, 369, 370, 424, 489, 491, 703. 

Architectural description 424. 

" Ark of God among Philistines," 116 

Articles, (see Thirty-Nine.) 

Atheism, bill against, 163. 

Attestation signatures, 299. 

"Aulffi. Sanctje. Marine. Fundatoris." 

699. ^ 

Aversion to independency, 316. 



728 



INDEX. 



- B 

"Backwardness towards baptism," 387 

Balance of debt paid, 617. 

Ballots for Bishops, 348, 382, 401, 557, 
682. 

Bands, 289. 

Banns published, 301. 

Baptismal bowl, 384, 466. (See Font.) 

Baptized, large number, 272. 

Bard, Mary M., 257 ; Peter, 163, 257. 

Baron Steuben, 319. 

Baronet, married, 273 

Bass, Hon. Jeremiah, Governor of 
East New Jersey, 194; Attorney- 
General, 194; commends Talbot, 92 ; 
admits will of Moore and Brooke, 
95 ; ditto Leciter, 97 ; corporator, 
97-100; letters to Secretary, 101, 
110, 140, 143, 169 ; signs ditto to the 
Queen, 116; ditto to Gov. Nichol- 
son, 119; petition to the Archbish- 
ops and Bishops, 154; writes ''His- 
tory," 127-139 ; his offices, 133, 145, 
148, 194, 226, 227, 233; tried and 
acquitted, 145 ; representative, 148 ; 
speech, 149 ; appointed lay-reader, 
233; will, 194; effects, 199; allu- 
ded to, 214, 215, 224, 229, 230, 231, 
694. 

Baynton, Peter, 259. 
Beaker, 134. 

Bell, or bells, 44, 190, 221, 222, 223, 
224, 232, 234, 264, 291, 297, 351, 
404,405, 406, 478, 550 ; for St. Bar- 
nabas, 596 ; a chime offered, 615 ; 
the tower designed for chime, 618 ; 
English and American, 618 ; Eng- 
lish decided upon, 620 ; order given, 
622, 637 ; the same acknowledged, 
" Doncaster pattern," 625 ; peal 
guaranteed, 626 ; a finer never made, 
arrival of, 629 ; brought to Burling- 
ton, 630 ; inscriptions on, 630 ; finest 
peal in America, placed in custody 
of St. Mary's, 632; reception of, 634 ; 
thanks for, 635 ; master of chimes, 
639 ; first pealing, 640 ; rules con- 
cerning, 651 ; muffled, 406, 652 ; al- 
luded to, 655, 662, 665, 666, 669, 
671, 674, 688, 689, 700, 701, 706, 
711. 

Benediction of old St. Mary's, 706. 

Benefactors, 214, 215, 216. 

Bequests, Thos. Leciter, 96, 134; Bp. 
Frampton, 136 ; Archbjj. Tenison, 
161; Wm. Budd, 166; Gov. Bass, 
195; Mrs. Talbot, 246 ; Daniel Coxe, 



255 ; lost, 257 ; Peter Baynton, 259 ; 
Thos, Leeds, 261 ; Paul Watkinson, 
267, 507; Miss Kiche, 384; Dr. 
Wharton, 413, 464; Miss Wallace, 
494: Mrs. Wallace, 496; Mrs. Eo- 
bardet, 645, 667 ; Miss Swann, 686. 
Best house in America for a Bishop, 
90. 

Beverley, New, 9. 

Bible class room, 705, 707. 

Bidding Prayer, 488. 

" Birdlington," 102. 

Birth-day ode, 311. 

Bishop, great need of, 26, 28 ; only 

remedy, 121 ; support of, 384 ; {see 

"Ballots for.") 
Bishop's chair, 435, 466, 508. 
Bishop's throne, 508, 663, 675, 693. 
Black, Church in, 351, 406, 443. 
Bloomfield, Gen., 343, 351, 359, 395. 
" Blue Anchor," 267. 
" Boldly condemning vice," 87. 
"Booke, Burlington Church," 214. 
Boudinot, Elias, 337, 378, 384, 387, 

388, 395, 465, 466, 511. 
Bovey's, Mrs. gifts, 133, 136, 181, 182, 

186, 432. 

Bradford, Mrs. S. V., 337, 465, 466, 
511, 512. 

Bradford, Wm., Attorney- General, 336, 
388. 

Bradford, Wm., printer, 58, 337. 

Bridlington, 9, 675. 

Bristol, or New Bristol, 26, 125, 126, 

131, 139, 171, 210, 248, 250, 251, 

253, 266, 267, 269, 272, 335, 340, 

390, 392, 430, 432. 
Britannia's happy land, 311. 
Brooke, Rev. John, 62, 63, 71, 72, 75, 

76, 78, 83, 84, 85, 87, 88, 90, 93, 95, 

132. 

Brotherly love in New Jersey, 374. 

Brunswick, or New Brunswick, 294, 
295, 306, 321, 325, 331, 348, 349, 
367, 384, 401, 531, 693. 

Budd, Williani, subscription for meet- 
ing-house, 10 ; witness to marriage, 
13 ; conversion to church, baptism 
of family, 60; will, bequests, 166; 
death, headstone, 167. 

Bull, Eichard E., land from, 641 ; let- 
ter from, 643. 

Burial fees, 357. 

Burial, first in Friends' ground, 9. 
Burlington House, (see See-House.) 
" Burlington, in the centre," 188, 239. 
Burlington, settlement, 7 ; first name, 
9 ; description, 17, 668 ; first church- 



INDEX. 



729 



wardens, 44, 214 ; " letters pattent," 
97 ; first see, 100 ; more pleasant 
than Salisbury, 176 ; site for college, 
238 ; healthy, 242 ; country people, 
250 ; post offices, 250 ; travel, 267 ; 
fairs, 17, 252 ; advantages, 253 ; 
whipping-post, 253 ; profanity pun- 
ished, 255 ; stealing punished, 256 ; 
storm, 268 ; removals, 275 , Sunday, 
668. 

Burnet, Bp., quoted, 14. 
Burnet, Gov., 163, 178, 194. 
Burving-place for Christians, 15, 21, 
298 ; ditto Friends, 10. 



C 

Cabinet-organ, 668. 
Calumny, 143. 

Campbell, Eev. Colin, sketch, appointed 
to Burlington, 254; letters, 256, 257, 
258, 265, 267, 271, 272, 275, 276,277, 
280, 287 ; marriage, 257 ; founds 
Church at Mt. Holly, 259; first 
child, 260 ; important vestry-meet- 
ing, 261 ; preaches to a centennarian, 
264 ; parsonage, 264 ; Society's 
house burnt, 265 ; death of clerk, 
267 ; rides in storm, 268 ; labours 
not in vain, 269 ; convention at 
Philadelphia, 270; ^ Philadelphia 
Academy, 271 ; baptizes large num- 
ber, 272, 277; troubled by McClen- 
achan, 272 ; marries Baronet, sheep 
returning, 273; convention at Bur- 
lington, 274 ; signs addresses, 274, 
281 ; removals, 275 ; surplice, 276 ; 
verge of sixty, asks for itinerant, 
gain at Mt. Holly, 277 ; only dis- 
pute, 280 ; act passed, 285 ; mar- 
riage certificate, 288 ; death and 
burial, funeral-sermon, portrait, 
children, 289 ; lines on, 290 ; al- 
luded to, 303, 341, 430. 

Campbell, Mrs. Marv, 257, 268, 289, 
297, 340, 341. 

" Candels to preach by," 234, 236, 405. 

Candidates for the Episcopate, 60, 348, 

Candlesticks, 405. 

"Carol, carol, Christians," 711. 

Carr, John H., 397, 704. 

" Carried on," 83. 

Cartaret, Gov., 8. 

Cassock, 289. 

Catalogue of Burlington Library, 157 ; 



Mr. Talbot's books, 159; Quaker's 

books, 1 60. 
Catechising, 91, 125, 169, 170, 189, 437 

517, 518, 520, 551. 
Catechist, 125, 154, (see Catechising.) 

382, 401, 557, 682. 
Cathedral, 587, 589, 603, 607, 676, 688. 

Cella," steamship, 629. 
Centennarian, 264. 
Certificate of Kowland Ellis, 169. 
Certificates of marriage, 12, 288, 496. 
Cessation of public worship, 203, 318. 
Chaplains Examining, 654. 
Chappel, Queen's, in Boston, 21. 
Chandeliers, 384. 
Charitable uses, 31, 706. 
Charles Second, 7. 
Charter, (see Letters Pattent). 
Chimer, 636, 639, 652, 653. 
Chimes, (see bells). 
Christ Church, Phila., supplied, 153, 

156, 175, 192. 
Christian Quakers, 14, (see Keithians.) 
Christmas, pastoral, 470; "waits" 501 
Church, The, 458. 

Church and school, bequest for, 166. 
Church building, described, 212. 
Church closed, 203, 318, 323. 
Churchmen, 51. 
Church stock, 227-237. 
"Church undermined," 119. 
Chygoe's Island, 8. 

Clergy, meeting of, 22, 61, (see Con- 
ventions). 
Clergy of the Church of Sweden, 63. 
Clerks of parish, 718. 
Cleveland, Mrs. 493, 615, 616, 704. 
Cloud of melancholy thoughts, 93. 
Coaquanock, 10. 

College, must be had, 171 ; Burling- 
ton unrivalled for, 238; incorpora- 
ted, 485 ; trustees, 485, 529 ; com- 
mended; 597, 638, 650 ; commence- 
ments, 572 ; alumni, 533, 575 ; di- 
vinity department, 494, 655; twenty- 
fifth year, 658 ; rectors of, 722 ; 
portrait in, 659 ; scholarships in, 
645 ; alluded to, 488, 494, 497, 543, 
569, 587, 597, 655, 657, 658, 662, 
663, 664, 668, 669, 670, 671, 706, 708. 

Collegians planting trees, 497. 

CoUings, Francis, 10. 

Colton, Eev. Chauncey, 402, 453. 

Columbia College, 331, 359, 622. 

Commencements, 271, 572, 658, 659. 

Compton, Bishop, 432. 

Communion table, (see Holy Table). 



730 



I X D E X . 



Consecration, old church, 425; Hall 
Chapel, 490; bishops, 168, 3S3, 402, 

560, 6S8, ; new church, 505; St. Bar- 
nabas, 041, (see Benediction). 

Conventions, 61, 63, 108, 176, 274, 281, 
295, 296, 325, 348, 367, 380, 382, 
384, 387, 397, 401, 416, 436, 439, 
443. 453, 467, 473, 475, 498, 552, 

561, 597, 677, 679, 719. 

Conversions to church, 60. 

Convocation, 28 ; organized, 649 ; al- 
luded to, 673, 674, 677. 

Cooper, J. Fenimore, 327, 328. 
Cornburv, Lord, 23, 39, 40, 45, 71, 75, 

82, 86; 87, 89, 103, 130, 131. 
Corner stone of church, 32, 33, 36 ; of 

chapel, 483 : of new church, 489. 
* Coxe, Daniel, 'M. D., 11, 164. 
Coxe, Daniel, Hon. Col, 87, 97, 98, 99, 

121, 133, 135, 146. 147, 164, 172, 175, 

177, 238, 255. 
Coxe, William, 335. 
Croes, Rev. Dr. John ; 348, letters to, 

374, 376 ; elected bishop, 382 ; con- 
secrated, 383 ; death, 401. 
Croes, Eev. Dr. Eobert B., 374, 560. 
Cross on Eiverside, 566, (see Altar 

Cross). 
Cross, The, 457, 

Croswell, Eev. William, 453, 513. 
D 

Dailv Pravers, 189, 476, 517, 566, 589, 
601, 676. 

Dancing in the Academy, 441, 442. 
Debt removed, 617. 
De Camp, Admiral, 702. 
Declaration of Independence, 312, 316, 
317. 

DeLancev, Bishop, 467, 622, 654, 656, 
672. 

Diagram of church, 372, 400, 435, 508, 
705. 

Diocesan, retrospection, 439 : school, 

443; institutions, 597. 
Disaffection to the government, 152. 
Dispute, the only, 280. 
Doane, George Hobart, 512-517, 529, 

573, 575, 

Doane, Et. Eev. G-. W., sketch, elected 
Bishop, 401 : consecrated, first or- 
dination, residence, 402; executor, 
414; inscription, 416; rector, rea- 
sons, 416 : travels as freight, 445 ; 
founds hall, 446, 452, 453; gives 
font 465 , preaches at Auburn, wel- 
comes Bishop De Lancey, 467 ; in- 



tends for England, 472 : action of 
convention, 473 ; welcome in Eng- 
land, 474 ; daily service, 476 ; oppo- 
sition, 477 ; proposed resignation, 
478 ; corner stone of Ploly Innocents, 
483 : projects new church, 484 : 
founds College, 685 ; corner stone of 
new church, 489 ; consecrates chapel, 
490 ; subscribes, 493 ; entertains 
Eev. E. Hawkins, 495 ; marriage 
certificate, 496 : entertains Arch- 
deacon, 496; special convention, 
498 ; commends " The Missionary," 
499 ; prayer, 500 ; presentment d'is- 
missed, 501 ; applies to Trinity, X. 
Y., 504; consecrates new church, 
505 ; Mrs. Bradford, 511 ; deposes 
George, 512 ; opens St. Barnabas', 

519 ; dedicates ditto, 520 ; last days, 

520 ; funeral, 527 ; clergy meet, 531 : 
resolutions, 532 ; ditto of alumni, 
533; day after burial, 534, 540; 
sermon of Dr. Ogilby, 535 ; ditto of 
Dr. Yan Eensselaer, 541 ; memorial 
service, 553; resolutions of conven- 
tion, 554 ; grave, and window, 585 : 
alluded to, 6, 561, 563, 565, 569, 
570, 574, 605, 631, 638, 650, 652, 
662, 663, 665, 667, 675, 688, 689, 
699, 701. 

Doane, Eev. ^Vm. Croswell, sketch, 
569 ; graduates, 569, 573 ; " The 
Missionary," 498; assistant, 499; 
founds St. Barnabas', 519 ; rector of 
St. Mary's, 569, 570; cathedral, 5S9 : 
communication from, 591 ; report on 
Institutions, 597 ; salarv increased, 
598 ; resigns, 600, 602 ;' Bishop of 
Albany, 644 ; committee on College, 
651; at consecration, 68S : at re- 
union, 700 ; alluded to, 710. 

Doane, Mrs., 549, 564. 

Donations, 335, 385. 

" Doncaster pattern," 625. 

Door open, 53. 

Downes, Eev. Jonathan, 301. 

Dudlev, Governor, 21. 

Dutch; 62, 127, 331. 

E 

Earliest statesmen, 164, 704. 
Earnest wishes, 309. 
Ears tingle, 281. 

Education on Christian principles. 446. 
Effects of Gov. Bass, ] 99 : of Mrs. 

Talbot. 248: of Dr. Yliarton, 415. 
Eight bells, 622. (see Bells). 



I X D E X . 



731 



Election, (see Ballots). 
Elegy to Mrs. Wliarton, 345. 
Elizabetlitown, 57, 59, 64, 78, 85, 94, 

128, 132, 246, 254, 296, 382, 531, 534, 

605, 683. 

Ellis, Eowland, 114, 169, 186, 203, 210, 

230-233, 236, 262, 264. 
Elsingburgli, 9. 

English and American bells, 618. 
English settlement, 7, 
Engstrom, Sir A. B., 695. 
Episcopal chair, (see "Bishop's Chair") 
E]3iscopal residence, (see See-House). 
Episcopal throne, (see " Bishop's 

Throne"). 
European inhabitants, 127. 
Evans, Eev. Evan, 23, 128, 134, 142. 
Evans, Eev. 290. 
Evensong, 492. 566, 567. 
Exhibit of work, 313. 
ExtemjDore prayer. 378. 
Extraordinary storm, 268. 

F 

Fac-simile of seal, 247 ; of signature, 

185. 
Faldstool, 578. 

Financial condition, 461, 567, 579, 
607, 610, 615, 617, 540, 658. 

First, English settlement, 7, 8, 9 ; 
■'house of entertainment," 8; min- 
ute in Friends' book, ; Friends' 
Monthly Meetings, 9 ; recorded bur- 
ial, 9; carpenter, 9: names, 9; 
book of minutes, 5, 214 ; ship, 10 ; 
Friends' meeting-house, 10 : bury- 
ing place for Christians, 15 ; Friends' 
burying ground, 10; missionary of 
S. P. G-., 20 ; Churchwarden's ap- 
peal, 44, 214 ; town olEcers, 14 ; 
sermon in Church, 39 ; entries in 
Eegister, 29, 43 ; American See, 
100 ; Episcopal residence, 100 ; Bish- 
op on this continent, 168 ; daily ser- 
vice, 189 ; Cathedral report, 587 ; 
bequest to Church, 96 ; charter, 130 ; 
occupant of " palace," 106; school- 
master, 114 ; history, 127 ; silver, 
694; libraries, 157, 159; plan for 
American Union, 164; bell, 215; 
communion, 429 ; parish clerk, 223; 
sexton, 221 ; prayer book, 237 ; 
election of a Bishop, 348 ; parochial 
reports, 368 ; diagram, 372 ; Sun- 
day School, 383 ; Parish School, 
228 ; ordination, 402 ; report of 
Bishop of Doane, 421 ; enlargement, 



297 : pledge system, 439 ; prospec- 
tus of St. Marv's Hall, 446 ; princi- 
pal of St. Mary's Hall, 447. 
Fisk, Eev. G. McC, 658, 675, 690, 702, 
706. 

Five thousand dollars, 609. 
Flagon, 496. 

Flame, congregation in, 104. 
Flaxley, in Gloucestershire, 133, 136. 
Flowers, never without, 699. 
Flving machines, 285. 
Font, 226, 372, 400, 435, 465, 508. 
Fort Anne, 58, 65, 66, 71, 83, 84, 103, 
178. _ 

Four bishops consecrated, 402. 

Fourth of July, 312, 343, 422, 652, 670, 

Foxonians, ( see Quakers.) 

Frampton, Bishop, 136, 180, 432. 

Franklin, Gov. Wm., sketch, ap- 
pointed Gov., marriage, at Burling- 
ton, 276 ; inducts Mr. Odell, 291 ; 
thanks to, 296 ; contribution, 297, 
300 ; removes to Perth Amboy, 304 
a prisoner, 312 ; library burnt, 313: 
returns to England, receives grant 
and pension, marries again, personal 
appearance, character, habits, death, 
313 ; alluded to, 511. 

Franklin, Mrs. AVm., 276, 297 ; death, 
313; alluded to, 711. 

Freight, travelling as, 445. 

Friends, purchased lands, 7, 8 ; month- 
ly meeting settled, 9 ; book of min- 
utes, 9 ; burying ground, 10 ; first 
meeting-house, 10, 11; marriage 
certificate, 12, 13; friendly to the 
church people, 294; (see Quakers). 

Frost, Eev. Adolph, Latin ode, 510 ; 
Biblia Sacra, 517; death, 517; al- 
luded to, 519. 

Fulham MSS., alluded to in Preface, 6, 

Fund for maintaining minister, 304,. 

G 

Gal-Knippers, 94. 

George, First, 123. 

Gibbes, Mrs., 389. 

Glad to see Mr. Talbot, 170. 

Glebe, 25, 136, 189, 235, 242, 261, 31&. 

Goldsborough, Eev. E. L., 636, 637, 
638, 641, 678, 684, 690, 706. 

Good Friday, how kept in Dr. "Whar- 
ton's time, 405. 

Gospel ridiculed, 119. 

Governor needed, 77. 

Governor's pew, 372, 394. 

Gown, 289. 



732 



INDEX. 



Great need of a Bishop, 26, 

Great weight removed," 612, 617. 
Greatest ol)stacle, 80. 
Griffith, AVilliam, sketch of, 396 ; opin- 
ion, 359 ; burial, 396 ; 397. 
Grubb, Edward B., treasurer, 584, 
600, 609, 612, 614, 617 : death, 642. 
Guild organized, 644. 



H 

Habitable for a bishop, 107. 

Haight. Rev. B. I., 474, 483, 484, 485, 
487, 490. 

Hall, Eev. Eichard D., 395. 

Hall, St. Mary's, prospectus, 446 ; 
firet Principal, 447; plan, 451; 
ready, 452 ; established, 453 ; in- 
creased, 464 ; corner stone of chapel 
laid, 483; Bidding Prayer, 488; 
consecration of chapel, 490 ; even- 
song, 492 ; increased, 494 ; enlarged, 
'649 ; commencement, 659 ; saluta- 
tion at Riverside, 670 ; re-union, 
698-702 : principals, 722; alluded 
to, 495, 527, 530, 538, 539, 550, 563, 
565, 568, 585, 586, 588, 597, 638, 
645, 649, 657, 663, 664, 668, 669, 
670, 671, 687, 694, 695, 697, 698, 
706,708. 

Hanckel, Christian, 377, 391; John 
Michael, 373, 391. 

Hancock, Daniel, 367. 

Hawkins, Rev. E., 495. 

Hawks, Eev. Dr. F. L., 6, 127, 212. 

Headstones, 167, 255, 257, 259, 268, 
336, 367, 373, 385, 387, 389, 391, 
403, 423, 444, 471, 512, 585, 649, 
674, 704. 

Heath, Rev. Levi, 327, 329. 

Heathcote, Col., 77, 104. 

Hills, Rev. Dr. Geo, M., rector, 653 ; 
sketch, chaplain, 654 ; lecturer, 655 ; 
instituted, 655 ; doctorated, 659 ; ser- 
mon, 672 ; dean, 677 ; alluded to, 
656, 657, 658, 662, 669, 672, 674, 
678, 679, 685, 688, 689, 691, 694, 
700, 702, 704, 706, 710. 

^' History cannot parallel it," 41. 

History of the Church, bv Gov. Bass, 
127. 

History of the Church, bv Dr. Hills, 
711. 

Hobart, Bishop, 338, 375, 513. 
Hoffman, Rev. C. F., 506, 527, 529, 

531, 558, 559. 
Hofihian, Rev. E. A., 528, 529, 531, 



532, 552, 554-558, 560 ; elected rec- 
tor, sketch, 605 : accepts, 606 ; em- 
ploys assistant, 609 ; financial state- 
ment, 610; removes debt, 612; re- 
signs, 613; resignation accepted, 
614; inscription on bells, 630; let- 
ters from, 615-618, 620, 632, alluded 
to, 623, 626, 627, 631, 633 ; at bene- 
diction, 706, 710, 711. 

Holbrook, Rev, John, 186, 206, 242. 

Holv Communion, first in Burlington, 
429. 

Holv Table, 213, 372, 381, 400, 435. 

508, 705, 711. 
Holv Vessels, 133, 134, 213, 245, 261 

384, 465, 466, 496, 497, 502, 694, 711. 
"Home, Sweet Home," 711. 
Homilizing, 125, 189. 
Honest and indefatigable, 101. 
Hoods, Academic, 574, 687, 688. 
Horwood, Rev. N., 207, 210, 212, 

236, 237, 241, 242, 244. 
House, first in America for Bishop, 

100 ; on fire, 107 ; torn to pieces, 

169 ; repaired, 172 ; burnt, 265 ; (see 

See-House). 
Huddv, Hugh, 21, 22, 31,32, 105, 106, 

133; 214-225, 706. 
Hulme, James C., 472. 
Hulme, John, 403. 
Humble petition, 154. 
Hunloke, Edward, 11, 13, 15, 16, 23, 

181. 

Hunter, Gov., 100, 101, 104, 106, 107, 
113, 136, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144, 
145, 146, 147, 163, 173, 194, 302. 

Hvde, Rev. Prof., 496, 512, 528, 558, 
587, 655, 656, 662, 689, 700, 706. 



I 

Incorporation of Academy, 328, 331, 
332, 335 ; church, 130 ; college, 485. 

Increased facilities for travel, 267, 
285. 

Increased pastoral labors, 436. 
Indians, 8, 9, 26, 64, 173. 
" Indiflerent well," 156. 
Induction, 291. 

Ingoldsbv, Lieut. Gov., 67, 68, 69, 70, 
71, 73,' 75, 78, 79, 80, 88, 89, 90, 95, 
97, 100, 104, 130,133, 144. 

" Inherited depravitv," 467. 

"In Memoriam," 212, 415, 471, 496, 
510, 585, 631, 638, 690. 

Institution of Rectors, 572, 607, 655. 



INDEX. 



733 



J 

Jacobites, 11, 20; (see Xonjnrors.) 
"Jacobites in the Jersevs,'' 139,141, 
143. 

James, Second. 11. 
Jaques, Eev. P. L., 402, 690. 
.Jarvis, the widoAv of Bishop, 398. 
Jegou, Pierre, 8. 

Johnson, Eev. Dr. S. E., 622 ; letter 
from, 665-667. 

Johnson, Eer. W. A., elected rector, 
sketch, 622; presents "Minute/' 
628; report, 637; deeds to St. Bar- 
nabas', 639; fund for school, 642; 
guild, 644 ; legacy, 645 ; resigns, 
646 ; resignation accepted, 647 ; 
rules for bells, 651 : resolution in 
Convention, 653 ; lecture quoted, 8j 
266 ; alluded to, 689, 710. 



K 

Keith, Eev. George, 13, 14; receives 
orders, 18; "Memorial," 18; first 
missionary, 20 ; journal, 20; preaches 
in Town House, 22 ; meets clergy, 
22 ; account of church, 23 ; converts 
Quakers, 27 ; baptizes Wheeler's 
family, 29 ; lodges at Philadelphia, 
31 ; letters from, 29, 45, 46 ; preaches 
first sermon in church at Burling- 
ton, 39, 40; parts with Talbot, 55;. 
arrives home, 55 ; alluded to, 128, 
175, 187, 337, 429. 

Keith, Sir Wm., 179, 186, 191, 290. 

Keithian Quakers, 46, 48, 50, 51.. 

"Kent," ship, 7. 

Kinsey, John, 7, 9. 

Knighthood, 675, 695. 



L 

Lambeth MSS., 6. 

Land or Lands, first purchasers in 
West Jersey, 7 ; Burlington laid 
out, 7, 8 ; settled, 8, 9 ; Friends 
burving ground, 10 ; meetinghouse, 
10,11; Tadiam's, 11, 12; garden, 
17 ; Christian burying place, 15, 
16 ; enlarged, 21, 22 ; erecting 
Church, 31, 32 ; Bishop's house, 
153, 291, 302 ; Stonev Brook,. 335,. 
706. 

Large number baptized, 272.. 
Latin " Meditationes," 509* 



"iaws Deo."' 227, 228, 230, 236, 237, 
502. 

Laus Deo apud Americanos,'' 43. 

Lawrence, Capt. James, 319; Hon. 
John, 296, 319. 

Laws subverted, 119. 

Lavmen marrv, 256, 

Lay readers, 233, 385. 

Lease for Academy, 332. 

Leasv Point, 8. 

Leciter, Thomas. 96. 134, 432. 

Lecturn, 508, 705 ; for Hall, 702. 

Leeds, Daniel, 10, 12, 23, 56, 98, 99, 
106, 130, 215, 220, 222, 225, 226, 230. 

Legacy, (see Bequests.) 

Letter commendatory, 63. 

Letters from Gov. Bass, 101, 140 ;, 
Gov. Burnet. 188; C. Campbell, 
256, 257, 258, 264, 265, 267, 271, 
272, 274, 275, 276, 277, 280, 287;. 
Mrs. Campbell, 340; Castle, 622, 
625, 629, 630, 632 ; Clergy, 121, 274, 
281 ; Cornburv, 75 ; Cummings,. 
207 ; Churchwardens, 44, 110, 119, 
143, 169, 203, 242, 243, 264, 339; 
Coxe, 238; Coxe and Trent, 172; 
Ellis, 114, 147, 152, 156, 169, 203; 
Evans, 291 ; Evans and Talbot, 
107 ; Henderson, 188 ; Gov. Hunter, 
101, 104, 113, 139 ; HofiTman, 606, 
610, 612, 613, 615, 617, 618, 620, 632 ; 
Holbrook, (seeHolbrook;) Horwood, 
(see Horwood;) Dr. Jackson, 659 ; 
Dr. Johnson, 665; Keith, (see 
Keith ;) Sir Wm. Keith, 186, 191, 
204; Lindsav, 253; Mears and Co., 
625, 626, 629 ; Col. Morris, 80, 89, 
103; Thorowgood Moore, 64, 66, 
71 ; Xeau, 87 ; Odell, (see Odell;) 
Col. Quarv, 78 ; Secretary S. P. G., 
140, 152 ; \Stubbs, 190 ; Talbot, (see 
Talbot;) L'rmston, (see Urmston ;) 
Vesey, 188; Weyman, 251; Wil- 
kinson, 205 ; Wliarton, (see Whar- 
ton;) Bishop AVhite, 378; Eobert 
W^alker, 152 ; Dr. Walker, 687. 

Letters, pattent, 97; intercepted, 152; 
seized, 308. 

Liabilities, 461, 567, 579, 607, 610, 
615, 617, 640, 658. 

Library, 157, 159, 160, 197, 421, 705. 

Lightning, Church struck, 502 ; a sec- 
ond time, 628. 

"Lilies of the Valley," 660. 

Lines-, (see Poetry.) 

List of, Eectors, 715 ; officiating, 715 : 
Principals of Academv, 507 ; Prin- 
cipals of Hall, 722 ; liectors of Col- 



734 INDEX. 



lege, 722 ; Priests of St. Barnabas', 
718 ; AVardens, 71G ; Treasurers, 
717 ; Clerks, 718 ; Organists, 718 ; 
Conventions, 719 ; Ordinations, 719 ; 
Subscribers, 726. 

London bridge, 17. 

Long Branch, 350. 

Lord Bishop of Lichfield, 662. 

Lord Bishop of London, 53, 69, 135, 
136, 192, 204, 205, 207, 282, 308. 

Lord Bishop of Quebec, 444. 

Lord Mayor of London, 366. 

Lot for Bishop Odenheimer, 591, 595. 

Lots, the Talbot, 181, 583, 653. 

Lottery, a, 275, 292. 

" Love thee too well," 459. 

Lovelace, Lord, 86, 87. 

Lovett, Jonathan, 222, 230, 231, 236. 

Loyalist poetry, 310, 311. 

Lyndon, William, 299. 



M 

Mcllvaine, Kt. Eev. C. P., born, 390 ; 
baptized, 391 ; founds S. S., 383 ; 
candidate, 385, 391, lay reader, 385; 
letters of, 390, 392 ; marriage, 390 ; 
atN. J. convention, 453 ; death, 395. 

Mcllvaine, the Misses, 622, 631, 632, 
633, 634, 635, 638, 639, 640, 649. 

Magistrates of Burlington, 8, 14. 

Marriage, Robt. Wheeler, 12; Row- 
land Ellis, 156; John Talbot, 251 ; 
C. Campbell, 257; baronet, 273; 
Gov. Franklin, 276 ; Adam Shep- 
pard, 288; Wm. Frazer, 295; J. 
Odell, 301 ; banns, 301 ; Wm. Brad- 
ford, 337; Dr. Wharton, 350; C. 
P. Mcllvaine, 390; R. D. Hall, 
395; C. Colton, 402; Prof. Hyde, 
496; G-. McC. Fisk, 675. 

•• Martha," flie-boat, 9. 

Maryland, 41, 43. 

Master of the chimes, C39, 652, 653. 
[Matinagcom Island, 8. 
Mattinecunk Island, 15. 
Medical Society, 303. 
Medicine, Dr. Odell, 305. 

Meditationes," 509. 
Meeting house, 10, II. 
Melancholy thoughts, 93. 
Memorial of Keith, 18 ; of Peter 

Evans, 187, 204, 205. 
Memorial Service, 553. 
" Methodistic emissaries," 300. 
Methodists, 468, 4GU. 
"Michael," 525. 



Midnight carols, 501. 

Miles, Rev. Samuel, of Boston, 21, 74, 

95, 129, 216, 217. 
Million friends of the Church, 283. 
Milnor, Thomas, 643. 
Missionaries, S. P. G., 20, 22. 
" Missionary, The," 498. 
Moderation, 90-92. 
Monthly meeting. Friends, 9. 
Monuments, (see Headstones.) 
Moore, Bishop, 349. 
Moore, Rev. David C, 587, 590, 595. 
Moore, Rev. Thorowgood, 64, 66, 74, 

103, 132. 
More work, 174. 
Morris, Col., 88, 89, 163. 
Morris, Margaret, 321, 496. 
Mount Holly, 259, 272, 277, 280, 292, 

295, 325, 331, 381, 395, 415, 430, 432, 

521. 

Mourning for Washington, 350 ; for 
Dr. Wharton, 406 ; BishoD W^iite, 
443. 

Music with Daily Prayers, 517. 
" Mutual love," 267. 



Neale, Thomson, 298, 367. 

Newark, 291, 327, 349, 350, 382, 417, 

516, 534, 597, 641. 
New Castle, 7, 37, 40, 49, 93. 
New Church, 484, 493, 500, 505, 508. 
New Jersey case, 501. 
New Translation, 195. 
New York, 26, 29, 48, 55, 76, 81, 133, 

142, 174, 250, 319, 331, 359, 360, 
375, 445, 474, 485, 504, 527, 531, 534, 
651. 

Nicholson, Gov., 28, 31, 35, 36, 39, 40, 
44, 45, 51, 55, 59, 60, 89, 101, 129, 
214. 

No minister, 203, 318. 

No news from Brooke and Moore, 83. 

Nonjurors, 3,- 11, 30, 139, 140, 141, 

143, 144, 145, 152, 168, 178, 179, 
186, 187, 188, 204, 205, 206, 208, 
211, 247, 675. 

Not Jacobites, 140, 144. 
Not much progress, 101. 
Not the Queen's fault, 89. 
Nova Cesarea, 7, 23, 54, 675. 

O 

Oath of Allegiance, 11, 314. 

Oath of the King's Sovereignty, 314. 



INDEX. 



735 



Obstructions, 25S. 

Ode for King's birth-day, 310. 

Odell, Kev. Jonathan, appointed to 
Burlington, sketch, inducted, 291; 
letters from, 292, 294, 297, 300, 302, 
305, 307, 314, 316, 318, 320 ; church 
out of repair, corrects mivStake, 292 ; 
memorandum, 293 ; Quakers friend- 
ly, 294 ; Convention in New Bruns- 
wick, 295 ; solicit charter, secretary, 
296 ; enlarges Churcli, 297 ; acknow- 
ledgments, 297 ; new bell, 297 ; at- 
tests register, 299; "jNlethodistic 
Emissaries," 300 ; buries Mr. 
Downes, 301 ; marries, 301 ; banns, 
301 ; declines salary, 301 ; revenue 
from lots, 302 ; medical society, 
303 ; practices medicine, 303, 305 ; 
children, 305 ; charter of Medical 
Society, 306 ; inculcates peace, 307 ; 
letters seized, 308 ; earnest wishes, 
309 ; song, 310 ; ode, 311 ; paroled, 
312; exhibit of work, 313; refugee, 
314; secret chamber," 321 ; averse 
to independence, 316 ; friendliness 
of vestry, 318; address, 319; goes 
to England, 319 ; still rector, 320 ; 
prosperity, 321 ; to his wife, 322 ; 
death, 323; alluded to by Mrs. 
Campbell, 341 ; alluded to, 394, 694. 

Odenheimer, Kt. Kev. W. H., " no 
stranger," gift from, 563 ; at Bp. 
Doane's funeral, 528 ; ballots for, 
557 ; elected bishop, sketch, 558 ; 
accepts, 559 ; consecration, 560 ; 
first Episcopal address, 561 ; pasto- 
ral letters, 562, 578 ; in charge of 
St. Mary's, 566, 604 ; resigns, 567 ; 
Eiverside secured, 568 ; faldstool, 
578 ; head of cathedral, 587 ; pew 
and lot, 591; acknowledgment, 595, 
645 ; invited to rectorship, 603 ; 
nominates, 605, 654; graduates 
twenty-five, 638 ; organizes convo- 
cation, 649 ; the Hall enlarged, 649 ; 
recommends endowment, 650 ; ex- 
aming chaplains, 654 ; divinity de- 
partment revived, 655; institutes 
rectors, 572, 607, 655 ; extract from 
sermon, 656 ; entertains Bp. Sel- 
wyn, 662 ; accident, 665 ; congratula- 
tions, 666 ; appoints dean, 649, 677 ; 
calls special convention, 677 ; fare- 
wells, 678, 680 ; response of com- 
mittee, 684 ; at Benediction of old 
Church, 706 ; alluded to, 658, 660, 
661, 668, 671, 675, 679, 709-711, 719, 
721,726. 



Offerings of the Church, 421, 438, 453, 
504, 662. 

Officers of the Town, 14. 

Official communications from Eng- 
land, 325; 

Officiating in St. Mary's Church, 715. 

Ogden, Eev. Uzal, 348, 349. 

Ogilby, Kev. Frederick, 477, 529. 

Oldest missionary, 162, 179, 188, 209. 

Old Style, 6, 7, 10, 268. 

Only remedy, 121. 

Opinion of Wm. Griffith, 359. 

Oration on Washington, 352. 

" Orchard, Little," 507. . 

Ordinations, 719. 

Organ, 368, 386, 404, 444, 450, 492, 

503, 668. 
Organists, 718. 
Orthodox minister, 263, 304. 

Out of Quantum," 193. 



P 

Palace of John Tatham, 17, 106, 136. 

Papists, 27, 78, 259. 

Parish clerks, 386, 718. 

Parish dispersed, 210. 

Parish School, 114, 152, 156 ; for girls, 

493 ; for boys, 503, 609, 642, 676, 

689, 705, 706. 
Parochial reports, 368, 723. 
Paroled, 103, 308, 309, 312, 315. 
Parsonage, 264, 350 ; (see rectory). 
Parting of Keith and Talbot, 55. 
Pastoral letters, 470, 562, 578. 
Peal, (see "Bells.") 
Pealing first time, 640. 
Penn, William, 33, 78, 102. 
People sincere, hearty and religious, 

277. 

Perry, Kev. Dr. W. S., 6. 

Persecutions, 66, 71, 74, 78, 80, 87, 
145, 147, 192, 206, 321, 498. 

Perth Amboy, 128. 

Petition to have Mr. Talbot, 52. 

Pew for Bishop, 591. 

Pew-rents re-arranged, 398. 

Philadelphia, 10, 14, 36, 40, 45, 47-50, 
78, 93, 94, 110, 123, 128, 134, 142, 
153, 155, 156, 160, 171, 174, 175, 176, 
177, 178, 187, 188, 192, 196, 204, 205, 
209, 210, 211, 213, 238, 246, 247,250, 
256, 259, 260, 267, 270, 271, 275, 276, 
285, 289, 337, 347, 348, 393, 424, 477, 
534, 558, 559, 561, 622, 630, 651, 655, 
662, 666. 

Piper, Michael, 156, 157, 213, 232. 



73^ 



INDEX. 



Plan for American Union, 164; for 
new Church, 489. 

Pledge system, 439 ; revived, 641 662. 

"Plucking out the right eye," 512. 

Poetrv, by Elizabeth Graeme, 290 ; Dr. 
Odel], 310, 311, 322,; Dr. Whar- 
ton, 345, 350 ; a former resident, 
418; Mr. Winslow, 457-460; Mr. 
Frost, 510 ; " Z," 492 ; Mr. Lyle, 
566 ; Mr. Fisk, 675. 

Point House, (see See-Houvse.) 

Portlock, Rev. Edward, 128. 

Portrait of Keith, 429; Campbell, 
289 ; Bishop Doane, 659, 699. 

Post offices, 152, 250. 

Prayer, on the death of Washington, 
355 ; during erection of Church, 
500 ; during restoration of old 
Church, 703; before election, 678. 

Presbyterians, 42, 49, 51, 61, 62, 292, 
395, 408, 468. 

Presentment dismissed, 501. 

Prime benefactor, 41, 131. 

Princeton, 303, 316, 391, 393. 

Princeton College, 391, 393. 

Principals of Academy, 507. 

Principals of the Hall, 722. 

Principles, will not sacrifice, 314. 

Prisoner in Fort Anne, 66. 

Proclamations, 252. 

Profanity punished, 255. 

Project for new church, 484. 



Q 

Quakers, 7-14, 18, 19, 22, 24, 27, 28, 
29, 33, 38, 40, 41-44, 49, 51, 52, 56- 
59, 117, 120, 125-127, 135, 137, 153, 
190, 213, 238, 243, 257-259, 280, 
284, 292, 295. 

Quary, Col., 78, 87, 89, 105, 133, 134. 

Quebec, Bp. of, 444. 

" Quid agitur in America," 147. 



R 

Reception of the bells, 634, 

Rectors, list of, 715. 

Rectorship vacant, 558. 

Rectory, bought, 671 ; (see Parsonage.) 

Refugee, 321. 

Register, Episcopal, inferred in Pre- 
face, 5. 

Register, parish, 5, 6 ; quoted from, 

29, 43, 305. 
Rejected communication, 482. 



Relation with St. Barnabas', 608. 
" Remains of Dr. Wharton," 418. 
Remarks on the special convention, 
498. 

Reminiscences of Dr. Wharton, 403 ; 

a former resident, 418. 
Remonstrance of Assembly against 

Cornbury, 81. 
Remonstrance and petition, 110. 
Removals, 275. 
Repeal of two provisos, 441. 
Repeal, Royal, 102. 
Request to consecrate, 426, 505. 
Resolutions, 351, 397, 473, 477, 526, 

532, 538, 554, 577. 
Response to Bishop Odenheimer's 

farewell, 684. 
Restoration of old Church, 703. 
Restrictions, 16. 
Retrospection, Diocesan, 439. 
Re-union at St. Mary's Hall, 698. 
Revolution, American, 307. 
Riverside, 350, 499, 500, 512, 527, 548, 

565, 566, 568, 670, 671, 694. 
Robardet, Mrs., 645. 667. 
Roe, Rev. S., 323, 324, 325. 
Rogers, William A., 599. 
Roman Catholic, 455, (see Papists.) 
Royal charter, 97. 
Royal repeal, 102. 

Ruin and repairs of See-House, 172. 



S 

Sacrilege in Trinity Church, N. Y., 
118. 

Saint Anne's, 96, 130, 215, 261, 286, 
293 294 429 507. 

SaFnt 'Barnabas, 519, 520, 523, 551, 
566, 588, 593, 595, 596, 597, 608, 
629, 635, 637, 638, 639, 641, 654, 
665, 678, 721. 

Saint James,' 246, 247, 248, 294. 

Salaries, 46, 47, 241, 251, 269, 301, 
569, 571, 598, 606, 653. 

Salutation at Riverside, 670. 

Scarborough, Rt. Rev. John, elected 
bishop, 682 ; his remarks on, 682, 
683 ; accepts, 685 ; consecrated, 688 ; 
remarks on, 694; resides in Tren- 
ton, first Episcopal Address, 695 ; 
benediction of old church, 706, 709, 
710. 

Schoolmaster, 114, 175. 
Scotland, 14, 141, 254, 323, 711. 
Seabury, Samuel, signs address, 285 ; 
consecrated, ordains, 323 ; ditto, 325. 



I X D E X . 



737 



Secretary of State, 6. 

Secret chamber, 321, 

See. first American. 100. 

See-Hou?e, 90. 92. 100. 101, 105, 106, 
107, lOS. 113. 122, 136, 145, 153, 
169, 171, 172. 173. 174. 175. 177, 
238, 239. 240. 255,_256, 265, 266, 281. 

Selwyn's. Bi>liop, visit, 662. 

Senior Presbyter, 411. 

Sentence of consecration, 426 ; of de- 
position, 512. 

Sermons, extracts from, 244, 289. 427, 
535,541,553,656,672. 

Services for tipper part of city pro- 
posed, 501. 

Seven clergy onlv, 23. 

Sliarpe, Eev, Jolm, 56, 57, 64. 65, 70. 
103, 337. 

Shaver, Eev. Daniel, 672. 

Ship, "Shield,'' 10. 

Shrewsbury, 36, 45, 282, 521. 

Shrove Sunday, 221. 

Signatures of Attestation, 299. 

Silver, fsee Altar Vessels.) 

Six weeks' voyage, 20. 

Smith, Samuel, 7, 8, 163. 

Smith, William, 380. 

Societv for Propagating the Gospel, 
17, 20, 21. 22, 56, 64. 83, 85, 87, 89, 
90, 92, 93^ 100, 101, 104, 106-110, 
113, 114, 125, 139, 140. 143, 144, 
146, 147, 152, 153, 154, 156, 161, 
162, 169, 170, 172, 174, 176, 189, 
191, 193, 203, 206, 207, 208. 210, 
212, 238, 241-244, 251, 253, 254, 
256. 257, 258, 264, 265, 267, 271, 
272. 274, 275. 276, 277, 280, 281, 
287, 291, 292, 294, 297, 300, 301, 
302, 305, 307, 309, 314, 316, 318, 
363, 429, 430, 432, 495, 675. 

''Sola Deo Gloria," 214. 

Soliciting ten years, 109. 

" Somebody must answer," 84. 

Song for fishing partv, 310. 

S. P. G., MSS.. 6. 

Spraggs, Eev. Samuel, 325. 

Stages, second and third line, 285. 

Stamp Act. 2S7, 288. 

Sianlev, Miss, 701, 702. 

State of Church, 306, 334. 

Stealing, penalty for, 256. 

Steuben, Baron, 319. 

Stocks, punishment for swearing, 255. 

Stoney Brook farm, 335. 

Storm, extraordinary, 268. 

Straying sheep return, 273. 

Style, change of, 268. . 



Subscriptions, 10, 15, 21, 22, 29, 30, 
31. 215, 269. 270, 324, 328,331, 368, 
503. 615, 7(4. 726. 

Suftragvais .^i;g2'estGd, 278. 

Sunday in Burlington. 668. 

Sunday Scliool. organized, prospects 
from, 383 ; alluded to, 703, 705, 706. 

Sun dial, 221. 

Sunk in the sea, 74. 

Sweden, clergy of, 63. 

Swedes, 7, 127. 

Sweedish, 142. 174. 



T 

Table of marriages, 26. 

Tables of ballots, i see Ballots;^ ; of re- 
ports, 1 see Abstract i. 

Talbot, ^Jrs. Ann, 6; will, death, bui^- 
ial, 246; effects, 248; gift to Perth 
Ambov. 245; sermon at funeral, 
244: alluded to, 214, 241, 251. 

Talbot. Eev. John, inscription to, 3; 
mentioned, 5 ; chaplain, associate of 
Keith, appointed missionary, 21 ; 
in Burlington. 22 ; lays corner stone 
of, 32, 36: returns monev. 215: in 
Philadelphia. 22. 153 ; Chester, 40 : 
account of church. 23 : letters from, 
26, 32, 35. 4ti. 53. 55. 64, 65. 77, S3, 
84, 90, 93; 107, 109 ; 116, 125, 141, 
144, 146,' 153, 154, 170, 174, 176, 
189, 192,' 193; goes to England. 64, 
161; arrives from England, 20, 22, 
74, 170 ; records of baptisms, 29, 
43, 257 ; wanted every where, 45 ; 
speciallv in Burlington, 52; stipend, 
46; character, 47, 92 ;_ 101, 143, 
152, 211 ; fixes at Burlington, 53 ; 
parts Avith Keith, 55 ; loses horse, 
58; the }.lohawks, 59; in England, 
64, 65, 161, 168; buys house, 105; 
honest and indefatigable, 101 ; me- 
morial, 109; petition, 154; address 
to Queen, 116 ; ditto to Gov. Nich- 
olson, 119,121; soliciting ten years, 
109 ; calling twenty years, 146 ; sick 
and disheartened, 125 ; accused, 
139, 140; answers accusation, 144; 
a VVilliamite, 141 ; a truly pious 
and Apostolic person, 143 ; disaf- 
fection, 152 ; supplies Philadelphia, 
153; cannot desert, 154; revises 
catalogue, 157 ; library, 159, 160 ; 
sells land, 160 ; receives interest, 
161; consecrated, 168; welcomed 



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home, 170 ; more Avork, 174; com- 
plained of, 178, 187, 188; gifts to 
successors, 180; signature, 185; 
a Bishop, 179, 188, 191, 204, 675; 
daily service, 189 ; denies jnrisdic- 
tion, 192; ''out of quantum," 193; 
never had salary, 251 ; to " sur- 
cease," 203, 211 ; out with Welton, 
205, 211 ; marriage, 251 ; " the 
greatest advocate." 208; still in 
Burlington, 210 :Dr. Hawks' opin- 
ion, 212 ; death, 211 ; " in memo- 
riam," 212; widow, 214, 241, 245, 
246, 248 ; Episcopal seal, 247 ; pro- 
phetic words, 33, 307 ; alluiied to, 
429, 675, 704. 

Tatham, John, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 106; 
John (2d), 105,106; Mrs. Eliza- 
beth, 21, 107 ; Mrs Mary, 107. 

Tetiison, Archbishop, 17, 161, 188. 

Tenths, 60. 

Thanks of the Vestry, 635, 672. 
Theological school recommended, 422. 
Thirteen ministers, 56. 
Thirty-nine Articles, 183. 657. 
Thom^as, Gabriel, his " History," 17 ; 

his " History" alluded to, 106. 
Three hundred pupils, 494. 
Throne, Episcopal, 508, 663, 675, 693. 
Tory-hunters, 321. 
" Touch and go," 55. 
Tower designed for a chime, 618. 
Transportation, 250. 
Treasurers, 717. 

Trent, William, 141, 172, 177, 216. 
Trenton, 6', 175, 238, 255, 289, 294. 295, 

382, 398, 401, 696. 
Trinity Church, New York, 118, 337, 

504, 529, 535 622. 
Trinity College, 401, 654, 659, 689, 694. 
Trustees, 357, 485, 529. 
Twenty-two thousand dollars, 640. 
Two burials in one grave, 391. 
Two hundred pounds, 29. 
Two non-juring bishops, 204. 



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Unauthorized accounts, 477. 
United supplication, 678. 
Unlicensed persons, act against,, 16. 
Unpublished MSS., 307. 
Urgent communication, 591. 
Urmston, Rev. .Fohn, dismissal, 175 ; 

raving. 177, 187 ; letter sent to Bp. 

of London, 190. 



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Vandyke, Rev. Henry, sketch, rector, 
character, manners, views, 331 ; 
signs lease, 334 ; afflictions, 337 ; 
resigns, friend of Bishop Hobart, 
devotion during yellow fever, por- 
trait, wife, children, grand-children, 
338 ; alluded to, 339, 340, 341 

Van Rensselaer, Dr. C, note, 468, 469 ; 
discourse, 541. 

Verge of sixtv, Mr. Campbell on 
the, 277. 

Vesey, Rev. William, 23, 104, 128, 
178, 188. 

Vessels, (see Holy Vessels.) 

Vestry, extraordinary action of, 477 ; 
reject commimication of parish- 
ioners, 482. 

Vestrymen to commune, 233. 

Vigorous letter, 376. 

Virginia, 29, 33, 35, 37-41, 43, 44, 46, 
51, 55, 67, 129, 138, 180, 239, 562. 

Visiting, district, 518. 



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Wade, Rev. John, 326, 327. 

"Waits," at Christmas, 501. 

Wallace, Joshua Maddox, 324, 330, 
332, 333, 334, 335, 343, 344, 349, 
351, 358, 363, 367, 370, 371 ; corpo- 
rator, 334, 335, 343, 344; lead- 
ing Iavman,349, 351, 358, 363, 367, 
377, 378, 382, 383, 385. 

Wallace, Rachel B., 494; Mrs. Tace, 
386 ; Mrs. Susan, 496. 

Walker, Rev. Robert, 139, 146, 152, 
231 ; Rev. Dr. W. S., 687. 

Wardens, list of, 716. 

Washington, Geo., 307, 319, 350, 351, 
352 

Watkinson, Paul, 160, 237, 267, 507. 

Watson, Rev. E. S., 396. 

Wedding day ode, 322. 

Welton, Rev. Robert, D. D., conse- 
crated, aids in consecration, 168; 
in Philadelphia, 187, 188, 204; com- 
plained of, 190, 191 ; disagrees with 
Talbot, 208 ; ordered to England, 
204; goes to Lisbon, dies. Episcopal 
seal, 205; tradition of, 206. 

Westland, Nathaniel, 15, 16, 21, 22, 
31, 32, 45, 53, 98, 99, 130, 214-216, 
218-227, 706. 



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Weyman, Kev, Bobert, witnesses sale, 
160; signs dismissal, 176; men- 
tioned, 241 ; wanted in Burlington, 
243 ; removes from Oxford, 244 ; 
reports, 250; letter, 251; death, 
253 ; family receive gratuity, 254 ; 
live in Point House, 255, 303. 

Wharton, Mrs. Ann, 350, 361, 411, 
423, 704. 

Wharton, Kev. Dr. Chas. H., sketch, 
342; certificate of American Philo- 
sophical Society, 347 ; in General 
Convention, on important commit- 
tees, 343; proposals from Burling- 
ton, 339 ; elected rector, 342 ; brings 
family, 343 ; bereavements, 344 ; 
elegy, 345 ; requested to officiate at 
Newark, 350 ; at Long Branch, 350 ; 
new parsonage, 350 ; marries again, 
350 , preaches on death of Washing- 
ton, 351 ; prayer on Washington's 
birthday, 355; burial fees, 357 ; elect- 
ed President Columbia College, 359 ; 
proposals accepted, 362; offices in 
the Diocese, 367 ; enlarges church, 
369 ; new pulpit, 370 ; letters to Dr. 
Croes, 374, 376 ; baptizes, etc., Chris- 
tian Hanckel, 377 ; extempore pray- 
er agitation, 378 ; letter from Bi;^hop 
White, 378; state of parish, 380; 
officiating at Mount Holly, 381; 
candidate for Episcopate, 382 ; Sun- 
day School, 383; circular, legacy, 
state of congregation, 384 ; assists at 
ordination, 402 ; death, 403; place 
of burial, 403, 704 ; reminiscences 
of, 403; a jurist's testimony, 407 ; 
Bishop Doane's opinion, 409 ; will, 
413; eflPects, 415; inscription de- 
signed, 415; memorial window to, 
415 ; grave, 704. 

Wheeler, Eobert, marriage, 13 ; sells 
land, 15. 22 ; feofiee, 21, 22, 31, 32; 

' family baptized, entertains clergy, 



29 ; first church warden, 45, 58, 74, 
96,98,99, 129, 130, 133,167, 214-229, 
706. 

Whipping post, 253, 256. 

White, Bishop, tradition of, 206 ; con- 
secrated, ordains, 326 ; conferred 
with, 327 ; vice-president, 347 ; 
preaches, 368 ; alluded to, 375, 378, 
extempore prayer, 378 ; confirms, 
380 ; ordains Charles P. Mcllvaine, 
392; presiding bishop, 402; buries 
Dr. Wharton, 403, 406 ; mourning 
for, 443. 

Whitefield, Rev. Geo., 300. 

Whittingham, Bishop, 397, 721, 726. 

Widow of Bishop Jarvis, 398; of Dr. 
Wharton, 423. 

Widows and Orphans of Clergy, 296, 
300. 

Wig, 289. 

William and Mary, 11. 

William, Third, 11, 17, 27, 

" Willing mind," ship, 9. 

Wills, alluded to, 6 ; Mr, Moore, 74 ; 
Mr. Brooke, 75 ; proved, 95 ; Thos. 
Leciter, 96; Bp. Frampion, 136; 
Archbp. Tenison, 161 ; Wm. Bndd, 
166; Gov. Bass, 194; Mrs. Talbot, 
246; Col. Coxe, 255; P. Baynton, 
259 ; T. Leeds, 261 ; Dr. Wharton, 
413 ; Mrs. Eobardet, 645, 667 ; Miss 
Swann, 686. 

Windows, Memorial, 212, 415, 471, 
585. 

Wmslow, Rev. B. D., sketch, 454; 
letter, 455; escapes Romanism, 456 ; 
poetic talent, poetry, 457, 458, 459 ; 
assistant, 464; labors, 465; death 
and burial, 467, 468, 469; corres- 
pondence about funeral, 468 ; obit- 
uary, 469; pastoral referring to, 
470; grave, memorial window, 471. 

Wreathing the portrait, 699. 



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